RC02 Economy and Society

Program Coordinators:

Karen SHIRE, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany, karen.shire@uni-due.de

Nadya ARAUJO GUIMARAES, University of São Paulo, Brazil, nadya@usp.br

Michelle Fei-yu HSIEH, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, mhsieh17@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Rebecca PEARSE, Australian National University, Australia, rebecca.pearse@anu.edu.au

Heidi GOTTFRIED, Wayne State University, USA, heidi.gottfried@wayne.edu

Dr. Ece KOCABICAK, The Open University, United Kingdom, ece.kocabicak@open.ac.uk

Kwang-Yeong SHIN, Chung-Ang University, South Korea, kyshin20@gmail.com


Sessions:


After Globalization? the Economic, Political, and Social Transformation of World Society

Are Karl Marx's "Perpetuum Mobile" and/or Max Weber's "Machine State" Dominating Labor Today? Why or Why Not?

Business and Society Relations In Twenty-First-Century East Asia

Capitalism Under Climate Change: Dynamics and Possibilities

Care In a Turbulent World

Changing Careers and Life Courses across East Asia In Turbulent Times

Co-Evolving Industry-Labor Transitions In Future Mobility: Asian Trajectories and Global Comparisons

Contemporary Colonialism: Modes of Domination, Violence, and Memory

Cross-Border Labour Markets and Gender

Cultural, Moral, and Ethical Struggles In Markets

Digital Transformation and the Future of Work: Shifts In Capitalism and New Social Conflicts

Dis/Assembling Culture: Towards a Critical Sociology of Contemporary Valuation Practices

Economy and Society In the Age of Digital Capitalism

Industrial Work and Its Future

Legitimacy, Development, and Green Transformation In the Global South: An Economic Sociology Perspective

Platform Institutions, Labour Processes and Collective Action In East Asia: Comparative Perspectives

Politicizing Communities and Local Everydayness Against Capitalism

Problematizing Economic Realities: Assemblages, Publics, and Political Action

Reconfiguring Social Reproduction In Asia

Rethinking Development: Interrogating China’s Ecological Civilization Initiative

Rethinking Frameworks for Understanding Inequalities: Insights from Asian Experience

Rethinking Inequality In a Changing Global Order

Social and Solidarity Economy and Human Rights: Addressing Contemporary Social Challenges

Societal Transitions between Transformations and Systemic Changes

South Korea's Digital Sociology In (or without) a Comparative Perspective

Standards In Turbulent Times: Geopolitics, Labour, and Capture from 5G to AI

Strategies Against Disruptive Politics In Comparative Intersectional Perspective

The Global Diffusion of AI and Its Link to Social, Economic, and Political Inequality

The Persistence of Protest: Labor and Social Movements In South Korea

The Social Relevance of Intermediation In Markets: Power, Trust, and Value Formation (II)

Urban Capitalist Articulations

Varieties & Modalities of Asian Capitalisms