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Although literature on the role of emotions in teaching and learning is growing, little consideration has been given to the university context, particularly from a sociological perspective. This article draws upon the online survey responses of 24 students who attended sociological classes on the Grenfell Tower fire, to explore the role emotions play in teaching that seeks to politicise learners and agitate for social change. Contributing to understandings of pedagogies of 'discomfort' and 'hope', we argue that discomforting emotions, when channelled in directions that challenge inequality, have socially transformative potential. Introducing the concept of bounded social change, however, we demonstrate how the neoliberalisation of Higher Education threatens to limit capacity for social change. In so doing, we cast teaching as central to the discipline of sociology and suggest that the creation of positive social change should be the fundamental task of sociological teaching.

The fire at Grenfell Tower, a block of public housing flats in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, in June 2017 has come to epitomize the growing divide between Britain's rich and poor in the last decade. Yet, the proximity of Kensington Palace, home of many senior British royals, has been almost entirely ignored in scholarship and commentary on the Grenfell Tower atrocity. This is especially remarkable given the philanthropic 'work' the monarchy has undertaken since the fire's aftermath. This paper explores Together: Our Community Cookbook (The Hubb Community Kitchen. 2018. Together: Our community cookbook. London: Ebury Press), a cookbook released by Meghan Markle as part of her royal charitable 'duties', to raise money for The Hubb Community Kitchen – a group of women displaced in the fire, who prepared meals for survivors in the aftermath. The cookbook repeatedly emphasizes unity, collectivity and togetherness: the importance of a local community response to rehabilitate Grenfell survivors. By analysing the cultural politics of Together through radical contextualization, this paper argues that in releasing the cookbook, the British monarchy itself is incorporated into this narrative of community and recovery, which erases the classed and racialised inequalities between the monarchy and Grenfell survivors (and, indeed, those in similar socioeconomic positions). Fundamentally, the cookbook obscures the ongoing culpability of 'the elites' for the sociopolitical and socioeconomic inequalities experienced by citizens in Britain. Together evidences how inequalities in contemporary Britain are normalized and legitimized in the public imaginary through media representations, obscuring the structural inequalities that underpinned the conditions at Grenfell, and instead individualizing the survivors as 'responsiblised' neoliberal subjects.

1.Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Hospitality /Conrad Lashley --2.One Cheer for Marxism: Hospitality as a Bourgeois Phenomenon /Roy C. Wood --3.Hostility and Hospitality: Connecting Brexit, Grenfell, and Windrush /Tom Selwyn --4.Inhospitable Hospitality? /George Ritzer --5.Experiencing, Expressing and Evoking Emotions in Hospitality and Tourism /Prokopis A. Christou --6.A Paradigm Shift from "Emotional Labor" to "Genuine Emotional Display" in the Workplace /Aspasia Simillidou and Prokopis A. Christou --7.Working in Hospitality: Flexible Working and the Gig Economy /Bill Rowson --8.Pleasure and Hospitality in New Zealand: The Roles of Alcohol, Sex, and Service /Jill Poulston --9.The Diminishing Role of the General Manager from a Middle Managers' Perspective: Some Generic Drivers /Tjeerd Zandberg --10.Roboptimism or Pessimism: HR Managers Face a Challenge /Verena Hopf, Laura Velten and Bill Rowson --11.Ladies and Gentlemen Serving Ladies and Gentlemen /Klaes Eringa --12.Wine Tourism and Hospitality: Opportunities and Challenges for Future Development /Radu Mihailescu.

By any measure, Judith Gardam has accomplished much in her professional life and is rightly acknowledged by scholars throughout the world as an expert in her many fields of diverse interest — including international law, energy law and feminist theory. This book celebrates her academic life and work with twelve essays from leading scholars in Gardam's fields of expertise.