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We are happy to announce that we have launched our Twitter and Facebook accounts!

In order to maintain closer contact with members of RC09 and scholars interested in social transformations and sociology of development around the world, we are in the social media world!

Our “presence” in social media will help us to reach more people and communicate better about upcoming events and other activities related to the committee and ISA, as well as to engage people in the reflection about pressing issues on the topics of RC09 interest.

Click “Follow” and “Like” to keep you posted about activities, events and opportunities related to social transformations and sociology of development!

Elected: RC09 Board 2018-2022

The RC09 Executive Board 2018-2022 has been elected!

We congratulate Habibul Khondker and Ulrike Schuerkens who continue to be the RC09 Co-Presidents! Rc09 also has a new Secretary/Treasurer Brian Dill and a larger team of website and newsletter editors – Ilona Wysmulek, Almendra Orbegoso, and Devparna N. Roy – honored and excited to serve the RC09 community of scholars! The newly elected board members are Samuel Cohn, Joshua Kjerulf Dubrow, Tamara Heran Cubillos, Hasan Mahmud, Dieter Neubert and Victor Roudometof.

Looking forward to a fruitful and exciting 4-year period filled with new activities!

Read more about the RC09 Executive Board, its members or join the network.

RC09 Newsletter – spring/summer 2018

We are pleased to publish our Spring/Summer 2018 Newsletter, prepared by the RC09 newsletter editor Zophia Edwards.

This edition contains:

– Remarks from the RC09 Co-Presidents

– Recent RC09 Member Publications

– Book Review

– RC09 Members’ Ongoing Projects and other news

We especially thank our members who contributed to this edition.

Final Program for the ISA Congress 2018 in Toronto – ONLINE

We are pleased to share with you the online program for the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, which will be held in Toronto, Canada this summer – July 15-21, 2018! You can browse the Program by day, by groups and by person index or you may search for particular presentations by typing key words, an author’s name, or the title. Here is the direct link to the scheduling details of the RC09 sessions and oral presentations.

RC09 sessions – ISA World Congress of Sociology – Online Program

Please note that the RC09 Business meeting will be held on Tuesday, 17 July 2018: 17:30-19:20. Location: 104D (MTCC NORTH BUILDING).

Learn More about the RC09 Members

As the Toronto 2018 ISA Congress is approaching, you may want to learn more about its participants. In our last Newsletter issue, we have added a new section – the information about the current research projects and grants of the RC09 members. You can also find references (and sometimes full texts) of the recently published and forthcoming RC09 member publications on this website or in our RC09 Newsletter issues. For the curious ones, we encourage you to see (or remind yourself) the results of a very interesting initiative – the RC09 members’ survey 2016 – prepared by Josh Dubrow. The main goal of this survey is to understand the research interests of RC09 members, their daily life of scholars and attitudes toward the role of ISA RC09 in their lives.

The call for content for the next issue of our Newsletter will be announced soon. Stay tuned!

ISA Congress 2018 – Registration Open

The registration for the XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology is now open. Do not miss the date! In order to be included in the program, the ISA congress participants must pay a full registration fee before March 20, 2018. All ISA members benefit from a discount registration fee. If you plan to renew or acquire ISA membership, remember that the processing takes 2 to 3 days. Read more about the Congress registration fees and ISA membership.

RC09 Newsletter – New Issue!

It is our great pleasure to announce the new RC09 Newsletter – the first issue with the new editor Zophia Edwards, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Providence College. Here are couple words about the new issue from the editor:

[Our 2017 Newsletter] contains a special opening by RC 09 Co-President Ulrike Schuerkens, a provocative piece by co-President Habibul H. Khondker, information about the RC 09 sessions in the upcoming ISA World Congress in Toronto, and recent publications by RC 09 members. Special thanks to all who sent submissions.

RC09 Sessions at the ISA Congress 2018

The list of RC09 sessions at the ISA World Congress in Toronto 2018 is already available online. Current and diverse – the issues covered by seventeen (!) RC09 sessions open possibilities for many interesting individual presentations in the field of social transformations and development. The call for paper abstracts just opened, so there is still plenty of time to carefully read RC09 session abstracts, select the session most suitable for your research interests and think about individual presentations (see guidelines for presenters). The deadline for selecting a session and submitting paper abstracts is September 30, 2017.

Global Dialogue – The New Issue!

Publikacja2 — Global Dialogue Posts per Country, 2010-2017

The new issue of Global Dialogue – ISA open access magazine – is out! It is published in 17 languages and includes articles from sociologists all over the world. You will find here clashing views and visions of sociologists from Egypt, France, Indonesia, Israel, Kosovo, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, and United States. We invite you to read, comment and involve in a discussion – Global Dialogue is a thought-provoking forum for debate on social transformations, development and many other issues.

If you consider submitting your article for the next issue or you want to propose other languages, please write to globaldialogue.isa@gmail.com .

New Journal Announcement

The rard Regional Studies Association (RSA) is pleased to announce that the new journal: Area Development and Policy.

Area Development and Policy (ADP) aims to be a world-class journal publishing original academic research examining the multi-scalar and geographically differentiated relationships between economic and political organization, ways of life and work and their context, as they shape regions, cities, rural areas and their inter-relationships.

In three issues per year, Area Development and Policy, invites original academic research on issues relating to the Greater BRICS, and aims to publish research emerging from these countries as well from the developed world. To access the two first issues of the journal please go to the publisher’s website, Taylor and Francis. You can also read more about the journal in our RC09 newsletter.

We welcome submissions for this journal from RC09 members and non-members!