Violence and Society In Times of Turbulence and Crisis: Conflict, Power, and Social Response

“Global Sociology in Turbulent Times” demands that sociology confront escalating forms of violence that define our present. From war and state repression to gender-based violence and digital harassment, violence is intensifying as the climate crisis, geopolitical conflict, and social polarisation disrupt institutions. This session brings violence to the centre of sociological theory on power, inequality, and collective life. These empirical, theoretical, and comparative papers analyse violence as a social relation rather than individual pathology. Papers engage with:

Turbulence and crisis: How climate change, forced migration, economic crisis, and platform capitalism generate new conflict zones and violent exclusions.

The demographic imprints of armed conflict, forced displacement, environmental disasters, epidemics, and socio-economic and political upheavals, reshape population dynamics in ways that are often acute in their onset but protracted in their consequences.

Gender division of family labour and gender-based and domestic violence

Sociocultural contexts of violence: Patterns of behaviour and meaning making

Political and structural violence: War, state violence, police brutality, colonial legacies.

Social inequalities: Intersections of violence with class, caste, gender, ethnicity, race, and generation.

Social resistance and violence reduction strategies: Movements for peace, nonviolence, transitional justice, trauma healing, and community resilience.

Moroccan and African perspectives: transformations in gendered inequality and their implications for conflict and violence

East Asian/Korean perspectives: Historical and contemporary experiences of conflict, division, militarisation, and peacebuilding.

Qualitative and quantitative studies, single-case, comparative and multi-national designs. The session aims to linkmacro-level turbulence to embodied experiences of violence and to social efforts at repair.