Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

Towards the Futures We Want

AvMarkus S. Schulz

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounting pressures of social and ecological problems are met by a confluence of intellectual trends that allow the questioning of entrenched assumptions and the unleashing of a forward-oriented sociological imagination.

In Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World, a diverse collection of international experts explore contemporary trends, alternative visions, and new directions for sociological research, raising issues that reflect the complexity of challenges facing future projects on a shared planet.

Topics include:

Global Inequality
Multipolar Globalization
Climate Change
Contentious Politics and Social Movements
Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives in Latin America
An African-centred approach to Knowledge Production
Post-Islamist Democracy

Based on the revised papers of the Opening and Closing Plenaries of the Third ISA Forum of Sociology in Vienna, Austria, July 2016, which Markus Schulz organized on the theme “The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-26
Mått:155 x 231 x 10 mm
Vikt:204 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SAGE Studies in International Sociology
Antal sidor:128
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781526463982

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Markus S. Schulz is Vice-President for Research of the International Sociological Association (ISA) and serves as President of the 2016 ISA Forum of Sociology in Vienna. Professor Schulz is Past-President of the ISA Research Committee on Futures Research (RC07), and previous Program Committee member for the ISA World Congress in Yokohama. Professor Schulz’s research focuses on democracy, globalization, media, movements, and the social imagination of possible futures. He is currently working at the New School for Social Research on the intellectual history of future concepts.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World - Markus S. SchulzFutures We Want: Walking Back the Cat, Positives, Negatives, Ambigious, Balance - Jan Nederveen Pieterse What Kind of World Can Weather Climate Change? Some Philosophical and Sociological Challenges - Todd Gitlin The ′Open Society′ and Its Contradictions: Towards a Critical Sociology of Global Inequalities - Stephan LessenichMe san aba: The Africa We Want and an African-centred Approach to Knowledge Production - Akosua Adomako AmpofoPueblos in Movement: Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives from Latin America - Nora Garita BonillaPost-Islamist Democracy - Asef BayatRelocalizing the National and Horizontalizing the Global - Saskia SassenSocial Movements: The Core of General Sociology - Michel WieviorkaEpilogue - Alain Touraine