RC07 Futures Research

Program Coordinator:

Markus S. SCHULZ, FLACSO, Mexico, markus@markus-s-schulz.net


Sessions:


A Better Future? Generational Imaginaries In Uncertain Times

AI and Imagined Futures: Sociological Approaches to Expectations and the Politics of Promise

AI and the Futures of Care: Health and Aging In Turbulent Times

Artificial Intelligence and Reconstructive Biographical Narrative Research: Challenges, Limitations, and Possibilities

Belonging In the Global Space: Digital Nomads and Diaspora Identity

Contesting Digital Formations In Turbulent Times: From Internet and Social Media to Generative AI

Contesting Tomorrow: Power, Resistance and Social Futures In the Age of AI and Automation

Critical Perspectives on War, Global Dynamics, and Future Scenarios

Debate on the Future Impact of Technology on Work

Deliberative Democracy In Turbulent Times: Post-Habermasian Reflections

Demographic Imaginations and Migration Futures

Disruption and Mobilization In Turbulent Times: Future Imagination

Early Career Futures Researchers Present

Envisioning Futures: Biographical Possibilities, Systemic Constraints, and Challenges for Social Research

Envisioning Queer Futures of / In Sociology

Future, Crisis, and Political Action In Turbulent Times

Future-Making from below: Social Movements, Temporalities, and Sociologies of the Future

Neither Dystopia Nor Melancholia: Imagining Convivial Futures

New Suns, Old Shadows: Ethnographies of Race, Struggle, and Hope

Open Themes / Temas Abiertas / Thèmes Ouverts

Refusal and Beyond: Between "Non-Working Lives" and Everyday Reorganization of Labor after Withdrawal from Work

Rethinking Development: Interrogating China’s Ecological Civilization Initiative

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

Temporalities In Agriculture and the Environment: Rethinking Technologies, Socionature, and Alternative Futures

The Double-Edged Futures: On How Furture Discourses Enable and Constrain Change

The Future of Democracy In Turbulent Times

The Futures of Doing Research In the Social Sciences In the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): What Can We Do? What Should We Do?