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

RC02 Economy and Society

Program Coordinators: Nadya ARAUJO GUIMARAES (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Ece KOCABICAK (The Open University, United Kingdom), Heidi GOTTFRIED (Wayne State University, USA), Karen SHIRE (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Michelle Fei-yu HSIEH (Academia Sinica, Taiwan), Rebecca PEARSE (Australian National University, Australia) and Sandhya AS (Bielefeld University, Germany)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Entrepreneurship and Enterprises from the Lens of Justice
Session Organizers: Paromita SANYAL, Jillet SAM and Rajorshi RAY

Special Panel for Early Career Researchers (I)
Session Organizer: Sandhya AS
Chair: Sandhya AS

11:00-12:45

Knowledge about Organizations That Every Sociologist Needs
Session Organizer: Michael GROTHE-HAMMER

Special Panel for Early Career Researchers (II)
Session Organizer: Sandhya AS
Chair: Sandhya AS

13:00-14:45

The Continued Relevance of Marxism Today
Session Organizer: David FASENFEST

15:00-16:45

Disaster Socialism?
Session Organizer: William CARROLL

19:00-20:30

Wealth and Human-Nature Relationships in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Isabell STAMM and Franziska WIEST
Chair: Isabell STAMM

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Inequalities of Access and Cross-Border Labor Markets
Session Organizers: Janina PUDER and Anja WEISS
Chair: Janina PUDER

The Impact of South African Direct Investments in the Promotion of Social Justice and Equitable Development in the Rest of Africa
Session Organizer: Beata MTYINGIZANA BUHLUNGU
Chair: Il Joon CHUNG

11:00-12:45

Authors Meet Critics: Against Abandonment: Repertoires of Solidarity in South Korean Protest By Jennifer Jihye Chun and Ju Hui Judy Han
Session Organizers: Jennifer CHUN and Ju Hui Judy HAN

Building the Environmental State: Markets, Movements, Bureaucracies
Session Organizer: Rebecca PEARSE

13:00-14:45

Authors Meet Critics: Trafficking Chains: Modern Slavery in Society By Sylvia Walby and Karen Shire
Session Organizer: Heidi GOTTFRIED
Chair: Heidi GOTTFRIED

Chinese Investments in Africa and Other World Regions and the Just Transition Path
Session Organizer: Alicia GIRÓN GONZÁLEZ

15:00-16:45

Democratic Innovations
Session Organizer: Lucia MIRANDA-LEIBE

Navigating Authoritarian Capitalisms: Insights from Variegated Perspectives on Labor, Gender, and Social Economies
Session Organizer: Kaxton SIU

19:00-20:30

Subjection and Struggle of Non-Movers, Migrants, and Refugees: A Dual Marginal Space and the Nation-State
Session Organizers: Hideo AOKI and Sara PARK
Chair: Sara PARK

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Discussing Futures of Globalization
Session Organizer: Ulrike SCHUERKENS

Varieties of Care across the Global North and South Part I
Session Organizer: Nadya ARAUJO GUIMARAES
Chair: Heidi GOTTFRIED

11:00-12:45

Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments (Part I)
Session Organizers: Kurt RACHLITZ, Michael GROTHE-HAMMER and Jennifer Leigh BAILEY

Varieties of Care across the Global North and South Part II
Session Organizer: Heidi GOTTFRIED
Chair: Heidi GOTTFRIED

13:00-14:45

Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments (Part II)
Session Organizers: Kurt RACHLITZ, Michael GROTHE-HAMMER and Jennifer Leigh BAILEY

World-Economic Change and Waves of Social Protest: Findings from the Global Social Protest Database, 1851-2023
Session Organizers: Corey PAYNE and Beverly SILVER

15:00-16:45

Revisiting Revolutions: Debates and Trajectories
Session Organizers: Heidi GOTTFRIED and Valentine M. MOGHADAM
Chair: Heidi GOTTFRIED

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Cross-Border Labor Markets: Actors, Infrastructures and Institutions
Session Organizer: Karen SHIRE
Chair: Karen SHIRE

Personal Branding for Professors-Researchers
Session Organizers: Mounya CHAHBOUNE, Mouna HILMI and Sanâa BOUAROUROU

11:00-12:45

India’s Migration-Development Regime: A New Analytical Framework for Labor Migration
Session Organizer: Rina AGARWALA
Chair: Rina AGARWALA

Infrastructures and Social Sciences
Session Organizers: Andrea BORGHINI, Luca CORCHIA and Enrico CAMPO ENRICO

13:00-14:45

Economic Sociology of Transnational Labor: Skills, Sectors & Finance
Session Organizer: Karen SHIRE

The Political Economy of Violence
Session Organizer: Ece KOCABICAK
Chair: Hakan SANDAL-WILSON

15:00-16:45

The Economic Sociology of Migration
Session Organizer: Karen SHIRE

19:00-20:30

RC02 Business Meeting

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Re-Imagining Finance from Queer, Religious, and Cooperative Perspectives
Session Organizer: Aaron PITLUCK
Chair: Aaron PITLUCK

11:00-12:45

Relational and Cultural Analyses of Finance
Session Organizer: Aaron PITLUCK
Chair: Aaron PITLUCK

13:00-14:45

Another Wave of Liberalization/Marketization of the Labor Markets? the Examination of the Rise of Online Labor Platforms
Session Organizer: Jun IMAI
Chair: Jun IMAI

15:00-16:45

Possible Alliances for Redistributive, Feasible and Just Development Transformations
Session Organizer: Su-ming KHOO