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

RC40 Sociology of Agriculture and Food

Program Coordinators: Kiah SMITH (University of Queensland, Australia) and Katharine LEGUN, Netherlands)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Integrating Values into the Food System: How to Scale Alternative Food Initiatives (Part 2)
Session Organizers: Rike STOTTEN and Nadine ARNOLD

11:00-12:45

Integrating Values into the Food System: How to Scale Alternative Food Initiatives (Part 1)
Session Organizers: Rike STOTTEN and Nadine ARNOLD

13:00-14:45

Valuing Justice in Territorial Markets: Agroecology As a Way of Knowing and Valuing for the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Prof. Allison LOCONTO, PhD, HDR, Paul STOCK and Rachel BEZNER KERR

15:00-16:45

Farmer Experimentation and Knowledge: Assembling Possibilities for Sustainable Agri-Food Futures
Session Organizers: Vaughan HIGGINS and Matt COMI

19:00-20:30

Rural Citizen(ship) in Action: Grassroots Mobilisation for Ecological and Social Change
Session Organizers: José Duarte Medeiros RIBEIRO, Atakan BÜKE and Ayse GUNDUZ HOSGOR

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East
Session Organizer: Cynthia GHARIOS

11:00-12:45

Governance of Global Sustainability Challenges (Part I)
Session Organizers: Hilde BJORKHAUG, Jennifer Leigh BAILEY and Kurt RACHLITZ

13:00-14:45

Governance of Global Sustainability Challenges (Part II)
Session Organizers: Hilde BJORKHAUG, Jennifer Leigh BAILEY and Kurt RACHLITZ

15:00-16:45

Changing Foodways in the Time of Climate Change
Session Organizers: Nadya KARIMASARI and Darmanto DARMANTO
Chair: Darmanto DARMANTO

Policies and Practices for Valorising Agrobiodiversity
Session Organizers: Balint BALAZS, Yuna CHIFFOLEAU and Dalia MATTIONI
Chair: Yuna CHIFFOLEAU

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

International Migration and the Transformation of Agrarian Life and Foodways
Session Organizers: Yasmin ORTIGA and Marvin Joseph MONTEFRIO
Chair: Yasmin ORTIGA

Staying with the Trouble: Complexifying the 'anthropocene' in Agri-Food Studies
Session Organizer: Camille FREEMAN

11:00-12:45

Avant Garde Methodologies for Sustainable Transitions: Agrifood and the Environment
Session Organizers: Steven WOLF and Brian OBACH

Food Solutions in the Anthropocene: The New Forms of Hunger in the 21st Century
Session Organizers: Yuribia VELAZQUEZ GALINDO and Luis BLACHA

13:00-14:45

Decolonizing Sociology of Food and Agriculture: Opportunities and Challenges
Session Organizers: Marvin Joseph MONTEFRIO, Winifredo DAGLI and Angga DWIARTAMA

15:00-16:45

Future Trajectories of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food: An Intergenerational Dialogue
Session Organizers: Atakan BÜKE and Mustafa KOC

19:00-20:30

RC40 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

The Building of Collectives Involving Farmers to Deal with Groundwater Overexploitation
Session Organizers: Nicolas FAYSSE and Zhour BOUZIDI

11:00-12:45

Food As Technologies in the Anthropocene. Bodies, Social Onequality and Artifacts.
Session Organizers: Luis BLACHA and Yuribia VELAZQUEZ GALINDO

13:00-14:45

Innovation Ecosystems and Agtech Development: Engaging Finance Capital for Socioecological Transformation?
Session Organizers: Sarah SIPPEL, Steven WOLF and Cynthia GHARIOS

15:00-16:45

Rurality in Sociolegal Scholarship
Session Organizer: Elizabeth CHAMBLISS
Chair: Corinne DELMAS

19:00-20:30

Plants and Power: Bringing Together New Work on Plants with Political Economies in Agriculture
Session Organizers: Katharine LEGUN and Mark VICOL
Chair: Steven WOLF

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Structure and Change in Alternative Agriculture: The Roles of Policy and Markets in Alternative Food Initiatives
Session Organizer: Katharine LEGUN
Chair: Kiah SMITH

11:00-12:45

Recent Perspectives in the Sociology of Organization and Food – Paper Development Session
Session Organizers: Katerina PSARIKIDOU, Thiago DUARTE PIMENTEL and Robert JUNGMANN

13:00-14:45

Realities and Futures of Seasonal Farm Work in Global Horticulture
Session Organizers: Kiah SMITH and Rafael AZEREDO