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Conflict,Conflict, CitizenshipCitizenship andand CivilCivil SocietySociety 3rd-6th September 2007, Glasgow / Scotland
Opening Plenary at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Contents The BIGGEST ESA-Conference ever! The 8th ESA Conference / Glasgow 01 1,800 abstracts have been accepted and President’s Message 02 1,500 delegates have preregistered already Full Programme 03 as this Newsletter is being prepared. See Abstracts for Plenaries 04 Programme for the Semi-Plenaries 06 the full program in the next pages. Conference Registration 06 Presentation of Research Streams 07 All about the ESA-Elections Getting to Glasgow / Local Transportation 07 ESA-Conference - Frequently Asked Questions 08 The election of the new President of the Conference - Workshops 09 ESA and of the new Executive Committee Meet the authors 11 will take place at the General Assembly News for Research Networks 12 meeting in Glasgow. See a full list of ESA Research Networks 13 candidates in this issue. If you are not able to attend the conference, you can vote in Election of the President / Executive Committee 14 advance by sending in the ballot which is Proposed Changes of ESA Statutes 17 included with the mailed paper version of this issue. ESA Contact Information 18
1 Summer 2007 Issue 25 o Bulletin of the European Sociologist Association President's message Giovanna Procacci takes a look back at her work with the Executive Commitee
Dear ESA members, rationalizing their functioning over Secondly, my effort has been to While the 8th ESA Conference in two calendar years and reducing consolidate the presence of ESA at Glasgow is under preparation and their amount, despite increased the European level. It seems to me my term of presidency is number of issues of the Journal. self-evident that ESA can offer to approaching an end, I would like to sociologists from all European share with you some of my views Decreasing fees has been part of a countries a chance to take part in a over the work I have been doing broader strategy of rebalancing debate about what is European together with the Executive income and expenditures in the Sociology, within a broader Committee during 2005-2007. Association, which has also discussion about EU policy for meant more investments in sciences. Our task is to help We have been through a period of activities for doctoral and post- constructing common views about important changes in the doctoral researchers (a longer needs and priorities for the Association. We had to hire our Student Workshop, a new ESA development of Sociology in own secretary, given the end of Summer School for years between Europe. ESA is part of the Initiative secretarial support from the French two conferences, the ESA Prize for for Science in Europe, which was CNRS. This has been the occasion young sociologists-under the at the origin of the European for reshaping the work of our supervision of a newly established Research Council, and we have office in Paris, also thanks to a Postgraduate Research strengthened our link with the bookkeeper who is now working Committee) and for the RNs (there social sciences section of ESF. We together with our secretary and is no limit any longer to the number have opened a process of Treasurer. We are also considering of ESA-grants in the intermediate consultation with all European the need for a more active website: year between two Conferences, up national associations of sociology some changes in this direction will to 15 RNs have been funded in (meeting Dec. 2006). If we are able be already realized in the next 2006). to get also our RNs to participate in months, and hopefully the next such consultation, we can establish Executive Committee will go further Our action has been guided by two ESA as a platform where European on this task. convictions. First of all, the Sociology is acting for its own conviction that RNs need to be purposes. A further relevant change has more involved in the activities and occurred in our journal European choices of the Association; for this, This Executive has put lots of Societies with the arrival of a new we have created a new energies and invested money into General Editor, Prof. John Scott consultation body, the ESA RNs this kind of activities, under the from Essex University, the partial Council, where the Executive and supervision of the newly renewal of the Editorial Board representatives of all RNs will have established External Relations under the chair of Carlo Ruzza, a chance to directly exchange their Committee. I strongly hope that and the conclusion of a new views. I look forward to its first the next President and Executive contract with Routledge till 2016. meeting at Glasgow. I do believe will continue to consolidate what is The main points of the new that we need to improve by now a new field of action for contract are the increase of our communications with the RNs. This ESA. This activity ought to journal from four to five issues per is why the RNs will be asked to become, at least in my view, the year at the same price for at least bring to the Council a page with core of ESA mission within our two more years, and the possibility main information for our office scientific community. of downloading a paperback records (see p.12). I have also tried edition of books in our book-series to involve the RNs in our We shall have several "Studies on European Societies". It consultation strategies for opportunities to debate all these is very important that all our enhancing the role of ESA as issues in Glasgow. members and RNs are aware of representative of the scientific such extensions in our publications community of sociologists in and consider submitting articles to Europe. I must say that so far RNs With my best wishes to all of you the Journal and book-proposals to have not reacted very actively, for a good conference, the book-series. hopefully the ESA RNs Council will encourage them to get more Yours, We have also defined a new involved, otherwise only a few most structure for membership fees, active RNs will dominate. Giovanna Procacci
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On the following pages you will find detailed information about the events at the 8th Conference of the ESA. You can read about the full program, the social events, the research networks and about booking and registration. Full Programme
The programme below shows * RS/RN Sessions organised by Research Streams and Research Networks * Poster sessions on 4th and 5th September from 11.00am-4.00pm
Monday, 3rd September:
Tuesday, 4th September:
Wednesday, 5th September:
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Abstracts for Plenaries
Opening Plenary Monday, 3rd September, 16.00-18.00 / Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Donatella della Porta them to the specific instances of the phenomenon to Conflict, citizenship and civil society: How be studied as well as the methods for studying them. emerging social conflicts challenge social A challenge to those images comes from such science approaches characteristics of the new conflicts as; a cross-issue framing of "old" social questions and "new" differential The lecture shall start with a discussion of the concept rights; the trans-nationalization of the movement's of "civil society" and similar ones developed in organizational structures; the emergence of a global different subdisciplines. First, I shall locate the discourse and the targeting of supranational concept of civil society (as opposed to the state and institutions; the convergence of different types of the market) within normative theory of Non- actors (social movement organizations, unions, Governmental Organizations (as opposed to nation- parties, NGOs) in networks and campaigns and the states) in international relations, and of social presence of multiple and "tolerant" identities. In movements (as opposed to party and interest groups) concluding this part of the lecture, I shall suggest that in political sociology and comparative politics. Second, these elements - far from making old sociological I shall make a plea for going beyond the recognition of categories useless - actually stimulate an examination the specific origins and location of these concepts and of the emerging nature of social movements as actors try to bridge them discursively in order to overcome capable of producing resources in-action. some limitations in their actual use. With respect to the field of social movement studies, I will stress that the Finally, I shall discuss how these conflicts reflect upon risk of self-referentiality and parochialism have their conceptualizations of citizenship. While bringing roots, in part, from the very success of the field (with a social rights back in, they challenge, however, the growing number of journals, chairs and the like) but conception of national borders, that had helped define also from internal cleavages between disciplinary, the boundaries for the recognition of those rights. At methodological and national approaches. the same time, the language of rights is also much more in evidence, linking social, civic and political In a second part, departing from some results from universal rights to the specific concerns of new empirical research on recent conflicts, I shall stress constituencies. how their very nature poses a strong demand for cross-fertilization among different approaches. In In conclusion, I will express my hope that some particular, I shall suggest that the new wave of conflict developments in the social sciences might facilitate that became visible with the protest against the WTO our capacity to understand the new conflicts through a millennium round in Seattle in 1999 has shaken some cross-fertilization of different theories and methods. dominant images of movements as institutionalized Among the developments that could facilitate a "sound collective actors. eclecticism", I will cite, in particular, the emergence of a new generation of scholars that embody These dominant images were reproduced thanks to transnational backgrounds and I will focus on the the tendency in social movement research to impact on a variety of disciplines and sub-disciplines; conceptualize on the basis of specific historical from sociology to political science; from anthropology manifestations of the phenomenon, and then to adapt to geography and from social theory to history.
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Closing Plenaries / Thursday, 6th September, 15.30-17.30 Barony Hall, University of Scrathclyde Nicos Mouzelis However, the heterogeneous impact of 'contextual Civil Society and Citizenship in early and late discontinuity' limited the reflexive response to Modernity minorities (as in the great Age of Ideology), its a) From a sociological point of view, modernity can be slowness enabled new forms of routinsation to regarded as the type of social organization that become entrenched (the urban working class became dominant in Europe after the English community), and its results were dependent upon the industrial and the French revolution.. It entailed the collective mobilisation of sectional interests. In sum, decline of segmental localism and the large-scale these reflexive responses were bound to the mobilisation/inclusion of the population into the lineaments of modernity because they were "imaginary community" of the nation state. This led to exclusively concerned with incorporation into existing the concentration of not only the means of production political and civil society through seeking its but also the means of domination and persuasion on institutional elaboration. the national centre; as well as to the top-down differentiation of institutional spheres (economic, Within Europe, nascent globalisation spells the political, social, cultural), each portraying (at least generalisation of 'contextual discontinuity' to all. This potentially) its own values, logic and historical results from the tendential effect of morphogenesis, trajectory. for variety to stimulate yet greater variety, when b) In late (globalised) modernity we see similar untrammelled by counter-balancing morphostatic processes occurring on a planetary level. An attempt processes - because it reshapes the situations will be made to see how civil society and citizenship confronted by all. Hence, for the first time in human rights are linked to the major features of early and late history, the reflexive imperative applies to all. As modernity. decisive structures become located trans-nationally and the cultural system extends a novel situational Margaret S. Archer logic of opportunity, what is to be done and what represents the good life has to be answered by From High Modernity to Nascent Globalisation: everyone. Reflexively, the (enlarging) European The New Reflexive Imperative and population confronts 'contextual discontinuity' and Transformations of Civil Society must deliberate about matching their skills and Reflexivity - the regular exercise of the mental ability concerns to new but complementary outlets, to shared by all normal people, to consider themselves in establish their own non-traditional modi vivendi. relation to their (social) contexts and vice versa - is a prerequisite for all forms of social life. Even in However, modes of reflexivity result from a traditional societies, no culture was so consistent in its combination of 'social context + personal concerns', composition and no structure was so coherent in its as do their consequences. Structurally induced organisation to constitute a relatively enduring form of 'contextual discontinuity' and the cultural 'logic of life without constant resort to the reflexively governed opportunity' may fuel reflexive deliberations based action of its members: to adopt social expectations as upon instrumental rationality for many, but, equally, their own, to improvise through unscripted they foster meta-reflexive Wertrational concerns, contingencies and to elaborate upon tradition itself to responsible not only for European social movements cover novel eventualities, occurrent even in but also for a transformed civil society in which the morphostatic social formations. Nevertheless, 'Third Sector' becomes a serious player. Individual life reflexivity was limited both in extent and in kind by worlds are no longer amenable to orchestration by 'contextual continuity'. 'habitus', but neither is public life at the capricious mercy of individualised serial self-reinvention. The progressive effect of modernity, as morphogenesis began its unsynchronised emergence Since reflexivity is held to mediate between structure in structure and culture, was one that entailed and agency, its own transformation is re-defining and increased reflexivity: a growth in its scope (the re-structuring conflict, citizenship and civil society - as proportion of those practising it intensively) and its the novel reflexive responses to the novelty of reach (the range of issues addressed reflexively). 'morphogenesis unbound'. Place a Commercial Advertisement in the ESA-Newsletter And draw the attention of the whole European sociological community! See “Communication with ESA” for details
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Programme for the Semi-Plenaries Semi-Plenaries 1, 2 and 3: Semi-Plenaries 4, 5 and 6: Tuesday 4th September, 11.30-1.00pm Wednesday 5th September, 11.30-1.00pm
1. From Scottish Enlightenment to Civil Society 4. Tolerance, Extremism and Conflicts: Today: Room K 3.25, University of Strathclyde Room K 3.25, University of Strathclyde * Anne-Sophie Lamine - University of Strasbourg, * David McCrone - University of Edinburgh, Scotland France Recovering Civil Society: Does sociology need it? Religious Plurality and Conflicts in the Public Sphere
* Robin Wagner-Pacifici - Swarthmore College, * Andrej Zdravomyslov - Institute of Sociology of the Pennsylvania, USA Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia From Moral Sentiments to Civic Engagement: Priorities in Conflicts: Hierarchies within European Sociological Analysis as Responsible Spectatorship Space
5. Migration and Citizenship: 2. Democratization, Urban Space and Conflict: Carnegie Lecture Theatre C001, Carnegie Lecture Theatre C001, Glasgow Caledonian University Glasgow Caledonian University * Thomas Faist - University of Bielefeld, Germany * Consuelo Corradi - Lumsa University, Rome, Italy Dual Citizenship in Europe: Beyond Nationhood, Between conflict and violence: Is classical Towards New Dichotomies sociological theory capable of understanding violence in modernity? * Maria Baganha - University of Coimbra, Portugal The modes of incorporation of immigrants and * Janusz Mucha - AGH University, Cracow, Poland citizenship rights Democratization in central and eastern Europe and the changing nature of minority issues 6. Social Movements, Identities and Social Institutions: Barony Hall, University of Strathclyde 3. Gender and Citizenship: Barony Hall, University of Strathclyde * Mario Diani - University of Trento, Italy Towards movement societies? A social network * Ruth Lister - Loughborough University, England perspective Citizenship, Civil Society and Conflict: A Gendered Perspective * David Silverman - Goldsmiths College, University of London, England * Arnlaug Leira - University of Oslo, Norway Putting society together: What qualitative research Caring and social citizenship: Gender matters can and cannot say about identities and social institutions
Conference-Registration
The registration desk will open at 8am on Monday the There will be a lot of signage to ensure everyone 3rd of September and will remain open for the length knows where they are going. There will be maps on of the conference. the ESA's conference website prior to the conference to help people find their way on the conference site It will be located at Glasgow Caledonian University in the Hamish Wood Building, directly opposite the main University gates, in the refectory (to the left as you walk in the main doors).
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Presentation of Research Streams
Twenty Research streams will be represented at the ESA conference in Glasgow in September 2007. The groups are the following:
RS1 - Sociology of Celebration RS2 - Reassessing Class in Contemporary Sociology RS3 - Disability, Citizenship and Uncivil Society RS4 - Enlargement of the European Union RS5 - Evolution and Sociology RS6 - Global Governance RS7 - Historical Sociology RS8 - Europe and Immigration RS9 - Rethinking the Intergenerational transmission of inequalities RS10 - Legal Plurism in Europe: Common Regulations and Local Practices RS11 - Memory, Culture and Conflict RS12 - Contemporary Methods in Migration Research RS13 - Minority Status and ambivalent identities in plural societies RS14 - Resisting Neoliberalism RS15 - Public sociology and commitment in action RS16 - Sociology of Racism RS17 - Sociology of Religions RS18 - Russia in a Changing World: The Dynamics and Quality of Citizenship and Civil Society RS19 - Urban Sociology and Cities RS20 - Work and Organisation Pollok House, Pollok Country Park Getting to Glasgow / Local Transportation
Air Rail Free Local Transporation Glasgow is served by two airports; Glasgow has well established rail links with All delegates will be provided with a Free Glasgow Airport and Prestwick Airport. the whole of the United Kingdom and is Transport Pass that is included in the cost served by a regular service from London of the registration fee. This pass will give Glasgow Airport is situated approximately 9 and the West coast. access to public transport in Glasgow and miles to the west of the City Centre. Taxis the Strathclyde area for the term of the take around 20 minutes (longer during rush Glasgow Central Station is the main station conference (covering the dates of Sunday hours) from the airport to the city centre. for arrival from stations throughout the 2nd until Thursday the 6th). This There is also a cheap and frequent bus southern Scotland and England. includes bus, train, underground and ferry service which will take you into Buchanan services. Street Bus Station, only 200 metres from A bus service operates from Gordon Street Glasgow Caledonian University. at the front of the station, to Glasgow The pass will be available to delegates at Queen Street Station and Buchanan Bus the conference when registering and at Prestwick Airport is located 30 miles to the Station. both Glasgow International Airport and south-west of Glasgow close to the town of Prestwick Airport on Sunday the 2nd and Ayr. Although further away it has a good Glasgow Queen Street Station is the main Monday the 3rd of September (locations to train link with the city centre (approximately station for trains arriving from/via be advised) for those coming by air. The 40mins train journey, trains leave every 30 Edinburgh and the north. It is pass covers the train journey from minutes), and since Prestwick is served by approximately a 10 minute walk from both Prestwick Airport to Glasgow city centre several of the low cost carriers it may be Glasgow Caledonian University and and from Glasgow Airport via bus to worth considering. Strathclyde University. Glasgow city centre.
Full details will be given to registered delegates prior to the conference.
Additional details can be found at the ESA-Conference homepage: http://www.esa8thconference.com/programmeinfo/index.php
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ESA-Conference - Frequently Asked Questions
The advice that follows addresses the questions about the conference that are most frequently asked by potential delegates.
If you have a question about the conference the chances are that this guide will be able to provide the answer.
Conference Fee Payments The conference fee can be paid via the following methods:
Online: PLEASE NOTE: if you apply for an ESA Confirmation of Abstract Success The online application can be used to apply membership category fee without entering An email will be sent to all successful using a credit or debit card only a valid membership number (which is candidates to indicate that their abstract/ checked from an ESA membership list) poster or contributed paper has been Via Post/ Fax: then your application will be invalid and accepted into the conference programme The application can be printed from the your fee returned to you. by the appropriate Co-ordinators of website and sent to us via post or fax and Research Networks or Conveners of paid via cheque or postal order. If you wish Membership of Other Sociological Research Streams. If you have any to pay via purchase order please fax your Associations queries regarding your abstract please application to us and an invoice will be sent Only members of the ESA, holding a valid contact the Co-ordinator of your Research to you or your institution - please mark ESA membership number may apply for Network or the Convener for your clearly on your form indicating where and ESA fee categories. Members of any other Research Stream (contact details for all who this should be sent to. associations will not be granted these Co-ordinators and each Conveners are rates. available on the website) Payment should be made out to Glasgow Caledonian University. Deadlines and Dates PLEASE NOTE: Whilst we can issue The following deadlines and dates will be presenters with formal notes indicating that PLEASE NOTE: We cannot provide bank strictly adhered to by the conference office: their abstracts have been accepted and details for bank transfer that we are looking forward to meeting with 31 May 2007 Early-bird conference them at the conference in September, Accommodation registration closes. All payments must be formal letters of 'invitation' are not normally Conference payments DO NOT include made on or prior to this date for this fee to available to anyone other than Plenary or accommodation. For accommodation be valid. Semi-Plenary speakers. bookings please visit the Accommodation section of our website, which is run by the 15 July 2007 Final date for registration by Abstracts/ Posters Glasgow Convention Bureau. All hotels on presenters of papers. Should those The deadline for abstracts and posters was the website are chosen for their close chosen to present a paper not register by the 2nd of March and we cannot accept proximity to the conference venues this date they will be immediately any further submissions for either of these (Caledonian and Strathclyde Universities). withdrawn from the conference programme categories. For those who have not been accepted by their chosen network or If you have any queries regarding August 1st 2007 Final date for withdrawal stream we are unable to transfer you to accommodation please contact the of registration after which there will be no another network or stream at this date. Glasgow Convention Bureau who deal with refunds. We regret that we will be unable all conference accommodation. to provide any refunds after this date. Contact Details The conference administrator can be ESA Membership Numbers Sponsorship/ Grants/ Fee Waivers emailed directly at: If you are intending to apply for an ESA fee With the exception of some student category please have your ESA bursaries and in the case of 'invited' E-Mail: [email protected], membership number available BEFORE speakers neither the European Tel: +44 (141) 331 8503 / you apply to the conference. Sociological Association nor the +44 (141) 331 3330 Universities involved in organising the Fax: +44 (141) 331 3439 If you do not have your membership conference have funds to support travel to number, please contact the ESA secretary and from the conference or to issue Address: ESA Conference Administrator Gisele Tchinda at gisele.tchinda- registration fee wavers or to subsidise in c/o Division of Social Sciences, [email protected] to request it. Please any way, delegates who will be attending or note that if your current membership presenting papers at the 8th ESA Hamish Wood Building, number ends in 05 then you will need to conference in Glasgow. Glasgow Caledonian University, renew your membership again this year before the conference. Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA
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We expect every one of the 30 PhD participants to present her/his PhD project. The group will be split into two subgroups; the invited scholars will be present in the audience. Catherine Delcroix for the ESA PhD Workshop Organizing Committee September 1st (9h30-13h) explanatory power, coherence, empirical desintegration or reversely consider it as a adequacy, and comprehensiveness way of socialisation. 1° What makes a good citizen? Different concepts of citizenship across Europe and their relationship to civil society. 2° The citizenship/s debate and youth in By Claire Wallace (9h30-11h) September 2nd (9h30-13h) Europe. By Tommi Hoikkala (11h30-13h) The course is based upon surveys of the 1° Religious plurality and conflicts in whole of Europe and looks at different the public sphere. The lecture looks at a series of concepts concepts of citizenship (normative By Anne-Sophie Lamine (9h30-11h) related to the theme of young active citizenship, political citizenship, citizenships. The aim is to achieve some participation in civil society) on a This conference will deal with new conceptual clarification for the discourse comparative basis. It considers people in conflicts, which recently appeared in space of "citizenship" which is at its best different countries, define citizenship and Europe. Among these conflicts are the " and at its worst like a Finnish lake without participation and if these can be headscarf affairs ", antisemitic or shores. The starting point is the modern considered the basis of citizenship. It will islamophobic attacks, anti-european Western concept of citizenship, which was consider the reasons for differences across racism, anti-cult reactions, as well as the born out of the nation-state in which certain Europe in the development of civil society strong debate about the caricatures or rights and obligations were allocated to and in the political trajectories of different blasphemy. These topics are very much individuals under its authority. Usually countries, comparing East and West, North promoted through the media. Many of rights mentioned here include the civil (free and South Europe. these conflicts clearly have a religious speech and movement, the rule of law), the component. In parallel, we also observe political (voting, elections) and the social Secondly the lecture looks critically at new ways of expressing individual and (welfare, health care, unemployment sources of information about citizenship in collective identities, which use the religious insurance). These vary from one state to different European contexts and asks: what repertoires and are often considered as another but the expectation is that modern are the best ways of assessing this obstacles to citizenship and common living. democratic state maintains a combination question. These conflicts are linked to the visibility of of citizenship rights and obligations. religious groups in public sphere and to the religious plurality (among and within One major theme of the paper will be 2° Comparing Sociological and Non- groups). They require a better diversity. Diversity was also sought with the sociological Conceptualisations of understanding on how they are related to plural form of "citizenship" in the title of the Social Capital. religious identities, both at individual, paper. With the use of plural, the intention By Sokratis Koniordos (11h30-13h) group, local or national level. is to give a perspective on the challenges of globalization, as far as they concern In a broad and non-essentialist sense This conflictuality is therefore quite citizenship and cause the dimensions of social capital (SC) means that the relations complex as it goes beyond the relation citizenship to multiply. The point is not to humans enter into are a potential source of between religion and public sphere, as well handle problems in plural nationality and utility and benefit for them. However, the as interpretative conflicts among religious dual citizenship (alone) but to pay attention concept of SC is perceived in divergent groups. It is also present within intergroup to the contemporary societal situation on ways with a plurality of approaches and or interpersonnal relations when the which some late or post-modern theorists empirical operationalizations. cultural difference is interpreted as mainly have claimed that citizenship is dead. In Unfortunately, there is little discussion religious. It is related to ethnic boundaries, the twenty first century, theories of among dissenting viewpoints.The purpose claims of recognition and competing citizenship have expanded from the state- of my presentation is to present some memories. By analysing empirical citizen relationship to everything citizens sociological perceptions of social capital evidences of this conflictuality we will might to do to change their circumstances. (primarily deriving from Pierre Bourdieu, question sociological approaches of Being politically engaged means practicing James S. Coleman and Alehandro Portes), identities, group belonging and beliefs substantive citizenship. This means that and some from the field of political science which often consider them as stronger than citizenship must also be defined as a social (foremostly drawing from Robert D. they really are. We will also discuss process. Putnam and Francis Fukuyama. The idea sociological theories about conflicts which is to compare/evaluate these in terms of either consider it as a threat for
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EU and European youth policy will be aging of the population will create in the 2° The ruse of love. Conflict, power and discussed. The idea of global responsibility years to come explains why transformations of intimacy in violence will be inserted in that context. The intergenerational relationships, beyond the against women. diversity will also be sought by nuclear family, are becoming a relevant By Consuelo Corradi (11h-13h) contemplating the variety of young issue in public debate in Europe. The people's civic activities, and the borders lecture discusses the role of kinship In the last decades, sociological analysis and intersections between the new politics support for care in comparative perspective has almost always explained domestic of the youth and the traditional voting in France and Spain. Intergenerational conflict and violence by reference to a citizenship. The discussion will function as relationships are conceptualised in terms power differential. As men are more a bridge to the themes of consumer of reciprocity and solidarity at the micro powerful than women both in face-to-face citizenship. The central idea of the text was and macro level, using the social care relationships and in the larger society, they is to evoke the themes of classic civic framework developed by Daly and Lewis. tend to control their partner's life, actions virtue which needs stylizing to fit into the Care between generations at the micro and emotions. As a result, conflict may landscape of todays popular and level is concretised in two different develop into a "spiral of violence" in which entertainment culture. Thus the concepts of situations: grandparents as carers of their women are always victims. media citizenship and late modern civic grandchildren and adult children as carers virtue are considered with enthusiasm in of their old parents. Both in France and This sound explanation of gender the text. Spain the role of grandparents as carers relationships is, however, too static. seems to have increased in the last years. Violence against women does not Citizenship/s in the youth perspective raise The main difference between the two decrease in societies where women have the questions of sovereignty and the countries is that in the former kinship gained wider access to the labor market; it conditions of full membership. Can a support complements generous provision does not decrease in societies where member of a community be sovereign if his of services by the state whereas in Spain women are more empowered than in the or her position is secondary? The position grandparents substitute scarce social past; and it does not seem to disappear in of young people in the European societies polices. In both countries it is mostly same sex relations, where gender is not a is secondary and precarious. The situation families that provide care for the elderly, key issue of intimacy. obviously varies from society to society. It the underlying logic of policies being to is not enough that the youth is socialized help families with support services The paper will illustrate first and second as actors, raised to hold the post-modern provided by the state. Conflicts and hand, qualitative and quantitative data European civic virtue and they are offered tensions arise in a moment of social collected in European countries and the the framework of participation. Young change when the logic of intergenerational USA. It will argue that the explanation of people need space, a place and a proper relationships based in reciprocity is altered. violence against women must be social status and the corresponding rights The dominant parsoninan family model integrated. Gender and power are not the (supranational citizenship). based in a gendered division of work gives sole dimensions, but notions of love and way to more egalitarian family forms where desire also concur to shape intimate both men and women share the violence. In particular, the rhetoric of September 3rd (9h30h- responsibility pf economic provision. The romantic love is a powerful semantics for still unresolved issue is care of children, seemingly "pure" (authentic, self-sufficient 13h) the elderly or the handicapped. Several and non-instrumental) relationships, which 1° Intergenerational Relationships, questions to be asked emerge: whether in at the same time are actually laden by the Gender and Social Policy: the cases of the future families and, more specifically, ambiguity of otherness and France and Spain (9h30-11h). middle aged women will continue to be feminine/masculine desire. The paper will By Constanza Tobío available as carers, to what extent this is argue that this type of relationship, both fair or desirable and how should this ambiguous and seemingly pure even if not The concern about the capacity of welfare resource be complemented with other necessarily violent, also characterizes non states to respond to the new demands the resources from the state, the market or the intimate relationships taking place in the community. modern, public sphere. Session: What is happening to sociology students after graduation? ESA Conference, Caledonian University, Glasgow, Monday 4th, 14:00-15:30 Organised and chaired by: Luis Baptista (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Daniel Bertaux (CNRS, Paris)
All over Europe every year, thousands of them? Are there new profiles of sociologist Available statistics about sociologists young women and men come out of higher jobs emerging and developing, in which outside academia will be reported, as well education with a sociology qualification. sectors? As new conceptions and contents as findings of specific research projects. What happens to them? of the job of sociologist appear and Existing initiatives by national sociological multiply, does this retroact on sociology associations to promote employment for It seems that in most European countries curricula themselves? On national sociologists will be mentioned. There will only a small proportion will eventually find a associations of sociologists? be time for discussion. stable job in an academic position. What about the others then? What are the main Answers to such questions and issues This session is organised by the Network types of jobs and careers they find? What probably vary greatly from one European of Associations of Sociology of Southern are the contents of the various types of country to another. This session is European Countries (acronym: RESU); sociologist jobs offered by public organised around presentations of that is, Sociological Associations from institutions, private enterprises, "national" situations. France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. associations, or self-employment? Are sociology students well prepared to take
10 Bulletin of the European Sociologist Association o Issue 25 Summer 2007 ESA PhD Workshop, RN Sociology of Professions Professions, citizenship and the changing worlds of welfare governance ESA Conference, Caledonian University, Glasgow, September 2-3, 2007 This RN Sociology of Professions PhD workshop will be held immediately preceding the ESA Glasgow conference on 2-3 September 2007. It will link the study of professions to changes in the institutional, organisational and cultural frameworks of societies. The call for papers met with great interests. 20 PhD students and other young researchers from all areas of Europe and beyond will learn and discuss together for two days. Most of the participants are new members of ESA. The aim is to provide an opportunity for PhD students and other junior researchers for shared learning and discussion across countries and sociological fields.
Organisation: Ellen Kuhlmann and Viola Burau
Following an Introduction "Professions, Elianne Riska, Viola Burau, University of Aarhus, citizenship and welfare governance: new University of Helsinki, Finland Denmark directions" by Ellen Kuhlmann and Viola Crossing boundaries: gendered migration Comparing occupational governance Burau, six keynote lectures address some and the medical profession across countries: challenges for research of the main topics in the sociology of design professions: Ellen Kuhlmann, Germany, Pavel Romanov and Elena Iarskaia- Julia Evetts, Smirnova, For further information on the programme University of Nottingham, UK Saratov State Technical University, Russia and abstracts please visit the website of Professionalism and managerialism: Technologies of knowledge and RN Sociology of Professions: Organisational control at a distance professional power www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/profe.htm or Vittorio Oligiati, Mike Saks, University of Lincoln, UK and contact the organisers Ellen Kuhlmann University of Urbino, Italy Ellen Kuhlmann, Germany ([email protected]) and Removing borders in the worlds of welfare Citizenship and professional governance: Viola Burau ([email protected]). governance? Law, policy and education user choice and the public interest after Bologna MeetMeet thethe AuthorsAuthors
Meet the Author sessions, Wednesday Discussants: Thomas Eberle (Universität Discussants: Mark Jacobs (George Mason 5th September, 4.00pm - 5.30pm St Gallen, Switzerland), Shalva Weil University, USA) and Ana Lisa Tota (Hebrew University, Israel) (University of Rome III, Italy) Session 1: Room M137 Book: Mike Keen and Janusz Mucha, Session 3: Room M201 Session 5: Room C001 Autobiographies of Transformation Book: Ruth Lister and Fiona Williams et Book: Jeffrey Alexander, The Civil Sphere (Routledge 2005). al, Gendering Citizenship in Western (Oxford University Press 2006). Europe: New Challenges for Citizenship Author/speaker: Janusz Mucha (AGH Research in Western Europe (Policy Author/speaker: Jeffrey Alexander (Yale University, Cracow, Poland) Press 2007) University, USA)
Discussants: Peggy Watson (Cambridge Author/speaker: Ruth Lister (University of Discussants: Patrick Baert (University of University, UK), Daniel Bertaux (Ecole des Loughborough, UK) and Fiona Williams Cambridge, UK) and Carlo Ruzza Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, (University of Leeds) (University of Trento, Italy) CNRS- Centre d'Etude des Mouvements Sociaux Paris, France) Discussants: Catherine Delcroix Session 6: Room M323 (University of Strasbourg, France) and Monica Threlfall, Christine Cousins and Session 2: Room W110 Analia Cardoso Torres (Instituto Superior Celia Valiente, Gendering Spanish Book: Uwe Flick, (Alice Salomon de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Democracy (Routledge 2004) University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Portugal) Germany) Author/Speaker: Monica Threlfall An Introduction to Qualitative Research Session 4: Room M001 (university of Loughborough, UK) (Sage 2006). Book: Robin Wagner-Pacifici, The Art of Surrender (University of Chicago Press, Discussants: Constanza Tobio Soler Author/speaker: Uwe Flick (Alice Salomon 2005). (University of Madrid, Spain) and Bianca University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, Becalli (Università di MIlano, Italy) Germany) Author/speaker: Robin Wagner-Pacifici (Swarthmore College, USA)
11 Summer 2007 Issue 25 o Bulletin of the European Sociologist Association NewsNews forfor ResearchResearch NetworksNetworks
ESA Research Network Council not quite ready yet to present in In the Glasgow Conference there will be Research the RN sessions, they could be Networks Council at 2.00-3.30pm on Monday 3 encouraged to present their September. This is an initiative by Giovanna Procacci, research as a poster instead. Of the President, and the ESA executive Committee. As course rejection of abstracts is the RNs are central in the organisation of the ESA also one option. conferences, it was considered important to have a common forum between the executive and the RNs in This point is made because some order to discuss issues of current concern within ESA. complaints have been received in The aim is to formalise this body of consultation in the previous conferences. We need General Assembly that takes place during the to be as inclusive as possible, but conference. we also need to have a good Tuula Gordon conference. Whilst it is important to make this point, it The purpose of RN Council is to improve is also important to foster inclusion and to promote communications between the ESA, so that members younger scholars in positive ways. Here the RNs are can raise issues with the executive, and the executive in a central strategic position. has an opportunity to consult RN representatives. We hope that all RNs choose a representative to come to Research Networks the meeting in order to discuss issues related to the The research networks have an important role in the ESA. The President, Giovanna Procacci and the organisation of the ESA. They form the backbone of members of the executive will also endeavour to make the whole organisation. Therefore it is important that this a forum where European science policies can be we have up-to-date information about the research addressed. We want to promote sociology and social networks. Information about research networks can be sciences in the context of the European science policy found in the ESA home pages. However, this - for example the European Science Foundation. It is information can be rather scant and it is not always up- interesting to have these discussions in Glasgow, a to-date. Problems have been encountered when there city with a long industrial history and diversity of has been a change of coordinators, and no inhabitants. information has been received.
Conference Abstracts In order to improve the possibilities of communication The ESA Glasgow Conference organising committee between the executive and RNs - and between RNs has received 1800 abstracts by the submission too - we would like you to send to Tuula Gordon deadline. Initially there were some worries, because ([email protected]) before the ESA RNs there were few early abstracts. However, on the day of Council meets in Glasgow information confirming the the deadline the organisers received 1023 abstracts. following: The RN coordinators have received the abstracts as * The chair (co-coordinator or convener) of the RN well. We are looking forward to a successful * The deputy chair (or names of co-convenors) of the conference in a city that is interesting for sociologists RN in many ways both historically and in the present. * Membership or email list (at least the central core) Having this information helps us to communicate in a The selection of accepted abstracts is made by RNs. more effective way. In the past there has been some discussion about the Looking forward to a successful conference in variable quality of papers in the ESA conferences. Glasgow Whilst we need to have beginners as well as more experienced paper presenters, it is nevertheless Tuula Gordon, Vice President for Research Networks desirable that the paper sessions are interesting and On behalf of the Executive and the Research Network successful. If, for example, younger researchers are Committee - Sara Arber (UK), Sokratis Koniordos (Greece) and Valerij Mansurov (Russia) ESA-Book Series “Studies in European Societies” You might not be aware of our book series “Studies in European Societies”, published by Routledge. The series publishes high-quality books on sociological issues relevant to Europe.
Comparative research is particularly welcome! If you have any ideas for a proposal, please contact me: Patrick Baert (E-Mail: [email protected]) / Vice-President of Publications of the ESA
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To date, the ESA Executive Committee RN12 - Environment and Society Homepage: has approved the following Research Kris van Koppen, contact via http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/risk.htm Networks. http://www.esa-esn.org Homepage: RN23 - Sexuality RN1 - Ageing in Europe http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/environ.htm John Vincke, [email protected] Andreas Motel-Klingebiel, [email protected] Homepage: Homepage: RN13 - Sociology of Families and http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/sexuality.htm http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/ageing.htm intimate Lives Karin Wall, [email protected] RN24 - Science and Technology RN2 - Sociology of the Arts Homepage: Luisa Oliveira, [email protected] Volker Kirchberg, http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/family.htm Homepage: [email protected] http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/science.htm Homepage: RN14 - Gender Relations in the Labour http://www.esa-arts.net/ Market and the Welfare State RN25 - Social Movements Margareta Kreimer, Chair: Carlo Ruzza, RN3 - Biographical Perspectives on [email protected], [email protected] European Societies Sara Falcão Casaca, [email protected], Co-chair: Thomas Oleson, Robin Humphrey, Vanessa Beck, [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Homepage: Homepage: Homepage: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/gendlab.htm http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/movement.htm http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/biog.htm RN15 - Globalization RN26 - Sociology of Social Policy RN4 - Sociology of Children and Bart van Steenbergen, Angharad Beckett, Childhood [email protected] [email protected] Chair: Jo Moran-Ellis, Homepage: Justin Waring, [email protected] http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/global.htm [email protected] Homepage: RN5 - Sociology of Consumption RN16 - Sociology of Health and Illness http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/policy.htm Evind Stoe, [email protected] Elizabeth Ettorre, Homepage: [email protected] RN27 - Regional Network on Southern http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/consume.htm Homepage: European Societies http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/medsoc.htm Sokratis Koniordos, RN6 - Critical Political Economy [email protected] Jan Drahokoupil, RN17 - Industrial Relations, Labour Homepage: [email protected] Market Institutions and Employment http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/south.htm Homepage: Franz Traxler, [email protected] http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/polecon.htm Homepage: RN28 - Society and Sports http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/labmarkt.htm Ørnulf Seippel, RN7 - Sociology of Culture [email protected] Rudi Laermans RN18 - Sociology of Communications Homepage: [email protected] and Media Research http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/sport.htm Homepage: Peter Golding, [email protected] http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/culture.htm Homepage: RN29 - Social Theory http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/commun.htm Patrick Baert, RN8 - Disaster and Social Crisis [email protected] Philip Buckle,[email protected] RN19 - Sociology of Professions Homepage: Homepage: Ellen Kuhlmann, http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/theory.htm http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/disaster.htm [email protected] Homepage: RN30 - Youth and Generation RN9 - Economic Sociology http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/profe.htm Carsten Yndigegn, [email protected] Rafael Marques, [email protected], Homepage: Maria Nawojczyk, [email protected], RN20 - Qualitative Methods http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/youth.htm Oliver Kessler, Shalva Weil, [email protected] [email protected] Homepage: Homepage: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/qual.htm On the ESA webpage you can find http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/ecs.htm more information on Research RN21 - RENCORE: Methods for Networks: RN10 - Sociology of Education Comparative Research on Europe * Guidelines for Research Networks Mart-Jan de Jong, [email protected] Peter Mohler, More info: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/ Homepage: [email protected] networksreportsept05.doc http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/educa.htm Homepage: * What Research Networks are for http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/rencore.htm More info: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/ RN11 - Sociology of Emotions networks3.htm Åsa Wettergren, [email protected] RN22 - Sociology of Risk and * How to establish a Research Network Homepage: Uncertainty More info: http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/ http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/esa/emotions.htm Jens Zinn, [email protected] networks3.htm
13 Summer 2007 Issue 25 o Bulletin of the European Sociologist Association Election of the president and of the members of the Executive Committee All members in good standing will vote for president of ESA and for members of the executive committee for the next two year period. Members may vote before the Conference by regular mail or at the Conference itself, where the election procedures will be closed (by Wed.5th at noon). All members in good standing will be sent together with this Summer issue of ESA Newsletter a voting card with their name (to be signed), the ballot with the nominated candidates, a neutral envelope and an addressed larger envelope for sending the ballot back to Gisèle Tchinda, ESA secretariat, 59-61 rue Pouchet, 75017 Paris (France). If you wish to vote in Glasgow, bring with you your voting card and look for the ballot organized at the Conference (open the all day Tuesday 4th and Wednesday 5th until noon). Information Nominated candidates for President of ESA
Who can vote? Patrick Baert (UK) All people who have paid their dues by the Patrick Baert is Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at Selwyn College, Cambridge time when election procedures will be University. He is interested in social theory; philosophy of social science; and sociology of culture. closed at the Glasgow Conference. Those Amongst his publications are Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (2005), Social Theory in the who are already eligible by the end of June 20th Century (1998), Time, Self and Social Being (1992), and the edited volumes Pragmatism and European Social will receive the voting card and ballot by Theory (with BS Turner, 2007) and Time in Contemporary Intellectual Thought (2000). Originally from Brussels, he mail together with this Summer-issue of the obtained his doctorate from Oxford University, and has held various visiting posts; for instance, Amiens, Aix-en- Provence, Berlin, Brussels, Cape Town, Concepcion, London, Paris, Rome and Vancouver. ESA newsletter. Other members registering to ESA later on may ask for their voting card He is Vice-President for Publications of the ESA, has been a member of the Executive Committee of the ESA for in Glasgow at the ballot. 4 years, and is also the coordinator of the Social Theory Research Network of the ESA. He holds editorial positions at European Societies, the Journal for Classical Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory, and the International Journal of the Humanities. See also www.sps.cam.ac.uk/stafflist/pbaert_research.html Who can be elected? All candidates need to be ESA members in Consuelo Corradi (Italy) good standing with the association. Beside PH.D. in sociology (1987), Professor of sociology, Director of the Graduate School of social work and member of we list the nominated candidates for the Dean's Council at Lumsa University (Rome, Italy). She has taught at Università Roma 3 and Brandeis president and executive committee with University (Boston, Usa). Her main area of interest is social theory; she writes on violence, social and personal identity, post-secular societies, and theories of modernity. She has been Member of the Executive Committee of short CVs, in order that you can think about the International Sociological Association Research Committee 38 "Biography and Society", in 1995-1999, and them and discuss with your colleagues. It is Member of the Executive Committee and Standing Delegate for international relations for the Italian Association of also possible to express candidate Sociology, in 2004-2007. preferences by writing in the name (or Among her most recent publications: "Il corpo della donna come luogo della guerra" (Woman's Body as the Locus names) of other ESA members in good of War) in Difesa sociale (special issue on mass rape; 2, 2007), and "Identity and Extreme Violence. Some standing. However, only ten candidates can Elements for a Definition of Violence in Modernity" in A. Cavalli (ed.), Issues and Trends in Italian Sociology be voted for the executive and only one for (forthcoming, 2007). She sits in the Editorial Committee of several Italian sociological journals, and is currently working on a book-length project on violence and modernity, and on a long essay on beauty and the sacred in post- presidency. secular societies.
Voting procedures Thomas S. Eberle (Switzerland) Voting is possible by regular mail, sending Professor and Co-Director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of St Gallen, Switzerland; President of the back the voting card and ballot to the ESA Swiss Sociological Association (1998-2005), and member of the Social Science Policy Council of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences (2000-2005). office before the Conference; ESA members can also vote during the His main research areas are social theory, sociology of culture and knowledge, communication, organization and Conference, where a ballot will be open the methodology, qualitative methods, and ethnography. He has published in three languages, among other topics on all day of Tuesday 4th and Wed.5th of Sept. theoretical and methodological issues of phenomenology and sociology of knowledge, on reading societies, the social construction of gender relations, dislocation policies in Western Europe; he recently edited books on 2007 until 12 o'clock (noon). Elections qualitative inquiry, the triumph and misery of neoliberalism, and the special case of Switzerland. He was Visiting results will be announced in the ESA Scholar (1980-82) and Visiting Research Associate (1994) at the University of California, Santa Barbara; guest General Assembly, Wed.5th at 18:00-19:30. professor at the Universities of Konstanz (1998-99) and Vienna (2004); and he has regular teaching assignments at the Universities of Basel and Zurich.
The 2007 Nominations Committee: He is an active member of several professional organizations and editorial boards, and has organized a number Chair: Daniel Bertaux of conferences. Prof. Eberle also has extensive experience on multicultural and multilingual teams. Within ESA, he J.P. Roos, Yasemine Soysal, Capitolina has been a Board member of the Research Network Qualitative Methods since 2000 (and its Chair, 2001-2003), and is a founding board member of the RN Sociology of Culture (since 2005). Colleagues praise his management Diaz, Max Haller, Roberto Cipriani, Galina and organization capabilities, communication skills, dedication, ability as a team player, gentle approach to people, Osadkaya and personal integrity. (www.sfs.unisg.ch)
The Nominations Committee has had wide Claire Wallace (UK) consultations and asked for proposals from Claire Wallace is Professor of sociology at the University of Aberdeen and Director of the New Europe Centre there. She was previously head of Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and at the Central European ESA members, ESA RNs and from national University in Prague. She was editor of the official journal of the ESA "European Societies" until 2006 and helped sociological associations in Europe. Based to make it into an internationally recognised journal and forum for presenting the work of the Association. Claire on these consultations, a slate of 30 Wallace has co-ordinated a number of European projects and worked as consultant to the European Commission, candidates to the executive committee (15 the European Parliament and the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions as well as the World Bank. of each gender) has been made, taking into account region and field of research. Four At present the main research projects are about East-West migration and the relationship between work and care persons have been nominated as (see http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/research/nec/) although she has recently finished studies about the Quality of Life in Europe and Social Capital in Europe. Claire Wallace teaches European Societies at the University of candidates for the ESA presidency. Aberdeen and is currently writing a textbook on this subject.
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Female Candidates sustainable development. Her main publications deal Marie-Thérèse Letablier (France) with intergenerational transfers, social networks and Marie-Thérèse Letablier is a senior Researcher in Ursula Apitzsch (Germany) reciprocal survival strategies of migrants, poverty sociology in the (French) Centre National de la Ursula Apitzsch is - since 1993 - full professor of dynamics in Turkey, domestic violence, labour market Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); she is presently political science and sociology at J.W. Goethe- participation of migrant women, living arrangements of heading the Research unit Employment and Social University of Frankfurt/Main and member of the Board elderly, youth unemployment and social impact Policy in the Centre d'Etudes de l'Emploi, Paris. Her of Directors of the Frankfurt Centre for Women's and assessment of irrigation and dam projects in the South research interests include work, family and gender Gender Studies CGC. She is research fellow at the Eastern Region of Turkey. She has coordinated and issues, studied in a European comparative perspective: Frankfurt Institute of Social Research and has been the became partner to many social research funded by childcare services and their workforce, and the lead researcher in a considerable number of empirical international institutions like World Bank, UNFPA, relationship between employment and caring. Her research projects on migrant and marginalized groups. UNDP and EU. She has also worked in joint projects publications include Families and Family Policies in She published broadly in the fields of migration, culture, with some government departments and municipalities Europe (with Linda Hantrais, 1996, Longman), Familles and biographical policy analysis; on problems of cross- as a counselor mainly in the poverty projects for social et travail: contraintes et arbitrages (with J. Fagnani, national policy evaluation, politics of ethnicity, inclusion. She is a member of the Turkish Sociological 2001, La documentation française). She co-edited with consulting policies in the field of migrant self Association and has been a member of ESA since JC Barbier Social Policies: Epistemological and employment, and on biographical analysis with special 1996. methodological Issues in Cross-National Comparison regard to gender and citizenship. Among her book (Peter Lang, 2005). publications are: Migration und Traditionsbildung Zuzana Kusá (Slovakia) (1999); Biographical analysis and professional practice Zuzana Kusá is a Senior Research Fellow at the She has participated in several European research (ed. with Joanna Bornat and Prue Chamberlayne, Institute for Sociology Slovak Academy of Sciences and networks: on Families and Family Policies, on Gender 2004); Migration, Biographie und she lectures at Comenius University Bratislava and Employment, on Social practices and Social Geschlechterverhältnisse (ed. with Mechtild Jansen, (qualitative research methods, problems of poverty). Policies with regard to working and mothering, and on 2003). She has been working for many years with Her research and publication focuses on public Childcare services. She also contributed to several colleagues of the Research Network "Biographical discourse, social identities, social policy and social books on Care and Care Policies in the European Perspectives on European Societies". cohesion. As an expert for Slovak Republic she works Union. in the Group of Independent Experts in the field of Mary P. Corcoran (Ireland) social inclusion (DG Employment Unit II). She is a Elina Oinas (Finland) Mary P. Corcoran is a Senior Lecturer in the member of the board for PhD studies in sociology at the Elina Oinas is researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Department of Sociology, National University of Ireland, Social Sciences Faculty Masaryk University in Brno, Uppsala, Sweden, as well as research fellow at the Maynooth. She is a graduate of the University of Czech Republic, a member of the editorial boards of the Institute of Women's Studies at the Åbo Akademi Dublin, Trinity College and Columbia University, New journals Biograf (Prague) and Sociological Studies University, Finland, and the Beatrice M. Bain Research York. Her research and teaching interests lie primarily (Brno) and national coordinator of European Values Group at the University of California, Berkeley. She is in the field of Irish migratory processes, urban Study programme in Slovakia. She is a member of the interested in young women, gender, health and transformations, and public/civic cultures. She has Committee of Slovak Sociological Association, its embodiment, and feminist post-colonial social theory. participated in a number of national and international treasurer and the head of its methodological section. She has worked on Scandinavian girls, embodiment research projects exploring aspects of the urban and gender equality; health promotion and feminism; environment such as the quality of life in housing Monika Kwiecinska (Poland) (2nd term) and most recently HIV activism among young women in estates, how people cope with precariousness in Dr Monika Kwiecinska-Zdrenka is a tutor and deputy South Africa. She is editor of NORA - Nordic Journal of deprived neighbourhoods, and the new Irish suburbs. director of Institute of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus Women's Studies, and member of the Editorial Board of She has numerous publications, including Irish Illegals: University in Torun. Studied in Torun, Liverpool and the new Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Transients Between Two Societies (1993), about Uppsala. Her research interests are in youth life undocumented Irish people in New York; A Sociology of strategies and choices, sociology of education, Katharina Scherke (Austria) Ireland, Gill and MacMillan (3rd edition, 2007, as co- educational inequalities and she has published widely author); and "Social support networks in impoverished in these areas. The findings of her research that are Dr. Katharina Scherke is associate professor at the European neighbourhoods: case studies from Italy and part of Torun longitudinal studies in the area of department of sociology at the Karl-Franzens- Ireland" (with M. Olagnero and A. Meo), European sociology of youth and education were published Universität Graz. She is member of the board of the Austrian Association of Sociology since 2005. Her Societies, 2005. among others in the book: Aktywni czy bezrdani wobec wlasnej przyszlosci. Mlodziez wiejska na tle ogólu research interests are in History of Sociology, Consuelo Corradi (Italy) mlodziezy (Helpless or active towards their future. Sociological Theory, Sociology of the Arts and Culture, Sociology of Emotions, and Sociology of Science: the Portrait of rural youth, 2004). She was the secretary of See ESA-President Canditates relationship between sociology and its neighbouring the local conference committee of the 7th ESA disciplines. Between 1999 and 2004 she took part in the Jo Moran-Ellis (UK) conference in Torun and has served as deputy treasurer in the current ESA Executive Committee. interdisciplinary project Modernity - Vienna and Central Head of the Department of Sociology at the University Europe around 1900. In 2003 she was awarded the of Surrey and has been an active member of the ESA Burgen Scholarship of the Academia Europea 'in since 1999. She has also been active in the ISA in the Marju Lauristin (Estonia) recognition of excellent academic achievement'. She Sociology of Childhood Research Committee since Marju Lauristin is professor emeritus of Tartu University has been ESA member since 2001, RNs Sociology of 1996, including being Secretary to the RC committee. and extraordinary professor of social communication. Emotions and Sociology of Arts. Her recent publications Her research interests are in two main areas: the She graduated Tartu University in philosophy and had are Entgrenzte Räume. Kulturelle Transfers um 1900 Sociology of Childhood, and research methodology. doctoral degree in Journalism studies from Moscow und in der Gegenwart (ed. with H. Mitterbauer, Wien Her work in the Sociology of Childhood is concerned University. She had served as a head of the laboratory 2005); and Emotionen als Forschungsgegenstand in with children as social agents and the concept of of Sociology and dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences der deutschsprachigen Soziologie (Wiesbaden 2007, competence. She has published in this area and is in Tartu University. She is a member of the Council of forthcoming). currently developing linked work on children and sleep, United Nations University in Tokyo and of the and children's mental health. Together with two Aleksanteri Institute by University of Helsinki, and is a Anália Cardoso Torres (Portugal) colleagues (Randi Dyblie Nilsen and Madeleine corresponding editor of European Journal of (2nd term) Leonard) she established the Sociology of Children and Communication. She had lectured in University of Turku Childhood Research Network in 2006 and prior to that and collaborated in several international research Anália Cardoso Torres, Portuguese, 14/8/1954, Lisboa, had organised sessions in this field at ESA conferences projects, most recently she was leading an Estonian PhD in Sociology, President of the Portuguese National since 1999, frequently working with Leena Alanen on team in EU F6 project 'Adequate Information Sociological Association (2002-2006). Professor in the Department of Sociology of ISCTE (Higher Institute for this. Her methodological work has been primarily in the Management in Europe'. In 2006 she had received field of mixed methods including a reflexive Doctor Honoris Causae from University of Helsinki. Social and Management Sciences) in Lisbon and a methodological study looking at integrating methods. Currently she is teaching theory of mass researcher in CIES/ISCTE; coord. of a postgraduate Master's degree in Family and Society; research on She has also been a co-investigator in a study into communication, strategic communication and political family, gender, marriage, divorce, relation between public attitudes towards research governance of communication. biomedical research. work and family, poverty, drug addition. Senior Her main research interests are in sociological studies researcher in European Social Survey's team for Portugal; teaching, researching and publishing in Sibel Kalaycioglu (Turkey) of post-communist transformation and of minority Europe and in Brazil. Assoc. Prof., Head of the Department of Sociology and issues. Among her publications are: She Who the Director of South Eastern Anatolian Research and Remembers Survives: Interpreting Estonian Women's Post-Soviet Life Stories Tartu, 2004 (co-ed); Social Books: Time Use and Work Life Options over the Life Development Center in Middle East Technical Course (in English, 2007); Contexts and Social University, Ankara, Turkey. Her Ph.D. is from University Contradictions Shadowing Estonian "Success Story" in Attitudes in Europe (ed.) 2006; Men and Women of Kent at Canterbury, 1995. Her interest areas are Demokratizatsiya. Journal of Post-Soviet between Work and Family (2004); Drugs and Prisons in mostly focused on: sociology of migration, Democratization, 11, 4, Fall 2003,; The Challenge of Russian Minority. Tartu, 2002 (co-ed); Return to the Portugal (2002). Individual authorship of four books: intergenerational relations, inequalities in work, health, Divorce in Portugal, 1996; Sociology of Marriage, 2001; ageing, youth and poverty and social exclusion- Western World: Cultural and Political Perspectives on Marriage in Portugal, 2002; Marital Life and Work, inclusion, relationship between state and civil society, Estonian Post-Communist Transition. Tartu, 1997 (co- 2004. citizenship, informal work, and social indicators of ed).
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Claire Wallace (UK) Pierre Desmarez (Belgium) Sokratis M. Koniordos (Greece) See ESA-President Canditates Pierre Desmarez is full professor at the french-speaking (2nd term) Free University of Brussels. He teaches general Sokratis M. Koniordos has been elected Associate Shalva J. Weil (Israel) sociology, sociological methodology and sociology of Professor at the Hellenic Open University (appointment employment and of the professions. He is also director pending); currently at the Dept. of Sociology, University Dr. Shalva J. Weil received her B.A. in sociology from of the Centre for the Sociology of Work, Employment L.S.E and her D. Phil.in anthropology from Sussex of Crete. He obtained his Ph.D from the London School and Training (TEF - Travail, Emploi, Formation). He is a University, UK. She is Senior Researcher at the of Economics and has authored or edited seven books member of the executive committee of the French Research Institute for Innovation in Education at the including: Towards a Sociology of Artisans: Continuities journal Sociologie du travail and of the Scientific and Discontinuities in Comparative Perspective (2001); Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she conducts Advisory Board of the European Social Survey. His research into qualitative methods, violence in Israeli and (ed.) Networks, Trust and Social Capital: main research topics are comparative analysis of and Palestinian schools, ritual and ethnicity. Dr. Weil Theoretical and Empirical Investigations from Europe employment systems, longitudinal analysis of work has published over 80 articles in scientific journals, (2005). His main research interests are in the area of histories, industrial injuries, and the history of sociology. economic sociology and sociology of work: particularly including Man, Human Organisation, Contributions to Amongst his most recent publications are articles in Indian Sociology, Journal of Social Studies, Journal of civil society, social participation, social capital, social L'année sociologique, Stress and Health and Le travail embedded ness and trust, work identity, work relations, Comparative Family Studies and Ethnic Groups, has humain. contributed entries to major encyclopaedias, and is on self-employment and micro-businesses, living and the editorial board of several scientific journals, working conditions, and the cultural economy. including Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Her Thomas S. Eberle (Switzerland) books include: Roots and Routes: Ethnicity and See ESA-President Canditates Sokratis M. Koniordos on Participation in the ESA Exec: Migration in Global Perspective (Magnes, 1999), India's “During the last two years I have actively and regularly Jewish Heritage (Marg, 2002 and 2004), and Indo- Aykan Erdemir (Turkey) participated in the meetings and deliberations of the Executive Committee of the ESA. In particular, I have Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave- He is an assistant professor of sociology in the Macmillan 2007). been a member of the Research Networks Committee, Department of Sociology of the Middle East Technical the Post-graduate Research Committee, and I have University, Ankara. He is also the deputy dean of the undertaken a co-ordinating role for the re-launching of Shalva Weil is President of SOSTEJE (Society for the Graduate School of Social Sciences. He received his the Regional Network on Southern European Study of Ethiopian Jewry) and has been the recipient of Ph.D. from the joint program on Social Anthropology Societies.” awards for her applied educational work among and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University with Ethiopian Jews. As ESA Qualitative Methods Research a dissertation on Alevi faith-based collective action in Network Coordinator, she co-organized a successful Turkey. His research interests are immigrant work and Valery A. Mansurov (Russia) (2nd term) mid-term at Cardiff, initiated an ESF workshop on the remittance strategies, faith-based collective action, Valery A. Mansurov is Deputy Director of the Institute of Quality of Qualitative Methods, and is looking forward to antagonistic tolerance and European ethnography. He Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and running 11 sessions in the ESA Glasgow conference. is currently conducting research on Turkish immigrants President of the Russian Society of Sociologists (RSS). in London and competitive sharing of religious sites in Elena Zamfir (Rumania) Turkey. Main publications: Intelligentsia and Power Dr. Elena Zamfir is professor and researcher at the (Intelligentsia i vlast), Moscow, 1991; Intelligentsia and Faculty of Sociology and Social Work of the University He co-authored a book entitled Alevism-Bektashism: A Power // The future of the Moment Before, 1993, ISIG, of Bucharest; she directs its Ph.D. school and has been Brief Introduction in 2006 and a COMPAS working Gorizia, Italy: Changes in the USSR-Russia Social the head of its Department of Social Work and Social paper entitled "Differentiating irregularity and solidarity: Structure // Social Factors and Designing Civil Society Psychology since 1992. Her interest are in social Turkish Immigrants at work in London" in 2007. Dr. of Eastern Europe, 1995, GAI Press Inc., London; policies, sociology, social psychology, and the Erdemir is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Russia Today: Sociological Outlook, RSS, Moscow, management of social work services. She has Sociological Research and Kirkbudak: Anatolian 1999; Child Labour in Russia //Hidden Hands: coordinated twenty-eight research projects on poverty, Journal of Folk Religion. International Perspectives on Children's Work and social exclusion, quality of life, gender equality, the Labour. Ed. Philip Mizen, Christopher Pole, Angela rom population, social services, problems for high risk He is a member of the executive boards of the Turkish Botton . London-New York, 2001; Russian Sociology groups. She has published 25 books as single author or Sociological Association and the Association for the To-Day//Russian Sociology. - Changes and Problems, co-author, 65 articles or chapters, among which 15 in Research of Anatolian Folk Beliefs. RSS. Moscow, 2002; The Return of Russian foreign journals. She is Director of the Rumanian Sociology// Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe / journal Social Work Review. She is Management Vice- Rodolfo Gutiérrez (Spain) Edited by M. F. Keen and Janusz L. Mucha. London, president of the MOST Program of the UNESCO. 2003; Powrot socjologii rosyjskiej// Pierwsze Lata Dr. Gutierrez has a PH D in Sociology at Complutense Suwerennosci/ Wydawnictwo Institutu Filozofii i University of Madrid(1983). Currently he is Professor of Socjologii PAN, Warszawa, 2004; and more than 200 Sociology at University of Oviedo. Since 2002 he is also other publications. Director of Studies at Economic and Social Council of Spain. He has been Research Fellow at Harvard Male Candidates He has been Vice President of RSS, 1991-1997; a Thomas P. Boje (Denmark) University (1997-1998). His main research areas are in member or head of Organizational Committees of more economic sociology, sociology of work and than 50 national conferences and 10 international Thomas P. Boje is Professor of Social Science (labour occupations. Recently he has been working on conferences. He led the Soviet part of the international market and sociology) at Department of Society and comparative social structures and policies. He is Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. He was project "Class Structure and Class Consciousness" member of the Network of Excellence "Reconciling (coordinator E.O.Wright, USA). 1985-1991: co- one of the founding members of the ESA as member Work and Welfare in Europe" (RECWOWE). the steering committees in the period 1989 - 95 and president of Soviet part of Soviet-Finish Working group member of the Executive Committee 1995 - 1999 on sociology. Some of his main publications are in books like (treasurer). Thomas P. Boje was the first editor in chief Protecting Employment (1990), Youth Report Spain of European Societies. Today he is international From 1992 up to now, RSS representative at the ISA 1992 (1993), Studies on Spanish Labour Market (1995), Council of National Associations. From 2005, member coordinator for the CINEFOGO Network of Excellence Youth, Labour Markets and Employment Policies financed by EU through the 6th FP and has previously of the ESA Executive Committee (Program Committee (1999), History of Spanish Sociology (2001) y Spain in been partner in four different EU research projects. He and Committee for Networks). the XXI Century (2007). He has published articles in is co-editor of Dansk Sociologi and has recently been European Societies and International Labour Brief. editor of Acta Sociologica. Recent publications include Michel Messu (France) Gender, Welfare State and the Market (Routledge, Bill Hughes (Scotland / UK) Michel Messu is Professor of sociology at the Université 2000 with A. Leira), Post-industrial Labour Markets, de Nantes, and also at the Conservatoire National des (Routledge Studies in Modern World Economy 2003 Dr. Bill Hughes is Head of the Division of Social Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris where he teaches Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University. He with B. Furåker), and Families and Welfare in Europe social workers. His main research fields are family completed his undergraduate studies at the University (Ashgate 2005 with P. Abrahamson and B. Greve). policy, social policy, public policy, qualitative method, of Stirling and was awarded his PhD by the University epistemology of social sciences. Mikael Carleheden (Sweden) of Aberdeen. Bill teaches primarily in the areas of Health, disability, social theory and the body. His He is Director of the CNRS-affiliated research centre Mikael Carleheden (born 1958) Associate Professor of research interests include disability and impairment, Sociology at the Department of Social and Political GRASS (GRoupe d'Analyse du Social et de la sociological approaches to care, the body and social Sciences, Örebro University, Sweden. He is vice Sociabilité), which focuses on sociological issues theory and equality and diversity. He is co-author (with ensuing directly from public policies. The GRASS is president of the Swedish Sociological Association and several colleagues at Glasgow Caledonian University) is presently working out a theory about the structural located in the same building as the ESA secretary' of The Body, Culture and Society: An Introduction transformation of modernity on both micro and macro office in Paris (formerly IRESCO-CNRS, now Site (Open University Press 2000). He has published in level. Pouchet-CNRS) Michel MESSU has also participated in Sociology, Body and Society and is a regular several ESA Conferences. contributor to and a member of the Editorial Board of His latest publications in English are: "The Disability and Society. transformation of our conduct of life: one aspect of the Continued on next page... three epochs of Western modernity" in /Distinktion: He is also an Associate Director of the Centre for Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory/ No 13 2006 and Research into Families and Relationships (CRFR) at "Towards democratic foundations: a Habermasian the University of Edinburgh and Co-Chair of the Local perspective on the politics of education" in /Journal of Organizing Committee for the ESA 8th conference to be Curriculum Studies/ 38 (5) 2006. held in Glasgow in September 2007.
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Apostolis Papakostas (Sweden) include 'Europe and Civil Society: Movement Coalitions Jellinek Memorial Award for research in cultural and Apostolis Papakostas is Associate Professor of and European Governance', Manchester University policy studies on alcohol. He has served as a senior Sociology at the recently established Södertörn Press 2004, and recently 'Governance and Civil research fellow of the Academy of Finland 2004-2005. University College, Stockholm, Sweden. In addition, he Society: Normative Dimensions' (edited with V. D. His research interests are social theory, power, is Research Director at the Centre of Baltic and East Sala), Manchester University Press 2007, and a sociology of the contemporary state, and sociology of European Studies (CBEES), where he heads a companion volume on policy perspectives). He is alcohol and addictions. He is currently director of a multidisciplinary research team on the emerging presently completing a book on populism and right wing research project on "Regulation of Life Practices and "landscapes of the political" in Eastern Europe. He also parties and movements in Italy. the Nature-Culture Problem", and the consortium leads (with Professor Sven Hort) a research program "Images and Representations of Addiction", funded by entitled "Functioning Neighborhoods in Segregated He is currently a member of the Executive Committee the Academy of Finland. Cities: A Research Program on Urban Life, Welfare and of the ESA. He has chaired the external relations Democracy around the Baltic Sea" at the School of committee and is also the co-coordinator of the Social Publications include The European New Middle Class Social Sciences. Dr Papakostas has studied in Greece Movements Network of the ESA. He holds editorial 1992, Constructing the New Consumer Society (eds.) and Sweden and is familiar with both Southern positions at European Societies and the Journal of 1997, Introduction to Sociology (in Finnish and European and Scandinavian sociology. He received his European Integration. Swedish), and a number of other books in Finnish, PhD from the department of sociology, Stockholm Swedish, English and French. University, in 1995 and together with Göran Ahrne at Norbert F. Schneider (Germany) the Stockholm Center for Organizational Research, Dr. Schneider is full professor of sociology at the Sinisa Zrinscak (Croatia) Stockholm University (Score), has been involved in Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz. He is Dr. Sinisa Zrinscak is Professor of Social Policy at the several research projects concerning the organizational President Elect of the European Society on Family University of Zagreb. His main scientific interests aspects of contemporary society and social change. Relations, co-editor of the Journal for Family Research, include comparative and European social policy, member of the Advisory Board for Family Policy of Church-State relations, religious and social policy He has published books and articles on social Rhineland-Palatinate, and since 2006 coordinator of a changes in post-communism, and civil society movements, civil society, state development, political research consortium in the Sixth Framework development. He is editor in chief of the Croatian parties, social change, corruption, and political Programme of the European Commission with the topic Journal of Social Policy, and has published numerous clientelism. He has been a member of the executive Job Mobilities and Family Lives in Europe. articles in Croatia and abroad, including several books. boards of the Swedish Sociological Association and the Nordic Sociological Association. Currently he is the His main areas of research and teaching are Sociology He served as President of the Croatian Sociological editor of the Nordic language peer review journal of the Family, Sociology of Consumption and Mobility Association (2005-2007), and is currently its Vice- "Nordiske OrganisasjonsStudier". Research. He conducted several studies about the President. He is also President of the ISORECEA - situation of the family in Germany on behalf of the International Study of Religion in Central and Eastern Carlo Ruzza (Italy) (2nd term) German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs. Latest Europe Association, and Vice-President of the ISA Professor Carlo Ruzza (MA SUNY, PhD Harvard) publication: Value of marriage, Zeitschrift für Soziologie RC22. He was president of the Local Committee for the teaches migration studies and ethnic relations in the 36, 2, 2007. International Society for the Sociology of Religion 28th Sociology Department at Trento University - Italy. He Conference (Zagreb, July 2005). He is currently has previously taught at the University of Essex and at Pekka Sulkunen (Finland) involved in five scientific projects: Welfare and Values in Europe (EU FP6 project), REVACERN (EU FP6 the University of Surrey and was a Jean Monnet fellow Pekka Sulkunen is professor of sociology, University of project), Religion and Churches in an Enlarged Europe, at the European Institute in Florence. He has written on Helsinki, and docent at the Universities of Helsinki and Europe and social movements, especially the peace, European Value Survey, and Indicators of Social Jyväskylä, Finland. He is member of the Finnish Cohesion and Development of the Croatian Social environmental and ethnonationalist movements, and on Academy of Science and Letters, and has received the EU-level public-interest associations. His publications Model. Statutes of the European Sociological Association Proposed Changes of the ESA Statutes The current ESA Statutes were approved by the General Assembly in Helsinki (2001) and revised in Torun (2005). The full text of the current Statutes are available on the ESA website.
This Executive Committee has been concerned with two changes in the Statutes. The first relates to the ex- aequo voting which occurred in the last elections in Torun. The second deals with the difficulty to find as many candidates as currently required by our Statutes, as pointed out by the chairs of the previous and the current Nominations Committees. The following proposal for the change of Statutes will be proposed to the General Assembly meeting in Glasgow.
Proposed changes: The Executive Committee has also discussed the Article 13 - reduction of the number of candidates need for a stronger continuity in the work for the for ESA nominations Association. The general Assembly is invited to It is proposed to rephrase the last sentence as "It discuss in Glasgow possible ways for approaching this proposes a slate of 24-30 candidates for the Executive goal; the next Executive elected in Glasgow will have Committee and 2-4 candidates for the presidency, half to elaborate the Assembly's suggestions in order to of them…" find out a formulation to be proposed to the following General Assembly. Article 14 - addition of ex-aequo It is proposed to add at the end the following sentence: "In case of the highest number of votes for the Presidency being tied equally, there shall be a new vote within the General Assembly in order to decide between these two candidates. In case of a tie for a position on the Executive Committee, all tied candidates would become Executive members."
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President: Catherine Delcroix: E-mail: [email protected] Giovanna Procacci: Teacher of sociology, Université de Professor of Sociology, University of Milan, Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines , Valerij Mansurov: Faculty of Political Sciences, Department Sevres, France. Deputy Director, Institute of Sociology, of Social and Political Studies, Milan, Italy E-mail: [email protected] Moscow, Russia E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Tuula Gordon: Executive Committee members in Fellow of the Helsinki Collegium for Elianne Riska: alphabetical order: Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki, Professor of sociology, Swedish School of Pamela Abbott: Finland. Social Science, University of Helsinki, Director of the Graduate Centre and the E-mail: [email protected] Finland Centre for Equality and Diversity, Glasgow E-mail: [email protected] Caledonian University, United Kingdom. Tommi Hoikkala: E-mail: [email protected] Docent, Research director, Finnish Youth Carlo Ruzza: Research Network, Finland Professor, University of Trento, Italy Sara Arber: E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Professor of sociology, Dept of Sociology, University of Surrey, United Kingdom. Sokratis Koniordos: Lennart Svensson: E-mail: [email protected] Associate Professor in Economic Professor of sociology, University of sociology, University of Crete, Crete Gothenburg, Sweden. Patrick Baert: E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] University senior lecturer in sociology, Selwyn College, Cambridge, United Dagmar Kutsar: Constanza Tobío: Kingdom Professor of social policy, University of Profesora titular of sociology, Universidad E-mail: [email protected] Tartu, Estonia Carlos III de Madrid, Spain E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Louis Chauvel: Professor of sociology, Sciences-Po Monika Kwiecinska-Zdrenka: Analia Torres: University, Paris, France Sociology teacher and researcher, Professor of Sociology, ISCTE, Lisbon, E-mail: [email protected] Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Portugal Poland E-mail: [email protected] Communicate with the ESA
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President: Vicepresident for publications: represents ESA and chairs the executive Patrick Baert Giovanna Procacci Vicepresident for conference programme: Treasurer: Sara Arber presents budget and financial report, takes financial decisions Webmaster: Lennart Svensson Rene Bekkers
General Secretary: Secretary: responsible for records, general overview of helps the executive, updates members list, secretariat, relations to members cooperates with LOC secretariat Louis Chauvel Gisele Tchinda
Vicepresident for Research Networks: Tuula Gordon Committees (members and attributions)
Finance Committee: Committee for Conference programme: Committee for post-graduate research: Membership fees, conference fees, other Relations between the executive and the Student workshop, summer school, ESA financial matters Glasgow LOC prize
Chair: Treasurer Chair: Sara Arber Chair: Catherine Delcroix President Pamela Abbott Tommi Hoikkala Tommi Hoikkala Sokratis Koniordos Committee for RNs: Valerji Mansurov Constanza Tobio All relations and communications with RNs Committee for communications: Committee for external relations: Chair: Tuula Gordon Website, newsletter, follow-up of Relations with national associations, ERC, Sara Arber conference preparation steps (with the ISA, other bodies Sokratis Koniordos committee for Conference programme) Valerji Mansurov Chair: Carlo Ruzza Chair: Dagmar Kutsar Daniel Bertaux Committee for publications: Rene Bekkers Dagmar Kutsar Journal (with ES editorial board), book- Catherine Delcroix Elianne Riska series, relations with publisher Elianne Riska (editor of the newsletter, with Andreas Berger) Chair: Patrick Baert ESA Council of National Associations and Constanza Tobio the Nominations Committee Carlo Ruzza Analia Torres Chair: Daniel Bertaux. Become a member of the ESA
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