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

This session welcomes research, both empirical and theoretical, that works in the emerging intersecting fields of racial, climate and indigenous justice and their intersections. In many parts of the world, the afterlife of coloniality and empires continue to be felt and lived in massive inequalities that include lack of access to land, to water and other basic resources to sustain life. At the same time the structures, values and social attitudes at the heart of the project of racial capitalism maintain position and power globally, strengthened by new nationalisms, populism and anti-immigrant movements. Research that provides critiques of racial capitalism (Robinson 2000, Bhattacharyya 2018), radical feminism (bell hooks 2000, Butler 2024, Lorde 2017, Weheliye 2014), black studies (Mbembe 2017, 2019), Indigenous studies (Moreton-Robinson 2015, Lori 2022) and critical border studies (Anderson 2019, Tofighian and Tazreiter 2023, Loughlan 2022) offer not only important evaluation of the state of the world as it is and its complex histories, but offer alternative futures. Critically in this endeavour, these epistemologies also contribute to theorising environmental justice and its links to climate risks and disasters, identifying the unequal distribution of such risks and disasters globally with highest impacts on Indigenous populations, migrants and refugees and displaced persons as well as those experiencing extreme poverty.

Papers are welcome that engage with these debates.