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

In addition to perspectives that focus on the study of individuals and highlight individual capacities to understand why some researchers are more affected than others, there are other complementary approaches. One of those is the intersectional approach that not only allows us to understand the positionality of social actors but also the researchers' positionality in the axis of inequality given by social class, race and gender, thus making the researcher-subject of study relationship more complex.

For this joint session, we invite proposals from fieldwork experience or initiatives among researchers or support networks that allow working on the consequences of inequality during the research process. We propose the following guiding questions but the call is wider than them: Which political and structural dimensions emerge during research processes? What kind of biases do they produce or reproduce? What supportive experiences exist to deal with experiences of discrimination or violence during fieldwork? What self-care strategies or wellbeing-promoting experiences are applied by scholars to respond appropriately to the emotional costs while facing adversity?