Monthly Archives: June 2017

Dear Section Members- We will send out more detailed information soon, but for now I just want to make sure you are saving these important dates/times for our section events at ASAs. SATURDAY, AUG 12 8:30 a.m. – Section session … Continue reading →

BEST BOOK AWARD Winner: Pablo Lapegna. 2016. Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina.  Oxford University Press. Honorable mention: Tianna S. Paschel.  2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Columbia and … Continue reading →

Emerald Studies in Media and Communications is delighted to announce two new calls with a due date of  January 15, 2018: Theorizing the Digital: Social Theory and Power, Media, and Everyday Life: Expanding the Intersectional.    Call for Theorizing the … Continue reading →

Please join me in congratulating our new Sociology  of Development section officers! Chair Elect:  Andrew Jorgenson New Council Members:  Kristy Kelly and Poulami Roychowdhury New Graduate Student Council Representative:  Ryan Nehring Thanks to everyone who was willing to run and … Continue reading →

​Wow, wow, wow!  ​Click on the Sectors Newsletters tab to access the spring edition of SECTORS, our Sociology of Development newsletter.  It is packed with information about Sociology of Development events, publications, and people.  This edition also contains a complete … Continue reading →

Michigan State University invites the submission of article-length manuscripts (6,000 – 9,000 words) for peer review and publication in our GPID Working Papers series. We seek materials at a late stage of formulation that contribute new understandings of women and … Continue reading →

Problem-Solving Sociology “Ideas Incubator” Grants: Responding to an Automated World Key contemporary problems, including rising inequality, a shrinking middle class, falling wages, skills mismatch, and the resulting rise of populism, can be traced at least partially to the same cause: … Continue reading →

Submissions are now being accepted for presentations at the International Sociological Association’s World Congress of Sociology in Toronto, July 15-21, 2018. Please find below a complete list of sessions sponsored by ISA RC09, the ISA section on Social Transformations and … Continue reading →

Hello, we are pleased to let you know that the new issue of the journal (Vol. 3 No. 2, Summer 2017) is now out and available HERE. The Table of Contents for the issue is below. Sociology of Development, Table … Continue reading →