Past issues

This issue of Global Dialogue opens with an interview with Geoffrey Pleyers, current president of the ISA, elected at the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne. In in our regular “Talking Sociology” section, Pleyers shares some of his contributions to the study of social movements, his views on global sociology, and his perspectives about the contemporary world and the role of sociology. The first thematic section celebrates 100 years of the Japan Sociological Society. Its president Yoshimichi Sato and several members of its board of directors trace the different stages of Japanese sociology vis-à-vis the institutionalization of the Japan Sociological Society. Special emphasis is placed on global connections, recent trends in Japanese sociology, and internationalization. The second thematic section is devoted to contemporary political...

As we close this issue of Global Dialogue, Gaza lies in ruins. We cannot look away. That is why this issue begins and ends with the war in Gaza. In our regular interview, Norwegian sociologists Thora Bjørke Sandberg and Helle Haglund interview former ISA president Sari Hanafi. As a Syrian-Palestinian, Hanafi lived in Palestine during the second intifada, the al-Aqsa intifada. He experienced firsthand what it is like to live under what he calls a ‘spacio-cidal’ Israeli project. In this conversation, he presents his reflections on the ongoing war in Gaza, calls for an institutional boycott of Israeli institutions, and discusses some common interpretations of the war that he considers inadequate or wrong. In this issue, South-South and North-South relations are the focus of two thematic sections. In the first, organized by Carolina Vestena, Eric...

Welcome to the first issue of 2024 of Global Dialogue! If last year was an experimentation period involving a steep learning curve, we are now glad to already have some new features prepared for this year. In each issue, we will feature new projects, partnerships, and innovative communication and dissemination strategies, while keeping the very essence and vocation of this magazine, that is, the commitment to public and global sociology. In the interview that opens this issue Sari Hanafi, former president of the ISA until 2023, offers us a fascinating conversation with Zhao Tingyang. Here this prominent Chinese intellectual reflects on some of his main theoretical contributions and shares his current interpretation of the crisis of liberal democracy. The next section, organised by Federico Neiburg, Isabelle Guérin, and Susana Narotzky addresses the ‘cost...