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Common Session 3C - The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

Wednesday, 13 July 2016: 17:45-19:15
Location: Hörsaal 33 (Main Building)


The Common Sessions present distinguished speakers from the ISA's Research Committees (RC), Working Groups (WG), and Thematic Groups (TG) who address from their perspective the common theme �The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World.� The purpose of these plenaries is to foster dialogue and exchange new insights and inspirations across research units by jointly focusing on the theme of the Forum, on forward-oriented modes of sociology, on the future visions of different social actors, their struggles for a better world, and global sociologies� contributions to these debates.
Chair:
Habibul KHONDKER, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Posters:
Is the Future ‘Human’, ‘Posthuman’ or ‘Transhuman’
Steve FULLER, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Is the Crisis Cascading into Violence?
Sylvia WALBY, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
Institutional Ethnography and Activist Futures
Eric MYKHALOVSKIY, York University, Canada
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