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

This session proposal aims to advance an analytical understanding of the relationship between culture and economy in vulnerable people’s everyday life, in a context of emerging critical events and long-term processes associated with climate crisis. Climate crisis-related phenomena—such as the increasing demand for environmental rights— can be in conflict with economic cultures, as governmental actions towards environmental protection can collide with people’s traditional understanding of their own economic activities. Taking into consideration the complex intersections between culture and economy, this session seeks understand how, by developing new cultural and economic practices and rationalities, people living under intersectional conditions of vulnerability respond and adapt to socio-environmental precariousness resulting from climate change. We encourage scholars to submit theoretically informed empirical works that, drawing on quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods, examine phenomena like:

• The reconfiguration of economic values and practices, networks of social reciprocity and solidarity in a context of climate crisis.
• The emergence of gendered economic practices of subsistence, as a way to respond to climate-relate menaces.
• Adjustments and resistance to policies that change economic environments and practices in the name of the climate change.
• The rise of practices of economic resilience through which vulnerable population deal with climate-derived economic crises.
• The development of community-based strategies of recovery and reciprocity in areas recently devastated by disasters related to climate changes, such as wildfires or floodings.