Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

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Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

Name: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World
Brand: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
SKU: 9781526463999
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Towards the Futures We Want

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Edited by Markus S. Schulz
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Release Date: June 24, 2019
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 128

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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."

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.

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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