Dr James Ormrod
Senior Lecturer
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Applied Social Science
Falmer
Brighton
BN1 9PH
Telephone: +44 (0)1273 643488
+44 (0)1273 641141
Email: J.S.Ormrod@brighton.ac.uk
Power in Outer Space – 1 October 2011
This trans-disciplinary symposium provided a forum for academics, students and members of the public to discuss issues concerning social power and outer space.
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Research interests
James's research interests are in social movements and in the relationships human beings have with their environment and the universe in general. His own research has looked at activists campaigning to promote the human exploration, development and settlement of outer space. His ethnographic research has drawn extensively on psychoanalytic theory. In collaboration with Peter Dickens, he has developed a broader account of the relationship that human beings have with the universe, both historically and in contemporary society. This draws on and extends themes from environmental sociology and the sociology of science, and also retains a focus on the self and on social movements.
Profile
James first enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Essex in 1998. After completing his bachelor's degree in sociology he stayed on to take a master's degree in sociological research, and then a PhD in sociology. His doctoral research was a study into 'pro-space activism' supervised by Dr Eamonn Carrabine. He was awarded his PhD in 2006 after being examined by Prof Kevin Hetherington. James was a teaching fellow at Essex for a year after that, teaching core sociological theory and research methods, before moving to take up his appointment in Brighton in 2007.
Interests
- Social Movements
- Psychoanalysis
- Fantasy
- Humanist Marxism
- Environmental Sociology
- Sociology of Science
James is interested in supervising PhD students in sociology, and in particular those considering research in social movement studies, psychoanalytic sociology (especially psychoanalytic studies of fantasy), or the sociology of outer space.
Teaching
SS107 Sociological Imaginations;
SS122 Foundations of Sociology;
SS217 Theorising the Social World;
SS365 Sociological Analysis (Sociology of Social Movements);
SS329 Dissertations;
SSM15 Topics in Psychosocial Studies;
UC402 Subject Approaches and Practices;
UC502 Research Practices.
Publications and conference papers
ORMROD, JAMES (2011) 'Making room for the tigers and the polar bears': biography, phantasy and ideology in the voluntary human extinction movement Journal For The Psychoanalysis Of Culture & Society, 16 (2). pp. 142-161. ISSN 1088-0763
Ormrod, J.S. (2011) Practicing social movement theory in case study groups Teaching Sociology, 39 (2). pp. 190-199. ISSN 0092-055X
Ormrod, J.S. (2011) The use of case study sets in teaching social movement theory Teaching Sociology . ISSN 0092-055X (Submitted)
Dickens, Peter and Ormrod, J.S. (2010) Globalization of space: from the global to the galactic In: Turner, Bryan S., ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 531-553. ISBN 978-0-415-45808-5
Ormrod, J.S. and Dickens, Peter (2009) Cosmic society: towards a sociology of the universe Routledge, Abingdon and New York. ISBN 978-0-415-54592-1
Ormrod, J.S. (2009) Phantasy and social movements: an ontology of pro-space activism Social Movement Studies, 8 (2). pp. 115-129. ISSN 1474-2837
Dickens, Peter and Ormrod, J.S. (2008) Who really won the space race? Monthly Review, 59 . pp. 1-4. ISSN 0027-0520
Ormrod, J.S. (2007) Narcissistic phantasy in the pro-space movement In: Hope for Hard Times: Anxiety, Alienation and Activism (Annual Conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society), November 2007, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. (Unpublished)
Ormrod, J.S. and Dickens, P. A. (2007) Outer space and internal nature: towards a sociology of the universe Sociology, 41 (4). pp. 609-626. ISSN 0038-0385
Ormrod, J.S. (2007) Phantasy and social movements In: Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, April 2007, Manchester Metropolitan University. (Unpublished)
Ormrod, J.S. (2007) Pro-space activism and narcissistic phantasy Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 12 (3). pp. 260-278.
Dickens, P. and Ormrod, J.S. (2006) The outer spatial fix In: British International Studies Association Annual Conference, December 2006, Cork, Ireland. (Unpublished)
Ormrod, J.S. and Dickens, P. (2006) Social order, social disorder and the universe In: British Sociological Association Annual Conference, April 2006, Harrogate International Centre. (Unpublished)
Ormrod, J.S. (2005) Comment: the case for astrosociology University of Essex Graduate Journal of Sociology, 5 . pp. 104-106.
Ormrod, J.S. (2005) Pulsating network ethnography: capturing latency and visibility In: (Re)Creating: methodologies, practices, concepts, September 2005, Goldsmiths College, University of London. (Unpublished)
