{"id":8258,"date":"2026-02-16T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:34:09","slug":"clippings-february-16th-2026-tsp-media-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2026\/02\/16\/clippings-february-16th-2026-tsp-media-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Clippings | February 16th, 2026 | TSP Media Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Influential Indian sociologist Andre Beteille passed away at the age of 91. Beteille was a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Delhi since 2003 and was most known for his work on caste, land, and political authority in India. Gopa Sabharwal<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at the University of Delhi) noted that Beteille\u2019s work \u201cbroke away from viewing caste as the sole framework, instead highlighting the new alignments shaped by economic and political forces.\u201d This story was covered in the The Indian Express<\/em><\/a>, Eurasia Review<\/em><\/a> and the Deccan Herald<\/em><\/a>. The Indian Express<\/em><\/a> also ran a story focused on Beteille\u2019s scholarly legacy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Andre Beteille<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Brink<\/em><\/a> interviewed Japonica Brown-Saracino<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at Boston University) about her new book The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea<\/em><\/a>. In the book, Brown-Saracino describes how the world gentrification has evolved from describing neighborhood change (or, brick-and-mortar gentrification) to a broader metaphor. \u201cI think [gentrification has] become shorthand for talking about social inequalities and capitalism without having to call those things by name\u2014to say that something\u2019s been appropriated, or that something\u2019s become more upscale,\u201d Brown-Saracino explains.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>Japonica Brown-Saracino<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In an article for The Conversation<\/em><\/a>, Meaghan Furlano<\/a> (Sociology PhD Student at Western University) argues that recent trends of \u201cheteropessimism\u201d and \u201cdecentering men\u201d are not novel, but rather part of a longer history of frustration in heterosexual relationships. Furlano describes how the division of domestic labor and the idea that women \u201ccan effortlessly balance work and family responsibilities in workplaces not designed to support them\u201d have sustained frustrations across decades.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a><\/a><\/a>Meaghan Furlano<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a> (Professor at the University of North Carolina\u2019s School of Information and Library Science) wrote an op-ed for The New York Times<\/em><\/a>, discussing violence and phone recording by ICE agents in Minneapolis. \u201cThe gun and the phone are both weapons, one a tool for violence and the other a tool of control. […] ICE knows that it cannot shoot us all. But the Department of Homeland Security is close to being able to track us all.\u201d McMillan Cottom argues that big data collection and surveillance are threats to our civil liberties. \u201cMany of us have come to believe that our data is something outside of ourselves, when, in fact, data is our self.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Tressie McMillan Cottom<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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USA Toda<\/em>y<\/a> ran a story on the difficulty and strain of caregiving duties in romantic relationships. The article features Laura Mauldin<\/a>\u2019s (Associate Professor of Social and Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut) new book, In Sickness and in Health<\/em><\/a>, which shares caregiving love stories and describes how inaccessible healthcare and low support for caregivers impacts relationships. \u201cThere’s a romanticization of the idea of ‘the one,’\u201d Mauldin commented. “Because we don’t have robust social safety nets, that love that ‘the one’ has then gets transformed into unending, unrecognized labor that really threatens the stability of our relationships.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Laura Mauldin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kate Price<\/a> (Associate Research Scientist at Wellesley Centers for Women) wrote an article for The Conversation<\/em><\/a> on how the law\u2013particularly state law\u2013can further harm sexually exploited minors. Price explains that children can be criminally charged with prostitution in 35 states, which \u201crisks retraumatizing victims by labeling and stigmatizing them as criminal.\u201d Price notes that black and brown children are at a higher risk for being prosecuted.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Kate Price<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Star Tribune<\/em><\/a> ran an article on the potential for the Winter Olympics, taking place in Italy, to improve global tensions and \/ or provide a platform for political expression. Douglas Hartmann<\/a> (Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota) commented that a key question is whether there will be opposition to the U.S., \u201c a country that has been seen both as the leader in sport and as the leader in some kind of democratic, cosmopolitan commitment. That\u2019s where it feels so transformative, like it\u2019s a reset; it\u2019s a radical change, a disruption of the status quo.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Douglas Hartmann<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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