President
Camilo TAMAYO GOMEZ, The University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Vice-President Newsletter Editor
Kaan AGARTAN, Framingham State University, USA
Kaan Ağartan is Professor of Sociology at Framingham State University. He is the author of Gezi: The Making of a New Political Community in Turkey (Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2024), co-author (with Camilo Tamayo Gomez) of Reimagining Radical Democracy in the Global South: Emerging Paradigms from Colombia and Türkiye (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2025), and co-editor (with Ayşe Buğra) of Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-first Century: Market Economy as a Political Project (Palgrave, 2007). His authored and co-authored articles appeared in New Global Studies, Global Labour Journal, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Sociology Compass, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Journal of International Affairs, New Perspectives on Turkey, and Capital and Class. His current research focuses on the relationship between racial capitalism, social movements, and radical democracy.
Secretary
Natalia MIRANDA, Universidad Mayor, Chile
Natalia Miranda is an Assistant Professors at CISS (Health and Society Research Center) at Universidad Mayor (Chile) Natalia obtained her PhD at UC Louvain (Belgium). Her research interests are social movements, democracy, political sociology, and mixed-methods.
Newsletter Editor
Marian ORJUELA, Heidelberg University, Germany
Marian Orjuela is a PhD researcher at Heidelberg University (Germany). Her research approach is interdisciplinary and draws on the sociology of social inequalities, social movements studies, sociology of risk, gender studies, communication for social change and public health. Marian holds a master’s degree in Sociology with a specialisation in sociometry and network analysis from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences from the Universidad del Norte (Colombia), and additional training in science communication, human rights and public health from WHO, BIREME and PAHO. She has worked with entities such as UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund UNFPA, Save the Children, and the Colombian Ministry of Health and Social Protection. Marian is currently teaching assistant and coordinator of science communication and knowledge transfer at Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies. She is a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and the International Sociological Association (ISA) on the RC48 Board 2023-2027 as newsletter editor.
RC48 PhD Network Representative, Marmara University, Türkiye
Aliye Nur Kelesoglu is a PhD student at the University of Malaya, Malaysia, in the Department of International and Strategic Studies. Before pursuing her doctorate, Aliye completed a double major in sociology and political science at Ankara University in Turkey, followed by a Master’s degree at the University of Malaya. Her Master’s research focused on social capital concept through inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia. In addition to her studies, Aliye has published research papers on social capital and inter-ethnic relations. Aliye’s primary research interests are social movements, with a special emphasis on Islamic movements, far-right movements, rival social movements, as well as social and political identity, and social capital concept.
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Yvan Ysmael YONAHA, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Yvan Ysmael YONAHA is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Master of Arts in Philippine Studies (Major in Development Studies) degree from the University of the Philippines Diliman. His current research is on the labor movement of essential workers during the pandemic, seeking to understand the dynamics of power among nurses and platform delivery riders, their employers, and the state. He has published on topics related to the sociologies of religion, politics, ethnicity, and migration.
Board Members
Liana Maria DAHER, University of Catania, Italy
Liana M. Daher is a Full Professor in Sociology at the University of Catania (Italy), and Chair of the PhD program «Educational Processes, Theoretical-Transformational Models and Research Methods Applied to the Territory.» Her main research fields are social movements and collective behaviour, migration, and multicultural citizenship. She has taken part, both as principal investigator and member, to several national and European research projects. Currently, she serves as a scientific coordinator for the Horizon 2020 Project PARTICIPATION https://participation- in.eu/. She is past-president of the ISA RC48 (Social Movement, collective action, and social change) and Editor-in-chief of two book series, «Disembedding» by Aracne and «Sociological Challenges» by Mimesis International. Liana M. Daher has authored books, book chaptersand articles in Italian and international academic outlets. Among her last publications: «The Consequences of Social Movements. Methodological Links between Sociology and History», in Daher L.M. (ed.), Understanding Social Conflicts. The Relationship between Sociology and History (Mimesis International 2020); Azione collettiva. Teoria e ricerca empirica (FrancoAngeli 2021); Defusing Radicalisation through bottom-up Counter-Narratives Coming from Complex Organisations: Insights from an EU Comparative Research Project (Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione 2021 – DOI: 10.32049/RTSA.2021.4.04); Italian Citizenship Now! The 5W+1H of Second-Generation Activism (Migration Letters 2023 – https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v20i2.2200); (ed.) Democratic Protests and New Forms of CollectiveAction. When Disobedience is Social (Springer 2023).
Tova BENSKI, College of Management Academic Studies, Israel
Tova Benski is a senior lecturer emerita at the School of Behavioral Sciences, The College of Management –Academic Studies, Rishon Leziyon Israel. Her fields of academic interest and research include: gender, social movements, peace studies, and the sociology of emotions. She has been engaged in research on the Israeli women’ peace mobilizations since the late 1980s and has published extensively and presented many papers on these topics. She is the co-author of the book internet and emotions (Routledge 2013), and co-editor of Current Sociology special issue (2013). Her co-authored book Iraqi Jews in Israel won a prestigious academic prize in Israel. She served two terms as the president of RC 48 (2002-2007 and 2014-2018). Currently she is an elected member of the executive council (EC) of the ISA and member of the Board of RC 48, RC 36 and TG08 of the ISA.
Lauren LANGMAN, Loyola University of Chicago, USA
Lauren Langman, professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. He works in the tradition of the Frankfurt School especially relationships between culture, identity and politics/political social movements. He was the past President of Alienation Research and Theory, Research Committee 36, of the ISA as well as past president of the Marxist section of the American Sociological Association. Recent publications deal with globalization, alienation, global justice movements as well as right wing populism, nationalism and national character. His most recent books include Trauma Promise and Millennium: The Evolution of Alienation, with Devorah Kalek in. Latest books are God, Guns, Gold and Glory, with George Lundskow and Inequality in the 21st Century/, Brill, with David Smith. The next book is Mobilizing for Dignity, Routledge with Tova Benski to be followed by Identity and Hegemony, that looks at how hegemony sustains elite class domination while counter hegemonic mobilizations by the «people» resist and contest domination.
Shamsher SINGH, FLAME University, India
Shamsher Singh teaches Sociology at FLAME University, Pune, India. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Centre for Management in Agriculture (CMA), IIM, Ahmedabad. He has been involved in carrying out village studies to understand the agrarian relation and conditions across different states in India. He has academic and research interests around the broad themes of – agrarian relations; agrarian politics and mobilisation; class and social movements; quality of life; labour and migration and digital archiving.
He has curated the People’s Archive of Farmers’ Protests which is a documentation of the one of the longest and united farmers’ mobilisations that took place in the year 2020-21 against the three-farm laws in India. The archive has two objectives, firstly, to create a repository of the events and developments that took place during the course of the movement to develop an understanding of the progression, nature and character of the movement. Secondly, to make this information available in the public domain for creating scholarship on the agrarian issues and rural mobilisations. The archive website can be accessed at: pafp.in
Sandra RIOS OYOLA, University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands
Dr. Sandra Rios Oyola is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University College Roosevelt (UCR). Her research focuses on the social impacts and consequences of conflict. Specifically, she investigates how communities actively participate in building peace and the implementation of transitional justice measures, such as memorialization, exhumations, and reparations.
Dr. Rios Oyola has published extensively on these subjects and has also explored the broader connection between religion, social memory, and conflict. She obtained a PhD in Sociology from the University of Aberdeen (UK) and authored the book ‘Religion, Social Memory and Conflict. The Massacre of Bojayá in Colombia’ (Palgrave MacMillan 2015). She co-edited the volume ‘Time and Temporality in Transitional and Post-Conflict Societies’ (Routledge 2018).
Eloy RIVAS-SÁNCHEZ, Athabasca University, Canada
Eloy Rivas-Sánchez is assistant professor of Sociology in the Center for Social Sciences at Athabasca University (Alberta, Canada). He holds a PhD in Sociology with a specialization in Political Economy from Carleton University (Ontario, Canada), where he is also appointed as adjunct research professor.
Rivas-Sánchez has received training both as academic and community organizer. As an academic, his ongoing research, teaching and publications focus on precarious migrant labour and health, migrant grassroots activism, global citizenship, and transformative education. In that capacity, he serves in several scientific/academic boards and committees in Canada and around the globe, such as the Canadian Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association and the UNESCO Chair on Democracy, Global Citizenship and Transformative Education.
Natalia MAYSTOROVICH, The University of South Wales, Australia
Natalia Maystorovich Chulio, a criminologist and socio-legal scholar, holds a Doctor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Socio-Legal Studies (Hons) from the University of Sydney, along with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of NSW. Her research interests encompass various facets of humanitarian and human rights law, transitional justice, and the archaeological recovery of mass graves. Her commitment to understanding the experiences of survivors of political violence is reflected in her use of ethnographic research, employing a symbolic interactionist lens to gain profound insights into their narratives. Since 2012, she has collaborated closely with the Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (ARMH – Association for the Recovery of Historic Memory), shedding light on the challenges faced by survivors seeking justice for victims of Enforced Disappearance. Her dedication to the recovery of historical memory has raised awareness of this critical issue. Since completing her doctoral research she has contributed to the Australian Research Council funded study;Understanding Society: The Role of Sociology and Its Social Impact, led by Professor Fran Collyer. This research explores the history of Australian sociology and its practical application in public discourse, media, policy development, and legislation.
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