Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World: Towards the Futures We Want

by Markus S. Schulz (Editor)

Overview

A diverse collection of regional 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526463982
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/16/2019
Series:	SAGE Studies in International Sociology
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

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