Markus S. Schulz - The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World

Towards the Futures We Want

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Akosua Adomako Ampofois Professor of African and Gender Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, where she has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of African Studies since 1989, and until July 2015 was its Director. She is a founding member and current president of the African Studies Association of Africa. Adomako Ampofo considers herself an activist scholar and was also the founding Director of the Centre for Gender Studies and Advocacy, CEGENSA, at the University of Ghana (20052009). Her teaching, research and advocacy address issues of African knowledge systems; higher education; identity politics; gender-based violence, womens work, masculinities and gender representations in popular culture (music and religion). Adomako Ampofo is Co-editor, with Cheryl R. Rodriguez and Dzodzi Tsikata, of Transatlantic Feminisms: Womens and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora (Lexington Books, 2015), and with Kwasi Ampene, Albert Awedoba and Godwin K. Adjei, of A Festschrift in Honour of Emeritus Professor J. H. Kwabena Nketia (University of Michigan Press, 2015). She is a member of CODESRIA, the (US) African Studies Association, and immediate past Co-President of the Research Committee on Women and Society of the International Sociological Association. She is Co-editor, Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa blog, www.cihablog.com, and editor, African Studies Review; and editor-in-chief of Contemporary Journal of African Studies. She tweets at @adomakoampofo.Asef Bayatis the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies and Professor of Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. Bayat had previously taught for many years at the American University in Cairo and served as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) at Leiden University in the Netherlands, while also holding visiting positions at the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia University, Oxford, and Brown. He has been awarded fellowships from the Ford, Guggenheim, MacArthur, and Open Society Foundations. Among his most recent books are Post-Islamism: The Changing Faces of Political Islam (Oxford University Press, 2013); Life as Politics: How Ordinary People Change the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2nd edn, 2013) and Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring (Stanford University Press, 2017).Nora Garita Bonillais President of the Latin American Sociological Association (Asociacin Latinoamericana de Sociologa, ALAS). She obtained her doctorate at the University of Paris X Nanterre, France, and is Professor of Sociology at the University of Costa Rica, where she also directs the Center for Investigation and Studies of Women (Centro de investigacin y estudios de la mujer, CIEM). She has organized the XXX Congress of ALAS in Costa Rica 2015 on the theme Pueblos en movimiento (Communities in Movement).Todd Gitlinis Professor of Journalism and Sociology and Chair of the PhD program in communications at Columbia University, and the author of 17 books, including