Global Dialogue, Magazine of International Sociology Association

Manifesto Concerning Global Crises and Radical Alternatives

by ADELANTE – Dialogue of Global Processes

The crises we face The world is spiralling into an abyss of multiple crises. Deep fissures divide humanity, and humans from the rest of nature. The currently dominant oppressive system is fundamentally flawed and has created and sustains these crises. This system’s roots are in the structures and relations of class, colonialism, racism, patriarchy, capitalism, state domination, casteism and our human-centred focus. It is these roots, not only the symptoms manifested in the crises, that also need to be challenged and transformed. There has been...

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Beyond Difference: Similarity in a Pluriversal World

by Lidia Becker, Christine Hatzky

The present is characterized by environmental catastrophes, wars, desolidarization and rapid technological progress with unforeseeable consequences. The practices of exploitation have intensified under neoliberal capitalism and accelerated the displacement and extinction of many terrestrial – human and non-human – populations. In light of these current planetary challenges, we argue for analyzing them “beyond difference” and unlocking the potential of similarity as a mediating concept for the humanities and social sciences, in accordance with the work of Anil Bhatti. Pluriversality...

Japanese Sociology and the Japan Sociological Society: A Brief History

by Yoshimichi Sato

I will briefly describe the history of Japanese sociology and the Japan Sociological Society (JSS) from my perspective because it is beyond my capacity to cover all the details of their history over more than one hundred years. Foundations with the aim of improving Japanese society The JSS was established in 1924, but Japanese sociologists had started conducting sociological research before then. As Auguste Comte conceived the reconstruction of French society after the French Revolution, Japanese sociologists envisioned the way Japanese society would be and should...

Japanese Sociology and its Global Connections

by Chikako Mori

The contributions of Japanese sociology to global sociological discussions are multifaceted, making them challenging to assess comprehensively in a brief article. The contributions take many forms at different scales, times, and places – for example, Chizuko Ueno’s work in China has been highly influential – and there is no clear consensus on how to evaluate them. Indeed, assessments vary greatly according to the evaluator’s perspective. The...

Challenges for Global Dissemination of Japanese Sociological Research

by Masako Ishii-Kuntz

In my early career in the US, it was rare for me to run into Japanese scholars and graduate students when attending annual meetings of the American Sociological Association or other conferences hosted by different professional organizations. This scene has, however, steadily been changing, perhaps since the first years of this century, as I began to meet more sociologists from Japan at many professional meetings in the US. Consolidation and breaching the language barrier This trend has become much more evident since the XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology was...

Recent Trends in Japanese Sociology

by Naoki Sudo

The recent trends in Japanese sociology exhibit two characteristics. First, the chief interest of Japanese sociologists appears to have shifted to sociological methods. It is noteworthy that the methodological interests of Japanese sociologists are not limited to quantitative methods but also include qualitative methods. Second, the interests of Japanese sociologists during the early twenty-first century have been more diverse than those of the twentieth century. Thus, Japanese sociologists’ chief interests have shifted towards the latest topics. These can be interpreted as new topics...

Global Sociology in Times of Polycrisis: An Interview with Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President

by Geoffrey Pleyers, Breno Bringel

Geoffrey Pleyers is FNRS Research Director at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. He has been actively involved in the International Sociological Association (ISA) since 2006. He chaired ISA Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements (RC47) from 2014 to 2018 and acted as ISA Vice-President for Research from 2018 to 2023. On July 2023 he was elected ISA President for 2023-27. He is interviewed here by Breno Bringel, Professor of Sociology at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, editor of Global Dialogue and a regular...

The War in Gaza and the Responsibility of Universities An Interview with Sari Hanafi

by Sari Hanafi, Thora Bjørke Sandberg, Helle Haglund

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Sari Hanafi is currently a Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies, and Chair of the Islamic Studies program at the American University of Beirut. He is a corresponding fellow of the British Academy and the past President of the International Sociological Association (2018-23). He is the author of numerous articles and books on the sociology of religion, the sociology of (forced) migration applied to Palestinian refugees, and the politics of scientific research. As a Syrian-Palestinian, Hanafi lived in Palestine when the second Intifada ...

Hierarchies and Racialisation in South-South Cooperation

by Carolina Vestena, Eric Cezne, Marie Stiller

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South-South cooperation (SSC) is a key dynamic in the international order. Historical examples include the Bandung Conference, the Non-Aligned Movement, and Pan-Africanism, which emerged against the backdrop of decolonisation movements in Africa and Asia during the 1950s and 1960s. More recent examples, particularly in the post-2000 period, can be found in the search for strategic commercial partnerships and political clout by emerging powers such as Brazil, India, China and South Africa – and their respective groupings such as the BRICS – at the height of the commodities boom and...

The “Global South” Concept and its Unfulfilled Anti-Racist Ideals

by Marie Stiller

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In his inaugural address given on April 18, 1955 at the Bandung Conference, the Indonesian President Sukarno linked the “Global South” countries and the question of racism in the following way: “We are of many different nations, we are of many different social backgrounds and cultural patterns. […] Our racial stock is different, and even the colour of our skin is different. But what does that matter? Mankind is united or...

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