Over fifty authors from two dozen countries and from across the full spectrum of sociology tackle the pertinent issues of our time.
Continue ReadingTodd Gitlin: Convulsive Climate Change
How shall sociology contend with collective uncertainty and the radical change in the human time horizon? – Some philosophical and sociological challenges
Continue ReadingDevorah Kalekin-Fishman: Alienation
Alienation is a pervasive mal-condition of human beings. Once its meaning and its range become clear, it becomes an inescapable key to understanding the contemporary human condition.
Continue ReadingJohn Foran: Climate Justice
With climate change, we are facing a perfect storm of suffering, a crisis of humanity. What is to be done to achieve radical social change?
Continue ReadingSalas-Porras & Murray: Think-Tanks
How do think-tanks operate? How do they exert power? How are they funded?
Continue ReadingChristina Schachtner: Global Flows
Global flows in the form of movements of capital, commodities, information, communication and migrants rank among the most distinctive characteristics of the social and cultural upheavals which we are experiencing at present all over the world.
Continue ReadingSimon Critchley: Future Fiction
The philosopher Simon Critchley writes from the future, looking back from his Moscow hotel room on 1 January 2019.
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