
GD 15.1 - April 2025
This year, Global Dialogue (GD) is fifteen years old. It all started in a handcrafted way thanks to the extraordinary impetus of Michael Burawoy. In his first editorial in September 2010, Michael wrote: “We want this newsletter to become the center for the exchange of ideas within our global community.” At the end of 2014, after the XVIII ISA World Congress in Japan, Global Dialogue ceased to be a newsletter and became a magazine. Gradually, it went from being published in four languages to seventeen, combining online articles with four (and then three) issues per year, and took on an increasingly professional design. Lola Busuttil and August Bagà, who have been involved in the making of GD since the beginning, have great merit in this achievement.
At the end of 2017, Michael Burawoy wrote a short history of Global Dialogue in the GD7.4...