IV ISA Forum of Sociology

Postponement

The ISA Executive Committee has chose to postpone the IV ISA Forum of Sociology in Porto Alegre until February 23-27, 2021.

All activities which were ready would be maintained and also the abstract chosen for the Forum in July 2020 stay valid for the Forum in February 2021. We now have set a calendar that is new enables Research Committees, Working and Thematic Groups to upgrade and re-open a few of their panels. a call that is new abstracts will start.

16-25, 2020: RC/WG/TG publish Calls for new abstracts October 26 – November 12, 2020: Submission of new abstracts via online platform December 15, 2020: Presenters final registration deadline october

Develop you will definitely join us in Porto Alegre because of this 2021 ISA Forum of Sociology which will be an unique chance to learning from peers from all continents and sharing analyses associated with crisis, its social effects in addition to globe that may emerge from the jawhorse.

Within the meanwhile, be sure to keep safe and look after yourself and of the individuals you like. Sari Hanafi, President for the Global Sociological Association Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA Vice President for analysis and President of this IV ISA Forum of Sociology

Forum Registration 2021

PRESENTERS ENROLLMENT Deadline stretched Dec.15, 2020

Challenges of this twenty-first Century: Democracy, Environment, Inequalities, Intersectionality

Two decades following the beginning of our century, the optimism of this Millennium has faded therefore the challenges we face for residing together on a planet that is limited much more urgent.

Whilst the expansion and also the deepening of democratization ended up being overlooked in the change associated with Millennium, democracy was on the line in a growing amount of nations, while its key component such as for instance variety and equal respect for all residents are threatened. The a cure for a international democracy able to tackle international problems such as for example environment modification, migrations and increasing inequalities have actually faded. This has now become clear that to manage worldwide challenges, democracy should be re-invented within and beyond the representative system.

Environmentally friendly crisis and environment modification are now actually a worrying reality. How do we live together on a restricted earth? Food and land have grown to be once more major items of battles. Ecological and socio-territorial disputes have actually increased against extractivist companies. That are the actors who bring revolutionary methods to keep our communities thriving in the planetary boundaries? So how exactly does the international crisis that is environmental us to re-think the world and our control?

Inequalities have actually dramatically increased considering that the change of this Millennium. We could now count twenty-six people who have more wealth compared to poorest half of mankind. This degree of inequality is a threat that is major democracy also to ecology. Inequalities specially affect marginalized populations and ladies in their professional, general public and personal life.

Intersectionality is actually major theme in the ISA seminars as well as in our control throughout the last twenty years. Conquering the lasting and interconnected financial, racial, colonial and gender discriminations in addition to physical physical violence that keep them is another major challenge of your time. The rising awareness of intersectionality is both an effect and a trigger for the rise of subaltern actors and motions since 1992. Native communities, minorities, feminists and little farmers have actually resisted injustice by combining techniques, social battles and alternative worldviews.

The 2020 ISA Forum provides sociological analyses of those four international challenges having to pay attention that is particular their interconnections and also to feasible solutions. We are going to talk about just just how both modern and conservative actors and movements tackle these challenges and their perspectives that are conflictive. We are going to make use of this Forum to ask exactly how our control is fulfilling these four global challenges and it's been changed by them. Do you know the efforts of this actors and epistemologies for the Southern? Exactly what are the trends that are new worldwide sociology that enable revolutionary analyses among these challenges? Which are the obstacles that are main face to tackle these issues? How do innovative analyses that are sociological to know and also to face our typical dilemmas within the worldwide Age?

Geoffrey Pleyers ISA Vice-President Analysis