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

Working Groups

Monday, 7 July 2025

09:00-10:45

RC11 Sociology of Aging

Elder Abuse and Neglect
Session Organizer: Jolanta PEREK-BIALAS
Chair: Jolanta PEREK-BIALAS

WG10 Digital Sociology

Electronic Citizenship in the Context of Emigration and Immigration: A Comparative Approach to Online Mobilizations of Diasporas from the Global South
Session Organizers: Mireille MANGA and Mary Boatema SETRANA

WG10 Digital Sociology

Engaged Feminist Digital Social Research: Epistemological, Ethical and Political Debates (Part I)
Session Organizers: Elisa GARCIA-MINGO, Jacinto GUTIÉRREZ LORCA and Hector PUENTE-BIENVENIDO

WG08 Society and Emotions

Gender and Emotions in the ‘New’ Far Right: ‘Re-Constructing’ Gender and Masculinities
Session Organizers: Begonya ENGUIX GRAU and Alexandre PICHEL-VAZQUEZ

RC18 Political Sociology

Sociology of Resistance: Palestinian Society As a Case Study
Session Organizer: Dalal BAJES
Chair: Dalal BAJES

WG11 Violence and Society

State, Violence and Society: Border-Crossings, Migration, and State Power
Session Organizers: Margaret ABRAHAM and Evangelia TASTSOGLOU
Chair: Margaret ABRAHAM

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

The Role of International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) in Promoting Social Justice in the Global South
Session Organizers: Augusto GAMUZZA and Marco CASELLI

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

The Social Organization of Care for Chronic Illness: Explorations, Discoveries, and Critiques
Session Organizers: Leigha COMER and Graham MACDONALD

11:00-12:45

RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences

Bodies, (trans) Genders and Violences
Session Organizer: Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA
Chair: Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA

WG10 Digital Sociology

Digitalization, Digital Transformation and Economic Development in the Global South
Session Organizer: Gabriel FAIMAU

WG08 Society and Emotions

Emotions and Affects in School Settings: Sociological Insights for Their Understanding. (Part I)
Session Organizers: Mariana NOBILE and Aina TARABINI

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Epistemic Injustice/Injusticias Epistémicas
Session Organizers: Maria Teresa MARTIN PALOMO and Andrea SOUTO GARCIA
Chair: Maria Teresa MARTIN PALOMO

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Post-Globalization and Neo-Traditionalist Solidarities Among Brics Countries
Session Organizer: Dmitry IVANOV

WG08 Society and Emotions

Poverty, Social Policies and "New Commodifications" (1)
Session Organizers: Eva SOTOMAYOR and Angelica DE SENA

WG11 Violence and Society

Terrains of Possibility for Non-State Uses of Interpersonal or Intergroup Violence
Session Organizers: Karen MILLER and Colleen WOODS
Chair: Amy CHIN

13:00-14:45

WG08 Society and Emotions

Cold Emotions: Experiencing the Violence of War through Social Media
Session Organizer: Paola REBUGHINI

RC39 Sociology of Disasters

Digital Sociology of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management
Session Organizers: Jerome CLEOFAS and Marlon ERA

WG10 Digital Sociology

Dignified Aging in the Digital Age? (Part I)
Session Organizers: Ana VUKOVIC and Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK
Chair: Ana VUKOVIC

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Doing Participatory, Community-Engaged, and Collaborative Institutional Ethnographies (IE).
Session Organizer: Naomi NICHOLS NICHOLS
Chair: Adriana SUÁREZ DELUCCHI

WG11 Violence and Society

Interrogating Femicide and Feminicide: From the Local to the Global
Session Organizers: Myrna DAWSON and Martín DI MARCO

TG12 Social Love and Solidarity

Social Love and Solidarity between Emotions and Actions: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges for Social Research
Session Organizers: Gennaro IORIO, Maria Carmela CATONE and Angela DELLI PAOLI

WG10 Digital Sociology

Sociological Theories of the Digital
Session Organizer: Attila MARTON
Chair: Attila MARTON

15:00-16:45

WG10 Digital Sociology

Dignified Aging in the Digital Age? (Part II)
Session Organizers: Ana VUKOVIC and Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK
Chair: Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK

WG08 Society and Emotions

Emotions and Affects in School Settings: Sociological Insights for Their Understanding. (Part II)
Session Organizers: Mariana NOBILE and Aina TARABINI

WG10 Digital Sociology

Methodological Challenges in Digital Sociology in the AI Era
Session Organizers: Anu MASSO, Berenika DYCZEK and Marcin STARNAWSKI

WG08 Society and Emotions

Sociology of Emotions in China and Contemporary Issues
Session Organizer: Jingting ZHANG

WG11 Violence and Society

State Violence and Society: Coercive Powers of States across Borders
Session Organizer: Margaret ABRAHAM
Chair: Shobha HAMAL GURUNG

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

WG01 Business Meeting

19:00-20:30

WG08 Society and Emotions

Empathy and Social Relations
Session Organizers: Gennaro IORIO and Vincenzo AURIEMMA

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Ethnographic Approaches to Research
Session Organizer: Kjeld HOGSBRO

WG11 Violence and Society

Gendered Violence, Abuse and Exploitation in the Shadow of Bordering Regimes and Border Control
Session Organizer: Sundari ANITHA
Chair: Sundari ANITHA

WG10 Digital Sociology

Keynote Address
Session Organizer: David DUENAS-CID

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

The Empires behind the Imperial Mode of Living
Session Organizer: Dr. Haimo SCHULZ MEINEN, PhD, MA

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

09:00-10:45

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Ethnographing Access to Rights in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Lauriane DOS SANTOS and Leila DRIF

WG10 Digital Sociology

Internet Uses Associated with Hate Speech (Part I)
Session Organizers: Pilar RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ and Nuria RODRIGUEZ AVILA

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Intersectionality in Research Practice/ La Interseccionalidad En La Práctica Investigadora / L´Intersectionnalité Dans La Pratique De Recherche
Session Organizer: Paul LUKEN
Chair: Andrea SOUTO GARCIA

WG11 Violence and Society

The Impact of Violence: Its Consequences for Memory, Representation, and Trauma I
Session Organizer: Lynn RAPAPORT

WG08 Society and Emotions

Towards a Sociology of Hope
Session Organizer: Adrian SCRIBANO

11:00-12:45

WG08 Society and Emotions

Emotions at Work: Stress, Self-Management and Digital Dynamics
Session Organizers: Pedro LISDERO, Mustafa Berkay AYDIN and Cagdas CAGDAS CEYHAN

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

IE: Methodological Issues and Innovations
Session Organizer: Adriana SUÁREZ DELUCCHI

WG10 Digital Sociology

Internet Uses Associated with Hate Speech (Part II)
Session Organizers: Pilar RODRIGUEZ MARTINEZ and Janara SOUSA

WG11 Violence and Society

The Impact of Violence: Its Consequences for Memory, Representation, and Trauma III
Session Organizer: Lynn RAPAPORT

WG10 Digital Sociology

Transforming Collective Action: From Digital Activism to Datafied Movements (Part I)
Session Organizers: Anabel QUAN-HAASE and Jared WRIGHT
Chair: Jared WRIGHT

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Women Empowerment in Globalizing World: Conceptual Issues and Empirical Reality
Session Organizers: Madhu SISODIA and Sudeep KAUR

13:00-14:45

RC02 Economy and Society

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

WG10 Digital Sociology

Cyberviolence Against Women and Girls
Session Organizers: Nuria RODRIGUEZ AVILA and Janara SOUSA

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Exploring Socio-Environmental Dynamics and Development through Institutional Ethnography
Session Organizer: Lauren EASTWOOD

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Globalization, Democracies and the Rise of Authoritarianism in Contemporary World
Session Organizers: Virendra P. SINGH, Parvez Ahmad ABBASI and Shreepal CHAUHAN

WG08 Society and Emotions

Love As Collective Action: Bodies, Emotions, and Sensibilities (1)
Session Organizer: Adrian SCRIBANO

WG11 Violence and Society

The Impact of Violence: Its Consequences for Memory, Representation, and Trauma II
Session Organizer: Lynn RAPAPORT

WG10 Digital Sociology

Transforming Collective Action: From Digital Activism to Datafied Movements (Part II)
Session Organizers: Anabel QUAN-HAASE and Jared WRIGHT
Chair: Anabel QUAN-HAASE

15:00-16:45

WG10 Digital Sociology

AI, Gender and the Future of Work
Session Organizer: Tanja CARSTENSEN

RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences

Bodies, Emotions and Sensibilities in the Present Time
Session Organizer: Dulce Maria FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA
Chair: Victoria D'HERS

RC18 Political Sociology

Democratic Innovations
Session Organizer: Lucia MIRANDA-LEIBE

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Democratisation of Media Platforms in a Globalised World
Session Organizers: Sarvesh DUTT TRIPATHI and Vinay SHANKER

WG11 Violence and Society

Gendered Violence and Social Regulation of Gender Relations: Family, Law and the State
Session Organizer: Elspeth MCINNES

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Institutional Ethnography in Postcolonial and Cross-Cultural Settings
Session Organizers: Adriana SUÁREZ DELUCCHI and Ann Christin NILSEN

RC22 Sociology of Religion

New Frontiers in the Study of Digital Religion
Session Organizers: Avi ASTOR and Dr. Daisy BARMAN

19:00-20:30

WG10 Digital Sociology

Digital Knowledge for Justice in the Anthropocene
Session Organizers: Prof. Jelica STEFANOVIC STAMBUK and Ana VUKOVIC
Chair: Ana VUKOVIC

WG08 Society and Emotions

Touch and the Emotions from a More-Than-Human Perspective: Discoveries in Frogs, Cats, Primates, … and Humans
Session Organizer: Jingting ZHANG
Chair: Nicolas ARENAS

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

WG06 Business Meeting

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

09:00-10:45

WG10 Digital Sociology

A Society of Genai?
Session Organizer: Attila MARTON
Chair: Attila MARTON

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Institutional Ethnography in Higher Education: Insights and Possibilities
Session Organizer: Laura PARSON
Chair: Laura PARSON

WG08 Society and Emotions

Love As Collective Action: Bodies, Emotions, and Sensibilities (2)
Session Organizer: Monica MESQUITA, Ph.D.

WG11 Violence and Society

State, Violence and Society: Between State and Justice
Session Organizer: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU
Chair: Evangelia TASTSOGLOU

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

The Politics of Masculinities in Neoliberal South Korea
Session Organizer: Seungsook MOON

WG08 Society and Emotions

Towards a Sociology of Hope (2)
Session Organizer: Paul WARD
Chair: Alexandre ZARIAS

11:00-12:45

WG08 Society and Emotions

Affect, Emotions, Feelings, Senses, Sensibilities: Conceptual Consistencies and Inconsistencies (1)
Session Organizers: Mark PATERSON and Nicolas ARENAS

WG11 Violence and Society

Inspecting Lives of Those Who Harm – Joint Session WG11 ‘Violence and Society’ & RC38 ‘Biography and Society’
Session Organizers: Dabney EVANS and Martín DI MARCO

WG10 Digital Sociology

Online Conspiracy-Making and Digital Ethnography
Session Organizer: Danaé LEITENBERG

WG08 Society and Emotions

Sensibilities in Women: Experiencies of Mothers, Workers and Wifes
Session Organizers: Gabriela VERGARA and Lois Liao LOIS LIAO

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

The Image of the Future As a Factor of Actual Social and Political Relations in a Hybrid Reality.
Session Organizer: Nataliya VELIKAYA

13:00-14:45

WG10 Digital Sociology

A Sociology of Digital Government: How Has Citizens' Experience of the State Been Transformed?
Session Organizer: Paolo GERBAUDO

RC07 Futures Research

Disinformation and Framing Battles in the New Technomediatic Public Sphere
Session Organizer: Richard MISKOLCI

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

News Tendencies in the Global Work. Comparative Scales of Informality, Precarity and Unemployment
Session Organizers: Deepthi SHANKER and Dr. Francisco FAVIERI

WG11 Violence and Society

State, Violence and Society: The Coercive Powers of States
Session Organizers: Margaret ABRAHAM and Evangelia TASTSOGLOU
Chair: Shobha HAMAL GURUNG

WG08 Society and Emotions

Wandering Emotions
Session Organizer: Juan A. ROCHE CARCEL

15:00-16:45

WG10 Digital Sociology

Digital Sociology Search for Understanding the Power Dynamics of Data Flows
Session Organizers: Anu MASSO, Berenika DYCZEK and Anabel QUAN-HAASE
Chairs: Berenika DYCZEK, Barbara NEVES and Anabel QUAN-HAASE

WG11 Violence and Society

Palestinian Childhoods – Growing up in Contexts of Violence and Exclusion
Session Organizers: Ravinder BARN and Doris BUEHLER-NIEDERBERGER
Chair: Vassilis TSIANOS

RC02 Economy and Society

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

WG10 Digital Sociology

The Bright and Dark Sides of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Its Potential Solutions
Session Organizer: Esther BRAININ

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

The Crisis of Modernity and Changing World Order
Session Organizers: Virendra P. SINGH and Preeti TIWARI

19:00-20:30

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Investigating Resistance with Institutional Ethnography
Session Organizer: Sarah MURRU

WG08 Society and Emotions

Politics of Emotions in the Era Capitalocene: Exploring the Universe of End-of-the-World Sensibilities
Session Organizers: Adrian SCRIBANO and Horacio MACHADO ARAOZ

WG10 Digital Sociology

WG10 Business Meeting

WG11 Violence and Society

WG11 Business Meeting

Thursday, 10 July 2025

09:00-10:45

WG11 Violence and Society

Debates on Juvenile Criminal Issues (Part I)
Session Organizers: Carolina GONZÁLEZ LAURINO and Sandra LEOPOLD COSTABILE

WG08 Society and Emotions

Food, Eating and Emotions (1)
Session Organizer: María Victoria SORDINI

RC10 Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management

Governing Digital Commons: Diversity, Inclusion and Democratic Participation
Session Organizer: Dr. Stefan LUCKING

RC02 Economy and Society

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

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Reshaping Global Sociology to Focus on the Global Majority
Session Organizer: Caroline SCHOEPF

11:00-12:45

WG11 Violence and Society

Debates on Juvenile Criminal Issues (Part II)
Session Organizers: Carolina GONZÁLEZ LAURINO and Sandra LEOPOLD COSTABILE

RC22 Sociology of Religion

Embodiment, Emotions, and Religiousness (Part I)
Session Organizers: Arely del Carmen TORRES MEDINA, Susana Alejandra SOTOMAYOR and Hilda MAZARIEGOS HERRERARA

WG08 Society and Emotions

Poverty, Social Policies and "New Commodifications" (2)
Session Organizers: Eva SOTOMAYOR and Angelica DE SENA

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Social Contract: Evolution of Ideas and Practices
Session Organizer: Miroslava TSAPKO
Chair: Natalia BELOVA

WG10 Digital Sociology

Tech Workers in Current Times: Contexts, Identities, and Actions
Session Organizer: Dr. Rianka ROY
Chair: Deepali DUNGDUNG

13:00-14:45

RC07 Futures Research

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part I)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

WG11 Violence and Society

Domestic Labour, Violence and Exploitation: Global Gendered Perspectives
Session Organizers: Shih Joo TAN and Sundari ANITHA

WG08 Society and Emotions

Emotions and Consumption in the Digitalized World: The Case of Influencers on Social Media
Session Organizers: Maria MAIRANO and Jingting ZHANG

WG10 Digital Sociology

Smart of Just Smartass City? Insights into the Development and Impact of Smart Cities
Session Organizers: Prof. Anna DOMARADZKA, Associate Professor and Mateusz TROCHYMIAK

RC24 Environment and Society

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

RC02 Economy and Society

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

15:00-16:45

WG08 Society and Emotions

Affect, Emotions, Feelings, Senses, Sensibilities: Conceptual Consistencies and Inconsistencies (2)
Session Organizers: Nicolas ARENAS and Mark PATERSON

RC07 Futures Research

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part II)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Heuristic Methods for Studying the “Good Society” Model As the Basis for Integration Processes of Society Consolidation.
Session Organizers: Elena IRSETSKAYA and Preeti TIWARI

WG10 Digital Sociology

Personal Insecurity and the Anthropocene - What Are People Experiencing in Their Media Use?
Session Organizers: Ichiyo HABUCHI and Izumi TSUJI

WG11 Violence and Society

Violence in Contemporary Society: Examining Contributors to and Consequences of Increasing Polarization.
Session Organizers: Myrna DAWSON and Yans DIPATI

19:00-20:30

WG10 Digital Sociology

Myths and Realities of Digitalisation
Session Organizer: Dr. Stefan LUCKING

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

Using IE for Social Justice in Socio-Legal Studies and Related Fields
Session Organizers: Morena TARTARI and Gary BARRON

WG08 Society and Emotions

WG08 Business Meeting

Friday, 11 July 2025

09:00-10:45

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Anthropocene and the Global-Local Relations
Session Organizer: Deepthi SHANKER

RC07 Futures Research

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part III)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

WG10 Digital Sociology

Digital Health and Wellbeing: Sociological Perspectives on Emerging Technologies
Session Organizers: Mikolaj BIESAGA, Prof. Anna DOMARADZKA, Associate Professor and Ewa DOMARADZKA

WG08 Society and Emotions

Emotions in Social Movements: New Approaches and Methodological Innovations
Session Organizers: Cecile VAN DE VELDE and Karla HENRIQUEZ OJEDA

WG11 Violence and Society

Violence and Society I: A Focus on Institutional, State and/or Political Violence
Session Organizer: Myrna DAWSON

11:00-12:45

RC07 Futures Research

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part IV)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

WG08 Society and Emotions

Food, Eating and Emotions (2)
Session Organizer: María Victoria SORDINI

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Media, AI, and the Global South: Shaping New Narratives
Session Organizers: Atish PRASHAR and Pawan KOUNDAL

WG06 Institutional Ethnography

The Future of Institutional Ethnographic Research: Mentoring Doctoral and Early Career Research across Institutions
Session Organizer: Nerida SPINA
Chair: Janet RANKIN

WG10 Digital Sociology

Trust and Distrust in the Digital Society (Part I)
Session Organizer: David DUENAS-CID

WG11 Violence and Society

Violence and Society II: Experiences of Violence in the Lives of Women and Children
Session Organizer: Martín DI MARCO

13:00-14:45

WG11 Violence and Society

Challenges and Opportunities in Measuring Violence
Session Organizer: Oliver NAHKUR

RC07 Futures Research

Digital Futures: Contesting Power and Visions (Part V)
Session Organizer: Markus S. SCHULZ

RC22 Sociology of Religion

Embodiment, Emotions, and Religiousness (Part II)
Session Organizers: Arely del Carmen TORRES MEDINA, Susana Alejandra SOTOMAYOR and Hilda MAZARIEGOS HERRERARA

WG10 Digital Sociology

Trust and Distrust in the Digital Society (Part II)
Session Organizer: David DUENAS-CID
Chair: Thomas ZENKL

WG11 Violence and Society

Violence and Society IV: Examining Various Forms of Violence and Societal Responses
Session Organizer: Martín DI MARCO

WG01 Sociology of Local-Global Relations

Visual Art and the Mediation of Climate Change Issues Beyond Populism: The Aesthetic Calculation of Global-Local Publics
Session Organizers: Anna SCHOBER, Martina TRITTHART and Florian GUCHER
Chair: Anna SCHOBER

15:00-16:45

WG10 Digital Sociology

Engaged Feminist Digital Social Research: Epistemological, Ethical and Political Debates (Part II)
Session Organizers: Elisa GARCIA-MINGO, Jacinto GUTIÉRREZ LORCA and Hector PUENTE-BIENVENIDO

RC48 Social Movements, Collective Actions and Social Change

Student Camps in Solidarity with Palestine. Protest Against the International Order in Light of a Genocide
Session Organizers: Marcela MENESES REYES and Camila PONCE LARA
Chair: Olga Alejandra SABIDO RAMOS