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Narratives of Nothing

It is often remarked that you can have a sociology of anything. It is not so often said that you can have a sociology of nothing, but this is exactly what Susie Scott of Sussex University is trying to develop. We are familiar with ideas about non-places since the work of Marc AugĂ© and Rob Shields, and George Ritzer has elaborated ideas of non-things and non-people in his book on  The Globalization of Nothing , but Susie aims at a far more general approach to nothing at all.  As part of her project on the Sociology of Nothing, extending her interactionist work on everyday life, she is collecting personal stories of non-doing, non-being, and non-having, exploring ideas and feelings about those things that are lost, missing, or have never happened. Details on the project can be found at  https://nothingnarratives.wordpress.com/about     Stories submitted to the website on Narratives of Nothing include:  a mother wanting space to ‘do nothi...