Overview

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.""

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Author:   Markus S. Schulz ,  SAGE Publications Ltd
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Ltd
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9781526463999

ISBN 10:   1526463997
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   26 March 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World - Markus S. Schulz Futures 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 Lessenich Me san aba: The Africa We Want and an African-centred Approach to Knowledge Production - Akosua Adomako Ampofo Pueblos in Movement: Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives from Latin America - Nora Garita Bonilla Post-Islamist Democracy - Asef Bayat Relocalizing the National and Horizontalizing the Global - Saskia Sassen Social Movements: The Core of General Sociology - Michel Wieviorka Epilogue - Alain Touraine

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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.

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