RC38 Biography and Society

Program Coordinators:

Giorgos TSIOLIS, University of Crete, Greece, tsiolisg@uoc.gr

Martín DI MARCO, OsloMet, Norway, martin.dimarco@oslomet.no


Sessions:


(What is wrong with) Biographical Theory

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

Between Globalization, Secularization, and Radicalization: Revisiting Biography and Religious Trajectories

Biographical Perspectives on Democracies In Transformation

Biographical Research and Global Sociology: Fieldwork In Turbulent Times

Collecting, Narrating, Transmitting: Life Stories and the Technologies of the Biographical, from Trace to Algorithm

Difficult Biographies In Turbulent Times: Researching and Narrating Lives In Crisis and Hard-to-Access Fields

Embracing Contingency: Turning Fieldwork Challenges into Biographical Insights

Engaging Biographies Creatively: Methods, Analytical Perspectives and Reflexive Practices

Language As Lived Experience and Methodological Concern In Migration Research

Listening out for the Dead: Biographical Research As Direct Witnesses Are Passing

Living Places: Biographies, Community Histories and Participatory Research In Times of Transformation

Migration, Ageing and Transnational Care Giving

Place, Polyphony and Community Histories: Biographical Approaches to Landscapes, Agency and Social Change

Social Exclusion and Family Memory: Intergenerational Effects of Tabooed Family Histories

Social Relationships In Times of Vulnerability: Biographical Perspectives on Support, Trust, Inclusion and Life Chances

Working and Learning Lives In Transition: Biographical Approaches to Work, Education, Professions, and Social Inequalities