Global Dialogue, Magazine of International Sociology Association

Challenges for Public and Global Sociology An Interview with Brigitte Aulenbacher and Klaus Dörre

by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Klaus Dörre, Breno Bringel, Carolina Vestena, Vitória Gonzalez

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Global Dialogue Editors (GDE): How do you transpose the concept of public sociology into your research agenda, bearing in mind both your local research networks and your international engagement within the ISA? Brigitte Aulenbacher (BA): Public sociology is a concept that allows the dissemination of scientific knowledge and stimulates discourse between academic and non-academic audiences, inspiring sociological work by taking up discussions from different societal fields. As Michael Burawoy coined the term, it is an...

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Welcome to the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne

by Sari Hanafi

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We will at last meet in person. When finally deciding on the date for this XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, many questions remained: Should it be online, hybrid or in-person? Who cannot make it? Who is still fearful of coming too close to others? After almost three years of online meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this major in-person event appears as a historic moment. We envisaged different scenarios, but for now the outcome is most encouraging, with 7,126 abstracts submitted. Two-thirds of those are planned to be presented in person and the other third virtually. The program...

Rekindling In-Person Conferences in an (Almost) Post-Pandemic World

by Anahí Viladrich

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In August 2022 I flew out to Los Angeles to join the 117th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, the very first in-person event I had attended in more than two years. Happy to be back together with my colleagues, though still fearful of coming too close to others, I had serious misgivings about taking part in this entirely face-to-face four-day event with over 4,500 people present. Despite being fully vaccinated and boosted and having already had my fair share of COVID-19 infection (I had been sick twice to be precise), I felt hesitant about being indoors with thousands of colleagues...

Global Sociology as a Renewed Global Dialogue

by Geoffrey Pleyers

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After its heyday in the 1990s, global sociology has come under harsh criticism by approaches that include subaltern, postcolonial, decolonial, feminist and gender studies, and Southern theories together with other “epistemologies of the South.” Beyond their heterogeneity and divergences, these approaches converge in challenging the legitimacy of global sociology, which has been identified with Eurocentrism and the domination of Northern/Western sociologists. The epistemic agenda propounded by these critical theories combines two steps. The first is the deconstruction of the...

Why We Need a New Framework to Study the Far Right in the Global South

by Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Tatiana Vargas-Maia

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Vast scholarship has attempted to account for the rise – or resurgence – of the far right in the post-2010 world. In this short article, we argue that we need a new approach to understanding such a phenomenon, relying on a Global South perspective[1], in which colonialism and coloniality play a central analytical role (Masood and Nisar, 2020; Tavares Furtado and Eklundh, 2022). In the international literature, countries in the Global South are often presented as examples, case studies or variants of wider political events that place the United States and Europe...

Green Pacts and the Geopolitics of Ecosocial Transitions

by Maristella Svampa, Alberto Acosta, Enrique Viale, Breno Bringel, Miriam Lang, Raphael Hoetmer, Carmen Aliaga, Liliana Buitrago

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The Ecosocial and Intercultural Pact of the South was formed in the first months of 2020, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its main goal was to support a bottom-up ecosocial transition for Latin America. From its origins, the platform sought to promote, amplify, and systematize diverse local experiences linked to community control, territorial autonomies, food sovereignty, agroecology, community energy and ecofeminisms, among other struggles. The initiative was motivated by the urgent need to respond to the different crises that...

Development for the 1%

by Vandana Shiva

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We need to move beyond the discourse of ‘development’ and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as shaped by capitalist patriarchal thinking, and reclaim our true humanity as members of the Earth family. As Lessem and Schieffer write in their book Integral Economics: “If the fathers of capitalist theory had chosen a mother rather than a single bourgeois male as the smallest economic unit for their theoretical constructions, they would not have been able to formulate...

“Buen Vivir”: Genealogy and Horizons

by Mónica Chuji, Grimaldo Rengifo, Eduardo Gudynas

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The category of buen vivir or “living well” expresses an ensemble of South American perspectives which share a radical questioning of development and other core components of modernity, while at the same time offering alternatives that reach beyond it. It is not akin to the Western understanding of well-being or the good life, nor can it be described as an ideology or culture. It expresses a deeper change in knowledge, affectivity, and spirituality: an ontological opening to other forms of understanding the relation between humans and non-humans which do not imply the modern...

Ubuntu: A Just and Empowering Concept and Way to Live

by Lesley Le Grange

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Ubuntu is a southern African concept which means humanness and implies both a condition of being and a state of becoming. It concerns the unfolding of the human being in relation to other human beings and the more-than-human world of non-human nature. In other words, the becoming of a human is dependent on other human beings and the cosmos. Moreover, ubuntu suggests that a human being is not the atomized individual of the Western tradition, but is embedded in social and biophysical relations. Ubuntu is therefore “anti-humanist” because it emphasizes the relational existence...

Mapping Ecofeminist Debates

by Christelle Terreblanche

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Ecofeminists spell out historical, material, and ideological connections between the subjugation of women and the domination of nature. As members of an evolving movement, they speak to a diverse body of political theory including feminist, decolonial, and environmental ethics, urging examination of how foundational concepts are embedded in and corrupted by traditional sex-gendered assumptions. From its beginnings in the 1960s, ecofeminist theory was inspired by grassroots direct action. Ecofeminism grew rapidly alongside the anti-nuclear and peace movements of the 1970s and 80s, and amidst...

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