Amit Singh

@amit-singh.bsky.social

Sociologist at @ucl.ac.uk

Cancelled Futures (PUP): https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691276700/cancelled-futures

Pubs for the People (MUP): https://www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-for-the-people/sivamohan-valluvan/amit-singh/9781526194541

@princetonupress.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 12:02 PMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

"Highly readable and highly recommended.”—Sam Friedman, coauthor of Born to Rule

In Cancelled Futures, @amit-singh.bsky.social examines how experiences of class-based inequality work through race, place, & gender in different ways.

Out now. Read a free preview on our website: buff.ly/BMyZTR4

Cancelled Futures: Class, Race, and Place in Post-Industrial Britain by Amit Singh

@jmarkdodds.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 12:43 AMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

Halfway through PUBS FOR THE PEOPLE by Amit Singh and Sivamohan Valluvan. It’s up there among the best books about pubs I’ve read - its certainly the most interesting.

Early recommendation BUY THIS BOOK: It's out October 20, 2026. Pre-order see link manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526194541/

Image 1: A hand holds Pubs for the People: The Fight for the Pint and the Nation by sociologists Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh inside a softly lit pub.

The cover resembles a traditional pub tabletop: a large red beer mat reads “PUBS FOR THE PEOPLE”, alongside a foaming pint, while a pub-sign-style panel carries the subtitle and authors’ names.

The busy pub behind is deliberately out of focus — an appropriate setting for a book that treats the Public House not as nostalgia, but as living social infrastructure: a place where people meet, mix and share space across differences, while asking who owns and controls these places and what kind of society pubs can help sustain.

Image 2: The back cover of Pubs for the People, including a photograph of authors Sivamohan Valluvan and Amit Singh standing outside a pub with drinks in hand.

Biographical text describes Valluvan as a sociologist at the University of Warwick and Singh as a sociologist at University College London whose father, if he had been a son rather than a daughter, would have been a fourth-generation publican.

The description says the authors travel through Britain’s pubs while confronting private equity, gentrification and culture-war arguments about national identity.

It concludes that, in a world that can feel “lonelier, angrier and more despairing”, the pub offers the prospect of a “more equal, sociable and comfortably multiracial England.”

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Reviews / endorsements for Pubs for the People

Emma Warren, author of Up the Youth Club: “A clever, charming and powerfully convivial book.”

Kojo Koram, author of Uncommon Wealth: “Reminds us of the importance of protecting the Great British pub as a space where communities can share in kinship and merriment.”

Jonathan Nunn, writer and co-editor of Vittles: “Eschews nostalgia for what pubs used to be and celebrates them as a resilient format that has adapted to the needs of people today.”

Pete Brown, author of Clubland: “A bold reimagining of the pub as part of the solution to the radicalism and racial tension gripping Britain.”

Richard Seymour, author of Disaster Nationalism: “Brilliant: one of the sharpest, and strangest, books ever written about English nationalism.”

Laura Hadland, CAMRA Campaigner of the Year 2024: “Will fascinate the general reader and resonate deeply with the regular pub goer.”

Image 4: Pubs for the People lies on a round wooden pub table beside a partly drunk pint of pale golden beer, with the softly blurred interior of the pub behind.

It is the book returned to the environment it examines: not simply pubs as businesses selling beer, but the Public House as an everyday shared space in which strangers and friends coexist, conversation happens and social connections form.

Valluvan and Singh connect that social role to the forces shaping who gets to keep, use and belong in these spaces — ownership, economics, class, race, gentrification and the continuing struggle over what the pub is for and who it is for.

@amit-singh.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 9:34 AM

Nice piece in @newjournal.bsky.social about Pubs for the People

Featuring a very loving pic of me and Vallu!

www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/the-...

@jameskneale.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 12:53 PMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

there's going to be a lot about this book here, sorry not sorry - like this great piece on PUBS FOR THE PEOPLE in the Camden New Journal: www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/the-...

@manchesterup.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 5:24 PMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

In their new book Pubs for the people, @amit-singh.bsky.social & Sivamohan Valluvan make a heartfelt case for why the English pub still matters and how we can save it.

In conversation with Malcolm James (@sussex.ac.uk) & Phil Mellows in #Brighton on Nov 5th.

FREE tickets: tinyurl.com/3dh4284m

@amit-singh.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:11 AM

Latest paper from my @leverhulme.ac.uk project out in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social

Misidentification, confusion and uncertainty: How working-class youth interpret their class identities

Open-access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@philmellows.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:15 AMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

This is an important contribution to the debate around pubs from @amit-singh.bsky.social and Sivamohan Valluvan. And it's a good read, too. I'll be chairing the Brighton launch event - but don't let that put you off | @britbeerwriters.bsky.social www.beerguild.co.uk/news/pubs-fo...

@amit-singh.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 9:07 AM

Pubs for the People event in Manchester

📆 2nd of November

@manchesterup.bsky.social x @versobooks.bsky.social

📍TrackBrewing Co - Brewery & Taproom

We'll be chatting with Lewis Bassett, author of The Full English, about nationalism, food, pubs and more.

t.co/D3AHfRA7VW

@amit-singh.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 9:44 AM

Pubs for the People has arrived

Described by @leninology.bsky.social as "one of the sharpest and strangest books ever written about English nationalism"

What more can anyone want?

Order: www.waterstones.com/book/pubs-fo...

@uclgeography.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 7:57 AMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

UCL Geography is calling for 2026/2027 applications for The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships. The department's internal deadline for applications is Friday 2 November 2026 at 12pm. For more details: https://tinyurl.com/3e27xj3e #research #fellowships #academicfunding

@lseinequalities.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:37 AMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

How is privilege produced in Britain’s elite schools?

Join the III & @lsesociology.bsky.social for the book launch of An Elite Education by @emmaemmatay.bsky.social, joined by Tiwa Adebayo, Annette Lareau, Lee Elliot-Major & @mikesavagelse.bsky.social

@amit-singh.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 8:47 AM

Race, Class and Conviviality in Changing Times

Free event at @ucl.ac.uk from the @sprc-ucl.bsky.social

📆 12th November 6-7.30pm

With @alexkelbert.bsky.social Sita Balani & Malcolm James discussing conviviality 20 years on from the publication of After Empire

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/race-class...

@leverhulme.ac.uk Oct 2, 2026, 8:15 AMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

The Leverhulme Library – showcasing recently published books from researchers the Trust has funded.

This month we have books by Leverhulme Early Career Fellows @peterbudrin.bsky.social, @caterose.bsky.social, Giada Lagana, @kinolaus.bsky.social and @amit-singh.bsky.social.

@philmellows.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 10:26 AMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

Without doubt a clumsy intervention by the 'nature minister', but elements of the far right are, indeed, using the myth of a 'lost' English pub | Morning Advertiser: www.morningadvertiser.co.uk/Article/2026...
See @amit-singh.bsky.social @jameskneale.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@amit-singh.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:59 PM

Phoning it in from Russia!

@amit-singh.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 5:07 PM

I had this last week. But mainly green. Some labour. Had no restore. No reform either.

@buraksonmez.bsky.social Sep 29, 2026, 9:15 AMReposted by @amit-singh.bsky.social

Come and join us @sriucl.bsky.social

We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science with a research agenda on the environment and/or climate change, and expertise in causal inference.

See full details and apply 👉🏼 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL Social Research Institute recruitment poster for an Assistant Professor in Quantitative Social Science at the Centre for Quantitative Social Science. Applications close 30 October 2026.

@amit-singh.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 1:55 PM

I had this...

@amit-singh.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 8:14 AM

www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

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