Global sociology and the struggles for a better world : towards the futures we want
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Global sociology and the struggles for a better world : towards the futures we want
(Sage studies in international sociology, 66)
SAGE, 2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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."
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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