Sociology in a Hostile Environment
by the Public Sociology Laboratory, St. Petersburg, Russia The Public Sociology Laboratory is an independent research group of leftist scholars and activists in St. Petersburg. Some of us took part in...
View ArticleProvision of Care in South Africa
by Elena Moore, University of Cape Town and Jeremy Seekings, University of Cape Town, South Africa and former Vice-President of ISA Research Committee on Regional and Urban Development (RC21) and...
View ArticleHousehold Care under Precarious Conditions in Chile, Costa Rica and Spain
by Monica Budowski, University of Fribourg, Switzerland and member of ISA Research Committees on Economy and Society (RC02), Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19), and Social Indicators...
View ArticleThe Changing Face of Care Work in Austria and Germany
by Roland Atzmüller, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria and member of ISA Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19); Brigitte Aulenbacher, Johannes Kepler University,...
View ArticleLong-Term Care: Sweden and Japan Compared
by Hildegard Theobald, University of Vechta, Germany and member of ISA Research Committees on Aging (RC11) and Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19) and Yayoi Saito, Osaka University, Japan...
View ArticleReconstructing Care as a Market in Australia
by Michael D. Fine, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and member of ISA Research Committee on Sociology of Aging (RC11) Walzing Matilda is a deceptively cheerful song about a homeless swaggie who...
View ArticleGlobal Perspectives on Care Work
by Brigitte Aulenbacher, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and member of ISA Research Committees on Economy and Society (RC02), Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19), Sociology of...
View ArticleSocial Science and Democracy: An Elective Affinity
by Dipankar Gupta, Shiv Nadar University, New Delhi, India Dipankar Gupta is a distinguished Indian sociologist and leading public intellectual. He is Professor and Director of the Centre for Public...
View ArticlePower and Principle: The Vicissitudes of a Sociologist in Parliament
by Walden Bello, Emeritus Professor, University of the Philippines at Diliman, and former member of the Philippine House of Representatives, 2009-15 Walden Bello is a Filipino sociologist of immense...
View ArticleEditorial: Going Public, Going Comparative
In this issue we begin with two essays from Asia – one from the Philippines and the other from India – written by distinguished public intellectuals. Walden Bello follows a line of sociologists who...
View Article“There is a lot of work to be done”: Cuban activist Norberto Mesa Carbonell...
Interviewed by Luisa Steur, University of Copenhagen From its start in 1959, the Cuban revolution has been dedicated to racial equality. In a country where slavery was abolished only as recently as...
View ArticleThe Sunflower Movement and Taiwan’s Embattled Sociology
by Ming-sho Ho, National Taiwan University, Taiwan In protest against a sweeping trade liberalization agreement with China, Taiwan’s university students stormed the national legislature in the evening...
View ArticleSweeping News from Havana[1]
by Luisa Steur, University of Copenhagen, Denmark December 17, 2014, the day Obama announces that the US and Cuba will restore full relations, is a memorable day in Havana. Juan, an ex-boxer turned...
View ArticleOn Racism and Revolution: An Interview with Cuban Activist Norberto Mesa...
Since 1959, the Cuban revolution has been dedicated to racial equality. In a country where slavery was abolished only in 1886, the revolution offered many black Cubans their first access to land and...
View ArticleThe US and Cuba: Making Up Is Hard To Do
by Luis E. Rumbaut, Cuban American Alliance, Washington D.C., USA and Rubén G. Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine, USA In a thirteen-minute address last December, President Barack Obama...
View ArticleThe Austrian Legacy of Public Sociology
by Rudolf Richter, University of Vienna, Austria and Chair of the Local Organizing Committee of the Third ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, 2016 The Third ISA Forum’s theme, formulated by the Forum...
View ArticleThe Strange History of Sociology and Anthropology
by Jan Breman, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands In the early twentieth century, the founding father of the social sciences in the Netherlands drew a line between sociology and anthropology. While...
View ArticleThe Appeal of the Islamic State – An Interview with François Burgat
François Burgat is a political sociologist and senior researcher at the French Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), who has devoted his career to the analysis of political systems and...
View ArticleThe Power of Disruption: An Interview with Frances Fox Piven
Frances Fox Piven is an internationally renowned social scientist, and a much beloved teacher. She is a radical democrat and inspiring scholar-activist whose defense of the poor has dominated her...
View ArticleEditorial: Interdisciplinarity and the Disciplines
This issue opens with two interviews. The first is with Frances Fox Piven, one of the most remarkable scholars in the history of US sociology. Her dedication to such issues as welfare rights, voter...
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