“POWER, VIOLENCE AND JUSTICE: REFLECTIONS, RESPONSES AND RESPONSIBILITIES”
Since the inception of the discipline, sociologists have been concerned with power, violence and justice. Current social, economic and political challenges enhance their relevance. As capitalist globalization expands and deepens, corporate power increases along with global, national and local inequalities.
New geo-political power configurations and confrontations are emerging, with violence being used as a tool to oppress and also to resist oppression. Colonial histories and contemporary land appropriations reflect the structures and cultural processes that perpetuate violence against indigenous and minority communities.
States’ failures to meet their responsibility to provide basic resources are often deflected by blaming the most vulnerable. Both global economic and geo-political processes create crises and massive displacements of people and, at the same time, fuel racism, nationalism and xenophobia. We have also seen an increasing buildup of a culture of fear as a powerful tool used by states, corporations and other institutions to generate popular support for curtailing freedom in the name of security.
Efforts to curtail the flow of desperate refugees, attest to the reinforcement of national and racialized borders. Despite visible progress on equality issues, violence against women and intersectional violence point to the entrenchment of the gender border around the world. Equally significant is the need to consider the role of state and institutional power relations to ongoing everyday violence. In response to disempowerment, violence, and injustice we have also witnessed nonviolent movements, humanitarian interventions, and peace processes that have empowered communities, reduced violence, and promoted justice. These diverse communities have built solidarities outside the neo-liberal frames of state-global capital nexus.
This XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology will focus on how scholars, public intellectuals, policy makers, journalists and activists from diverse fields can and do contribute to our understanding of power, violence and justice.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We have been invited to submit an Abstract to Research Committee RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology
Language: English
The session will expand the discussion on formulation of the scientific, technological and innovation policies activity in the context of developed countries and its new relationship with the capital, power, nonviolent, justice and social inclusion.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
Anyone interested in presenting a paper should submit an abstract on-line through a centralized website open from April 25 through September 30, 2017, 24:00 GMT.
Participants must submit abstracts on-line. Only abstracts submitted on-line will be considered in the selection process.
One cannot submit more than two abstracts.
One cannot submit the same abstract to two different sessions.
The abstract text cannot contain more than 300 words and must be submitted in English, French or Spanish.
It is the author’s responsibility to submit a correct abstract; any errors in spelling, grammar, or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the author.
All changes/updates should be done via on-line system by September 30, 2017 24:00 GMT.
Each abstract received on-line will be assigned an identification number.
Submitters will be informed by November 30, 2017, whether their papers have been accepted for presentation.
A final presentation designation (oral presentation, distributed paper, poster, or round table presentation) will be indicated. This information can be modified later by Session Organizers once registration check has been completed.
Visit Abstracts submission website for more details.
