Europe Archives - The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

Adloff, Costa, Kerner, Vetter: Conviviality

By Admin / Jul 8, 2016 /

Conviviality sets a concrete utopia against dystopia—an awareness of the possibility of cooperation.

Frank Welz: The Sociology We Want?

By Admin / Jul 7, 2016 /

How do Austeritis and Evaluitis shape the conditions of knowledge production for sociology? What kind of sociology do we want?

Julian Go: Southern Solution

By Admin / May 29, 2016 /

Sociology is provincial. As a disciplinary formation institutionalized in North America and Europe, it is particularistic and parochial while masquerading as universal.

Carmen Leccardi: Incertitude

By Admin / Mar 4, 2016 /

Construire l’avenir dans une période d’incertitude Building the Future in a Time of Uncertainty (English) | (French) Carmen Leccardi Université de Milano-Bicocca, Italie

Carmen Leccardi: Uncertainty

By Admin / Mar 4, 2016 /

How do young people relate to the future today? How can creative openness coexist with a tendency toward the short-term? What shapes these cultural trends?

Adam Mrozowicki & Justyna Kajta: Labor

By Admin / Oct 29, 2015 /

The revival of new nationalism in Poland, Hungary and other CEE countries makes it necessary to rethink the political positions and organizational resources of labor movements.

Anecdotal stereotyping of ‘other’ peoples and cultures is neither new nor of course limited to the West. But things become more serious when stereotypical imaginations get articulated by systematic, ‘scientific’, and authoritative apparatuses of knowledge production. Orientalism …