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

We are living through a kind of great transformation, equivalent to the Industrial Revolution. Incidentally, it is the history of one that sheds light on the birth of the other. Some pioneers have even called it the logistics revolution. After all, what is at stake is logistics, that thoroughly modern way of basing a global economy on the movement of goods. Mobility of goods, people, information and money. To account for this transformation, in this session we are looking for presentations that describe and reflect on the making of these new world economies, the economic actors they give rise to and those they extinguish, the forms of work and mobilisation they promote, what they build and what they destroy in industrial spaces. These world economies have seen the emergence of warehouses, ports turned into gigantic container parks and landfills. We would like to reflect not only on the economic, social and spatial forms of this transformation, but also on its impact, its force and its violence.