5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025)

This session conceives of the problematic of dispossession of land to be transformed into mining compounds not as a form of material inequality per se, although this is unequivocally present, but as a general framework for tackling the issue of dispossession and the questions of “who decides what counts,” how to recognize the actions of those “left behind,” who do not count in the sense given by J. Rancière (2010, 2021). Therefore, our session addresses the notion of equality conceived not as conceded rights, but as the very basis of actions. Secondly, the analyses, while based on relations of non-equivalence with the dominant social construction on “development and growth”, insist in the margins of discourses that are closer to the experiences of social actors who call for a “just justice.”

This session welcomes contributions that document various types of counter-practices to extractivism as dispossession, be they inspired by social movements organizing or art-based productions, collective or individual. It is also looking at work on long terms actions, which allow to go beyond the momentaneous re/actions. Finally, the session welcomes contributions on the Machreq and Maghreb regions.