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

At the XX ISA World Congress, we proposed a joint session in the same context, then TG11 - Violence and Society and RC54 - Body in the Social Sciences, in which a variety of papers highlighted the emergence and diversity of reflection around our own limits when we invoke violence and the body as factors of (dis)encounter in today's pluricultural, pluridisciplinary, pluri-emotional, pluri-gender, and bioplural societies. One basis of the discussion was that the pluriverse of a society can achieve transformative emancipative initiatives. Thus, a Minds-on Atelier (re)visiting this same context is open to bring together a compendium of worldviews and practices, old and new, local and global, emerging from indigenous, peasant and pastoral communities, urban neighbourhoods, environmental, artistic, feminist, and spiritual movements that explore the relationship between violence and the body to share tools that nourish our situatedness (Paulo Freire). This practice seeks to nourish usus beyond our own limitations, trapped in the structures of linear thinking and infinite development, and to sow a future in the dynamics of justice in plural forms. Following Mustapha Khayati, every revolutionary practice feels the need for a new semantics to break the dominant sense and establish new meanings with belonging. Based on Franz Fanon, Michael Foucault, and Judith Butler, this session opens up again, now with a participatory approach, to continue a co-constructive dialogue space that permeates the relationship between violence and the body and strongly encourages all types of work, including those that have an artistic nature as a scientific basis.