Bodies That Inhabit. Human and More-Than-Human Futures In Turbulent Times

In times marked by ecological disruption, social fragmentation, forced mobility, epistemic inequalities, and growing uncertainty, questions of how life is inhabited, sustained, and reimagined acquire renewed sociological significance. This session invites contributions that explore bodies not as isolated entities, but as relational territories through which belonging, memory, care, knowledge, and collective futures are continuously produced. Bringing body studies into dialogue with plural ontologies, sociocultural-ecological perspectives, ancestral knowledge systems, and critical reflections on science, technology, and society, the session seeks to examine how humans and more-than-human beings co-constitute worlds amid contemporary turbulence. We welcome contributions addressing embodied knowledge, ways of dwelling, territorial belonging, ecological memory, care and wellbeing, sacred relations, Indigenous and traditional knowledge systems, more-than-human relations, and alternative ways of imagining and sustaining life. The session examines human and more-than-human worlds as lived topologies through which knowledge, belonging, and collective futures are continuously woven, and welcomes contributions that explore how bodies, territories, and relational forms of life challenge dominant understandings of development, progress, and sociocultural transformation, while opening pathways towards sociocultural-ecological sustainability.