Newsletter – January 2015 is out now!
Jan 30th, 2015 | By RC47The new edition of the newsletter from the ISA Research Committee 47 is out now. You can download it here
ISA-RC 47: New Perspectives for 2014-2018
Dec 16th, 2014 | By RC47 and Geoffrey PleyersThis intellectual project was presented by the new board at the RC 47 General Assembly at the World Congress of Sociology in July 2014. The second part of the document (Publications & meetings) was updated in November 2014. Table of Contents: I. Insightful approaches to social movements II. A democratic, accountable, more decentralized and convivial
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A new board and a new vision
Oct 17th, 2014 | By Emiliano TreréDiscover the new elected board and the new collaborators of RC47 for the upcoming years: Click here Discover the new vision for a more democratic, accountable, decentralized and convivial RC47: Click here
Claiming Society for God
May 20th, 2013 | By EmanueleNancy Davis and Robert Robinson’s Claiming Society for God: Religious Movements and Social Welfare in Egypt, Israel, Italy, and the United States (Indiana University Press, 2012) has been awarded the gold medal in the Religion category of the Independent Publishers Book Awards, which recognize books by university and independent presses. The book also won the
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Our Violent World. Terrorism in Society
May 15th, 2013 | By Emanuele What can the analysis of violence and terror tell us about the modern world? Why is violence often used to achieve religious, cultural or political goals? Can we understand the search for the extreme that increasingly shapes violence today? From 1960s student movements to today’s global jihad, this text explores the factors and debates shaping
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XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology
Jan 23rd, 2013 | By Emanuele
Call for Sessions In the framework of the next XVIII ISA World Congress the focus of RC47 will be on themes of democracy, injustice, equality and the growing role of an actor’s affirmation against systemic forms of oppression. RC47 asks its members to develop sessions on these themes and their linkages with contemporary conflicts
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Newsletter – Issue 4 – Winter 2012
Jan 3rd, 2013 | By EmanueleThe RC47 Nesletter (issue 4, Winter 2012) is out! Check here.
New Cultural Frontiers – Call for Papers 5th issue
Dec 11th, 2012 | By Emanuele“Actors and Movements around Technology, Risks and Environment” Deadline: April 30th, 2013 You can download the call for papers here. After a series of major events such as natural disasters, nuclear accidents and huge environmental incidents, various actors – individuals and groups – who performed significant activities concerning these events (but who had also remained
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New Cultural Frontiers vol.3 Special Issue is out!
Nov 13th, 2012 | By EmanueleThe third issue of New Cultural Frontiers is out! It is a special issue on “Memory Studies on Migration, Visual Culture“. The contributions presented were selected among those discussed during the international Workshop on “Sociological Uses of Memory” (October 27-29th 2011) held at the CADIS (Centre d’Analyse et d’Intervention Sociologiques) – EHESS (School for Advanced Studies
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Inequality and Integration in Times of Crisis
Nov 13th, 2012 | By EmanueleCongress of the Swiss Sociological Association June 26 – 28, 2013 at the University of Bern, Switzerland (download the Call for Paper here) Since Karl Marx first described the enormous social inequalities and their potential for social change at the beginning of industrialization in the 19th century, the origins, extent, and consequences of social inequality, as
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