We're excited for the relaunch of ISA's "Presidential Corner"! Explore the newly reactivated Corner on our website. Read the latest letter from ISA President @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social (2023-2027) to the members, find recent addresses, articles, interviews and podcasts.

Highlights from the XIX Polish National Sociological Congress with ISA President Geoffrey Pleyers, President of Polish Sociological Association Mirosława Grabowska, President of the European Sociological Association Kaja Gadowska, and colleagues. 📸 Personal archive of @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social

"Faktenprüfung ... bedeutet auch jene Falschdarstellungen über die Entscheidung der ISA richtigzustellen" "Die Vielfalt der Reaktionen.. ist ein Zeichen unserer Vitalität" Replik von @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social auf Bogner und Hitachis Kritik im der FAZ. Vermutlich relevant für die #dgs2025

„Die israelische Fachgesellschaft für Soziologie wurde von der internationale Dachorganisation ISA suspendiert. Daran gab es Kritik. Allerdings ist die ganze Situation komplexer als sie dargestellt wurde.“ — Replik von @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social auf Alexander Bogner und Caspar Hirschi. #dgs2025

A time for #sociology Welcome address #ISAForum25 We need a sociology that is rigorous independent critical public & global. As the world faces climate change, wars, rising inequality &hatred, sociology is an indispensable tool for living together @isa-sociology.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5D7...

Social movements and protests unveil and help deal with intergenerational trauma caused by state violence and dictatorship. We show it in this article coauthored with Karla Henríquez & N Pinochet taking #Chile as case study @crimjustjournal.bsky.social www.crimejusticejournal.com/article/view...

"The Chilean Awakening in a global decade of movements" My chapter in "Citizenship Utopias in the Global South" The 2019 Chilean Uprising analyzed based on citizens' protests around the world & how it helps us to understand social movements today and their impacts. www.academia.edu/129603940/Th...

This week on the Breaking Britain podcast, we've been joined by Geoffrey Pleyers, a renowned scholar of social movements who can help us explore the impact the rise of MAGA Trump populism has had on Mexico and the rest of Latin America. www.buzzsprout.com/1611550/epis...

The International Sociological Association (ISA) has been concerned for some time and condemned the acts of violence that have occurred in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Pepe #Mujica was a prophet of our times, a human being who knew the true value of life. “You have to know this: life slips away and leaves you minute by minute, and you can't go to the supermarket to buy life. So fight to live it, to give meaning to life" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp5R...

This was probably not the American pope Trump & Vance thought about! Let's hope he will stand firm on this. #newpope

In our times, democracy needs to be defended and deserves to be celebrated. thank you people of South Korea for showing your country and the world such a determination& enthusiasm for democracy! Thousands gather in Seoul after the president who declared martial law is impeached by the supreme Court

Next to the supreme court in Seoul, Thousands citizens listening to the judge to announce the impeachment of the president who declared martial law on Dec. 3rd Decisive moment for democracy in Korea

"A vibrant global sociology in a world in crisis" On Friday 4th in Seoul with Korean Sociological Association at Korea University & on Wed. 9th at Shanghai University. A series of talk to prepare the 2027 World Congress of #Sociology in #Gwangju #SouthKorea. @isa-sociology.bsky.social

Chaque jour, une nouvelle plus préoccupante. Ils parlent de liberté d'expression et interdisent à un scientifique d'entrer aux Etats Unis parce qu'il a critiqué Trump... Leur programme semble chaque jour plus clair www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

📣Call for Papers📣 ESA RN30 Midterm Conference "Youth and Young Adults in a Radically Changing World: Stagnation, Continuation and New Beginnings" in Zagreb 📆October 15-18 🔷Keynote Speakers: Geoffrey Pleyers Benjamin Perasović 📩Submission deadline: 31 May 2025 @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social

Un entretien à propos de la démocratie, de l'écologie, des médias et des sciences sociales, essentielles et menacées dans le monde d'aujourd'hui. youtu.be/ZatI-R-9EnY

This Monday in Johannesburg

Researchers, educators, teachers, independent journalists, academics of the USA (and around the world!), your work is needed now more than ever! @asanews.bsky.social @isa-sociology.bsky.social @sciencecouncil.bsky.social

Tribute to Michael Burawoy, one of the most inspiring sociologists of our times and a wonderful human being. Former president of @isa-sociology.bsky.social and @asanews.bsky.social In ISA Global Dialogue, the public sociology journal he founded. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/mic...

Online Tribute in Memory of Michael Burawoy The International Sociological Association (ISA) mourns the tragic passing of Michael Burawoy (1947-2025), a leading sociologist, Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, and 17th President of ISA (2010–2014).

#MichaelBurawoy left us at a time we most needed his leadership, his energy, his tireless work to understand our world, his example as an extraordinary teacher, his faith in a relevant public sociology, his openness to a global dialogue, his energy against injustice

A snowy start of the year in Belgium. A quiet contrast with a frightening year to come.

Fantastic to meet and learn from a new generation of Indian sociologists at the 49th All India Sociological Congress!

This Thursday at JNU,Delhi.

In Delhi this week, for a series of talks and meetings at JMI university and JNU. Dec. 18th, 3pm: an open & interactive meeting at JMI Dec. 19th, 3pm : JNU: "A global dialogue to renew sociology", Dec. 20th, 11am : "For a Global Sociology of Social Movements", JMI

Last month at the Lithuanian Congress of Sociology. A vibrant society of sociologists in a dynamic country! The itw summarises part of my keynote "Is Sociology in Crisis?" www.fsf.vu.lt/en/news/news...

"Un proyecto renovado para la sociología global" Mi última contribución en la Revista Mexicana de Sociología. #Sociología #Global mexicanadesociologia.unam.mx/index.php/v8...

"Cosmopolitanism: Four sociological transformations". Now available in Arabic in "IDAFAT Arab Journal of Sociology" Many thanks to IDAFAT's editors for translating & for their work in disseminating local & global research in soc. sciences in the MENA region. Social sciences need to be multilingual!

🔥 Hot off the press! The new edition of Global Dialogue, the magazine of the International Sociological Association (ISA). Short articles on Global Sociology, Japan, internationalist manifestos, climate justice & Palestinian liberation. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...

Thank you @jay.bsky.team & #BlueSky for opening a tolerant public space! Thousands of scholars & social scientists have joined #Bluesky in the past week. Our next challenge is to globalize it & welcome citizens, researchers & other voices from the #GlobalSouth and East. #GlobalPublicSpace

Global Sociology. 4 transformations. In ISA Global Dialogue globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/glo...

An interview about Global Sociology and the transformations of sociology since the beginning of the century. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/glo...

Once a month, we’re going to feature a book from a member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) RC 48. This month, we proudly share “Chile en movimientos” by Karla Henríquez and Geoffrey Pleyers.