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

RC24 Environment and Society

Program Coordinator: Jo LINDSAY (Monash University, Australia)

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Climate Change Transitions: Challenges, Variations and Pathways of Socio-Ecological Change (Part I)
Session Organizers: Emiliano SCANU and Florence RUDOLF

Revisiting the Housing Question As a Social-Ecological Question (Part I)
Session Organizer: Margaret HADERER
Chair: Margaret HADERER

11:00-12:45

Climate Change Transitions: Challenges, Variations and Pathways of Socio-Ecological Change (Part II)
Session Organizers: Emiliano SCANU and Florence RUDOLF

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

13:00-14:45

Climate Change, Challenges, and Local Responses in Africa (Part I)
Session Organizer: Lotsmart FONJONG

Rethinking of Home and Reparation in the Context of Climate Change
Session Organizers: Haisu HUANG and Andrea LAMPIS

[Un]Gendering Environmental Sociology: Bringing Power Back into the Discussion
Session Organizers: Angeline LETOURNEAU and Rezvaneh ERFANI

15:00-16:45

Climate Change, Challenges, and Local Responses in Africa (Part II)
Session Organizer: Lotsmart FONJONG

Revisiting the Housing Question As a Social-Ecological Question (Part II)
Session Organizer: Margaret HADERER

19:00-20:30

RC24 Business Meeting

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Environmental Justice in the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Stewart LOCKIE
Chair: Mark STODDART

Families, Gender, and Environmental Labour in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Jo LINDSAY and Pei-Chun KO
Chair: Pei-Chun KO

Sociology of Environmental Activism and Citizenship: Collective Action in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Rezvaneh ERFANI and Andrea LAMPIS

11:00-12:45

Consequences of Gender Violence: Victimization of Women, Teenagers and Children Part 2
Session Organizers: Melissa DE MATTOS PIMENTA and Rochele FACHINETTO

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

New Directions in Environmental Sociology
Session Organizer: Stewart LOCKIE

13:00-14:45

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

Socio-Environmental Precariousness: Cultural Economic Responses to Climate Crisis
Session Organizer: Miguel PÉREZ

15:00-16:45

Effective Strategies to Combat Inequality in Environmental and Climate Justice
Session Organizers: Kerry ARD and Riley DUNLAP

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

Sustainable Development, Vulnerability and Justice in the Anthropocene (Part I)
Session Organizer: Nicholas THEIS

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Climate Action and Justice Issues: What Happens When Decarbonization Comes into Conflict with Energy Justice, Climate Justice, or Indigenous Rights? (Part I)
Session Organizers: Mark STODDART, Angeline LETOURNEAU and Pradip SWARNAKAR

Discussing Futures of Globalization
Session Organizer: Ulrike SCHUERKENS

11:00-12:45

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

Climate Action and Justice Issues: What Happens When Decarbonization Comes into Conflict with Energy Justice, Climate Justice, or Indigenous Rights? (Part II)
Session Organizers: Mark STODDART, Angeline LETOURNEAU and Pradip SWARNAKAR

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

13:00-14:45

Gender and the Environment in the Global South and Global North
Session Organizer: Navjotpal KAUR

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

Productions of Ignorance and Environmental Injustice
Session Organizers: Manuel VALLEE and Kerry ARD

15:00-16:45

A Sociology of the Unthinkable: Grappling with the Climate Emergency
Session Organizer: Debra DAVIDSON

Indigenous Epistemologies and Social Justice in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Liliana OROPEZA ACOSTA and Devrim EREN

Multiple Civil Spheres Shaping Environmental Solidarities
Session Organizer: Gilles VERPRAET

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

Anticipatory Knowledge, Future Imaginaries and Societal Agency in Ecological Transformations (Part I)
Session Organizers: Stefan C. AYKUT, Nicolas BAYA-LAFFITE and Lise CORNILLEAU

Author Meets Critics on Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability
Session Organizer: Manisha ANANTHARAMAN

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

11:00-12:45

Anticipatory Knowledge, Future Imaginaries and Societal Agency in Ecological Transformations (Part II)
Session Organizers: Stefan C. AYKUT, Nicolas BAYA-LAFFITE and Lise CORNILLEAU

Consumption and Consumerism in the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Jo LINDSAY

The Cultural Pragmatics of the Environment: From Local to Global Challenges, Ideas, Identities, Inquiries, and Problems in Everyday Performances and Practices Part 11
Session Organizers: Charles BERTHELET and Marjolaine LAMONTAGNE LAMONTAGNE

13:00-14:45

Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour (Part I)
Session Organizer: Lotsmart FONJONG

How Nongovernment Organizations Affect Justice and Equity in Climate Disasters: New Directions in Theory and Practice
Session Organizers: Michelle MEYER and Gregory WITKOWSKI

The Cultural Pragmatics of the Environment: From Local to Global Challenges, Ideas, Identities, Inquiries, and Problems in Everyday Performances and Practices Part 1
Session Organizers: Charles BERTHELET and Marjolaine LAMONTAGNE LAMONTAGNE

15:00-16:45

Environmental Attitudes and Behaviour (Part II)
Session Organizer: Lotsmart FONJONG

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

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

New Forms of Communication and Societal Engagement with Climate Research
Session Organizers: Jaron HARAMBAM and Willemine WILLEMS

Sustainable Development, Vulnerability and Justice in the Anthropocene (Part II)
Session Organizer: Nicholas THEIS

11:00-12:45

Social Justice and the Environment
Session Organizer: Jo LINDSAY

Water and Governance in the Anthropocene (Part I)
Session Organizer: Henrike RAU

13:00-14:45

War Ecology and Society in the Anthropocene
Session Organizer: Paul JOBIN

Water and Governance in the Anthropocene (Part II)
Session Organizer: Henrike RAU

15:00-16:45

Greenwashing Vs. Climate Integrity
Session Organizers: Atsushi NOZAWA, Takashi NAKAZAWA and Gregory TRENCHER

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