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  1. CfP: On Poverty and Its Eradication

    …ies. For context, contributions on the classics of poverty and poverty relief are welcomed, not only the well-known foundational reasonings, estimates, and legislative debates but also neglected gems such as John Chrysostom’s fourth century estimate that ten percent of the great city of Antioch lived in poverty (and another ten percent in wealth) and the sixteenth century De Subventione Pauperum, written by Juan Luis Vives for the Senate of Bruges…

  2. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure. A Sociological Perspective

    …dition of the Research Topic will focus particularly on the challenges and complexities of industrial development in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. This Research Topic welcomes papers that will provide both theoretical and empirical findings. Potential issues include, but are not limited to: – Social and cultural aspects of technology transfer and global diffusion of groundbreaking technologies. – Supply chains and the global economy: threats an…

  3. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty. A Sociological Perspective

    …y in 2030. Against the backdrop of the growing climate crisis, significant efforts are therefore needed to bring the 2030 target within reach. This Research Topic will address the first Sustainable Development Goal from a sociology-specific perspective. It will enquire about the framing and elaboration of the goal, its adaptation to particular geographical contexts, stakeholder involvement in it, and influence and impact of social mobility and soc…

  4. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing. A Sociological Perspective

    …, immunization coverage, suicide rates, and reductions in the incidence of communicable diseases and mortality rates from non-communicable diseases. The pandemic threatens to reverse or stall much of this progress. As of June 2021, the global death toll from COVID-19 stood at 3.7 million, with manifold wider ramifications of the disease. Ninety per cent of countries are still reporting one or more disruptions to essential health services, and avai…

  5. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. A Sociological Perspective

    …on, emergency services, waste management, and water supply. – Studies that combine sustainable cities and communities with concepts such as the silver economy, longevity economy, social economy, circular economy, green economy, and sharing economy. Keywords: Sustainable cities and communities, Affordable housing, SDG11, Green infrastructures, Urban design, Climate-resilient infrastructures, Urban inclusion, Climate citizenship, Gentrification, Soc…

  6. CfP: Towards 2030: Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. A Sociological Perspective

    …ssues in the Global South such as closing labor-productivity gaps in low-income countries and ways to increase aid for trade support for developing countries. – The effects of lack of decent jobs, coupled with weak social insurance schemes and poverty among the workers (working poor and precarity). – Equality and inclusion at work during the COVID-19 pandemic, including challenges of employment in the informal economy. – Technological challenges f…

  7. OPEN ACCESS BOOK: Sense and Solidarity: Jholawala Economics for Everyone

    …public policy, with special reference to India. He is co-author (with Amartya Sen) of Hunger and Public Action (Oxford University Press, 1989) and An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Penguin, 2013). http://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198833468.pdfhttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/sense-and-solidarity-9780198833468?cc=us&lang=en&# https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sense-and-solidarity-9780198833…

  8. Sustainability and Human Rights: Ethical Dimensions of an Urban Agenda

    …y within Washington DC. The second panel looks at Sustainability–broadly defined to include community, human, and environmental dimensions–in Washington DC and its environs. See the attached program, including speakers. For the workshop, we ask that working “Northerners” contribute $5 to help defray the cost of the workshop. Students, not-working Northerners, and participants from the Global South, any spare change is appreciated but not necessa…

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