Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-embodiments?
Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-embodiments?
BSA - Theory Study Group Symposium
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Call for Contributions
The topicality of climate justice is indisputable. Debates on the shape of post-Kyoto treaties for climate and social equity abound. Similarly, popular initiatives to set up tribunals to fight those responsible for climate forcing and [...]
Land Reforms and Management of Natural Resources in Africa and Latin America Conference
Panels scientific committee
PANELS PROPOSED TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
A meeting is being held for the report presentations of the following panels:
1. Economic development, land possession and poverty
Coordinators: Nuria Duperier, Gonzalo Ramírez de Haro
The panel concerning economic development, land possession and poverty will be directed at:
- Analysing to what [...]
‘10 Years Later: Challenges and proposals for another possible world’
World Social Forum 2010 starts with great event in the Greater Porto Alegre - Brazil
Celebrating its tenth year of existence, the World Social Forum (WSF), will take place in 2010 in a decentralized manner, with at least 27 regional, national and local events throughout the world over the next period (see agenda on the WSF [...]
Low-tech is Part of the Sociological Imagination for the Age of Re-embodiments
While the challenge of disembodiment follows from the Neolithic Revolution and a fortiori the practice of metallurgy, it is a recent series of industrial revolutions that have perilously intensified it: At what rates of dis/embodiment are human societies –or some of their groups— willing to live in order to erect what kind of global civilization? [...]
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