IN PERSON ONLY SESSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Theme: Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene The V ISA Forum of Sociology will take place in Rabat, Morocco on July 6-11, 2025. This is the first ISA Forum to be held in the region and specifically in a country that is known for being at the crossroads of civilizations spanning the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa. The Forum coincides with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and Sociological Film Festival. The Forum will bring together sociologists from around the world to unpack this complex theme. Our point of departure lies in the recognition of the Anthropocene and the environmental concerns that accompany it. This word entered our lexicon at the turn of the Millennium when geologists first began to identify what they considered to be irreversible geological traces of human societies on the planet. In March 2024, the ‘scientists’ (according to a New York Times reporter) decided that no, we were not really in a new geological epoch. But the journalist noted that the term had already gained so much importance in anthropology and history that it will most likely stay relevant in societies. This situation of contested knowledges is precisely what we will tackle in Rabat. What does it mean to “know” in the context of the Anthropocene? Whose knowledge counts? What forms of knowing (understood in its feminist and relational sense) are prioritized, and with what consequences, in societal change? While some sub-disciplines have been actively contributing to academic and public debates, sociology writ large has not been at the center of these debates regarding the conditions of living with and in the Anthropocene. How might engaging the sociological imagination in discussions of the Anthropocene better equip sociologists and citizens to contribute to these public debates about our individual and collective capacities to live together in such an epoch? This brings us to the question of justice. How do we know what is fair and just? Can we forge new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene? What can sociology contribute to how we know justice among knowledges (ontological and 2 epistemic justice) or about aspects of our social worlds, such as environmental justice, legal justice, transitional justice, land justice, water justice, interspecies justice, racial justice, ethnic justice, or gender justice? What new questions are opened about these types of relations when the conditions of the Anthropocene are taken seriously? Proposed themes should be based on the above description of contested knowledges and new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene as they relate RC 10 focus areas. Please propose your sessions via the online session proposal submission system by 30 June 2024 (24:00h UTC/GMT). Link: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/cfs.cgi Please note that in the case your proposed session is selected, at least one session organiser must be an active ISA member before July 31, 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.isasociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025 For inquiries, please contact the Programme Coordinators: Sheetal Bhoola: sheetalbhoola@gmail.com Michela Freddano: michela.freddano@invalsi.it Dasarath Chetty: chettytd@gmail.comIN PERSON ONLY SESSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Theme: Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene The V ISA Forum of Sociology will take place in Rabat, Morocco on July 6-11, 2025. This is the first ISA Forum to be held in the region and specifically in a country that is known for being at the crossroads of civilizations spanning the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa. The Forum coincides with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and Sociological Film Festival. The Forum will bring together sociologists from around the world to unpack this complex theme. Our point of departure lies in the recognition of the Anthropocene and the environmental concerns that accompany it. This word entered our lexicon at the turn of the Millennium when geologists first began to identify what they considered to be irreversible geological traces of human societies on the planet. In March 2024, the ‘scientists’ (according to a New York Times reporter) decided that no, we were not really in a new geological epoch. But the journalist noted that the term had already gained so much importance in anthropology and history that it will most likely stay relevant in societies. This situation of contested knowledges is precisely what we will tackle in Rabat. What does it mean to “know” in the context of the Anthropocene? Whose knowledge counts? What forms of knowing (understood in its feminist and relational sense) are prioritized, and with what consequences, in societal change? While some sub-disciplines have been actively contributing to academic and public debates, sociology writ large has not been at the center of these debates regarding the conditions of living with and in the Anthropocene. How might engaging the sociological imagination in discussions of the Anthropocene better equip sociologists and citizens to contribute to these public debates about our individual and collective capacities to live together in such an epoch? This brings us to the question of justice. How do we know what is fair and just? Can we forge new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene? What can sociology contribute to how we know justice among knowledges (ontological and 2 epistemic justice) or about aspects of our social worlds, such as environmental justice, legal justice, transitional justice, land justice, water justice, interspecies justice, racial justice, ethnic justice, or gender justice? What new questions are opened about these types of relations when the conditions of the Anthropocene are taken seriously? Proposed themes should be based on the above description of contested knowledges and new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene as they relate RC 10 focus areas. Please propose your sessions via the online session proposal submission system by 30 June 2024 (24:00h UTC/GMT). Link: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/cfs.cgi Please note that in the case your proposed session is selected, at least one session organiser must be an active ISA member before July 31, 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.isasociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025 For inquiries, please contact the Programme Coordinators: Sheetal Bhoola: sheetalbhoola@gmail.com Michela Freddano: michela.freddano@invalsi.it Dasarath Chetty: chettytd@gmail.comIN PERSON ONLY SESSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Theme: Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene The V ISA Forum of Sociology will take place in Rabat, Morocco on July 6-11, 2025. This is the first ISA Forum to be held in the region and specifically in a country that is known for being at the crossroads of civilizations spanning the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa. The Forum coincides with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and Sociological Film Festival. The Forum will bring together sociologists from around the world to unpack this complex theme. Our point of departure lies in the recognition of the Anthropocene and the environmental concerns that accompany it. This word entered our lexicon at the turn of the Millennium when geologists first began to identify what they considered to be irreversible geological traces of human societies on the planet. In March 2024, the ‘scientists’ (according to a New York Times reporter) decided that no, we were not really in a new geological epoch. But the journalist noted that the term had already gained so much importance in anthropology and history that it will most likely stay relevant in societies. This situation of contested knowledges is precisely what we will tackle in Rabat. What does it mean to “know” in the context of the Anthropocene? Whose knowledge counts? What forms of knowing (understood in its feminist and relational sense) are prioritized, and with what consequences, in societal change? While some sub-disciplines have been actively contributing to academic and public debates, sociology writ large has not been at the center of these debates regarding the conditions of living with and in the Anthropocene. How might engaging the sociological imagination in discussions of the Anthropocene better equip sociologists and citizens to contribute to these public debates about our individual and collective capacities to live together in such an epoch? This brings us to the question of justice. How do we know what is fair and just? Can we forge new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene? What can sociology contribute to how we know justice among knowledges (ontological and 2 epistemic justice) or about aspects of our social worlds, such as environmental justice, legal justice, transitional justice, land justice, water justice, interspecies justice, racial justice, ethnic justice, or gender justice? What new questions are opened about these types of relations when the conditions of the Anthropocene are taken seriously? Proposed themes should be based on the above description of contested knowledges and new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene as they relate RC 10 focus areas. Please propose your sessions via the online session proposal submission system by 30 June 2024 (24:00h UTC/GMT). Link: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/cfs.cgi Please note that in the case your proposed session is selected, at least one session organiser must be an active ISA member before July 31, 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.isasociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025 For inquiries, please contact the Programme Coordinators: Sheetal Bhoola: sheetalbhoola@gmail.com Michela Freddano: michela.freddano@invalsi.it Dasarath Chetty: chettytd@gmail.comIN PERSON ONLY SESSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Theme: Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene The V ISA Forum of Sociology will take place in Rabat, Morocco on July 6-11, 2025. This is the first ISA Forum to be held in the region and specifically in a country that is known for being at the crossroads of civilizations spanning the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa. The Forum coincides with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and Sociological Film Festival. The Forum will bring together sociologists from around the world to unpack this complex theme. Our point of departure lies in the recognition of the Anthropocene and the environmental concerns that accompany it. This word entered our lexicon at the turn of the Millennium when geologists first began to identify what they considered to be irreversible geological traces of human societies on the planet. In March 2024, the ‘scientists’ (according to a New York Times reporter) decided that no, we were not really in a new geological epoch. But the journalist noted that the term had already gained so much importance in anthropology and history that it will most likely stay relevant in societies. This situation of contested knowledges is precisely what we will tackle in Rabat. What does it mean to “know” in the context of the Anthropocene? Whose knowledge counts? What forms of knowing (understood in its feminist and relational sense) are prioritized, and with what consequences, in societal change? While some sub-disciplines have been actively contributing to academic and public debates, sociology writ large has not been at the center of these debates regarding the conditions of living with and in the Anthropocene. How might engaging the sociological imagination in discussions of the Anthropocene better equip sociologists and citizens to contribute to these public debates about our individual and collective capacities to live together in such an epoch? This brings us to the question of justice. How do we know what is fair and just? Can we forge new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene? What can sociology contribute to how we know justice among knowledges (ontological and 2 epistemic justice) or about aspects of our social worlds, such as environmental justice, legal justice, transitional justice, land justice, water justice, interspecies justice, racial justice, ethnic justice, or gender justice? What new questions are opened about these types of relations when the conditions of the Anthropocene are taken seriously? Proposed themes should be based on the above description of contested knowledges and new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene as they relate RC 10 focus areas. Please propose your sessions via the online session proposal submission system by 30 June 2024 (24:00h UTC/GMT). Link: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/cfs.cgi Please note that in the case your proposed session is selected, at least one session organiser must be an active ISA member before July 31, 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.isasociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025 For inquiries, please contact the Programme Coordinators: Sheetal Bhoola: sheetalbhoola@gmail.com Michela Freddano: michela.freddano@invalsi.it Dasarath Chetty: chettytd@gmail.comIN PERSON ONLY SESSIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Theme: Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene The V ISA Forum of Sociology will take place in Rabat, Morocco on July 6-11, 2025. This is the first ISA Forum to be held in the region and specifically in a country that is known for being at the crossroads of civilizations spanning the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Africa. The Forum coincides with the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations and Sociological Film Festival. The Forum will bring together sociologists from around the world to unpack this complex theme. Our point of departure lies in the recognition of the Anthropocene and the environmental concerns that accompany it. This word entered our lexicon at the turn of the Millennium when geologists first began to identify what they considered to be irreversible geological traces of human societies on the planet. In March 2024, the ‘scientists’ (according to a New York Times reporter) decided that no, we were not really in a new geological epoch. But the journalist noted that the term had already gained so much importance in anthropology and history that it will most likely stay relevant in societies. This situation of contested knowledges is precisely what we will tackle in Rabat. What does it mean to “know” in the context of the Anthropocene? Whose knowledge counts? What forms of knowing (understood in its feminist and relational sense) are prioritized, and with what consequences, in societal change? While some sub-disciplines have been actively contributing to academic and public debates, sociology writ large has not been at the center of these debates regarding the conditions of living with and in the Anthropocene. How might engaging the sociological imagination in discussions of the Anthropocene better equip sociologists and citizens to contribute to these public debates about our individual and collective capacities to live together in such an epoch? This brings us to the question of justice. How do we know what is fair and just? Can we forge new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene? What can sociology contribute to how we know justice among knowledges (ontological and 2 epistemic justice) or about aspects of our social worlds, such as environmental justice, legal justice, transitional justice, land justice, water justice, interspecies justice, racial justice, ethnic justice, or gender justice? What new questions are opened about these types of relations when the conditions of the Anthropocene are taken seriously? Proposed themes should be based on the above description of contested knowledges and new understandings of justice for the Anthropocene as they relate RC 10 focus areas. Please propose your sessions via the online session proposal submission system by 30 June 2024 (24:00h UTC/GMT). Link: https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/cfs.cgi Please note that in the case your proposed session is selected, at least one session organiser must be an active ISA member before July 31, 2024. For more information, visit: https://www.isasociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025 For inquiries, please contact the Programme
Coordinators: Sheetal Bhoola: sheetalbhoola@gmail.com Michela Freddano: michela.freddano@invalsi.it Dasarath Chetty: chettytd@gmail.com