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CfA Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments - ISA Forum of Sociology 2025

  • 1.  CfA Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments - ISA Forum of Sociology 2025

    Posted 10-03-2024 17:09

    11 days left to submit your abstract!

    Call for Abstracts

    ISA Forum of Sociology

    "Ocean and Society: Organizational and Technological Developments"

    Rabat, Morocco, July 6-11, 2025

    International Sociological Association

    Jointly organized by the ISA Research Committees:
    RC02 "Economy and Society"
    RC17 "Sociology of Organizations"
    RC23 "Sociology of Science and Technology"
    RC24 "Environment and Society"

    Organizers:
    Kurt Rachlitz, Michael Grothe-Hammer, & Jennifer Leigh Bailey
    (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway)

    Submission deadline for abstracts (max. 300 words): October 15, 2024

    In this panel, we want to look at the relationship between organization, technology and society as it unfolds when it comes to the ocean. The ocean is not only the subject of organizational and technological developments, but is also increasingly the subject of scientific research, political and legal regulation, economic exploitation, and ecological concerns.

    We ask questions like these:

    • How is the ocean organized? What kind of organizations play a role? How have these organizations developed historically? What logics do these organizations follow?
    • How is the ocean being technologized? What technological developments in recent decades have contributed to new possibilities of access and how are these developments linked to scientific findings, but also to economic interests and political calculations?
    • How has scientific development in particular affected society's approach to the ocean? To what extent is "our" access to the ocean not only technologically but also scientifically mediated in a very specific way?
    • To what extent is the ocean subject to a specific type of regulation and how has this developed in recent decades?
    • Which economic sectors are becoming increasingly important today regarding the ocean and which others may be displaced or must adapt? What is the significance of narratives such as the blue economy?
    • To what extent do these developments go hand in hand with ecological concerns?

    The panel is open to a very broad spectrum of works. The only condition is that they have something to do with the ocean – this mostly forgotten phenomenon in sociology.

    Note that the session might have multiple parts depending on the number of accepted presentations. Authors are also welcome to submit other abstracts to other sessions. As is customary at the ISA conferences there is no full paper requirement.

    For more information about the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, please visit:
    https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025

    Deadline for submission of abstracts (max. 300 words) is October 15, 2024

    For abstract submission please visit:
    https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/forum/rabat-2025/5th-isa-forum-call-for-abstracts

    If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact the session organizers.

    Hope to see you in Rabat!

    Kurt Rachlitz, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Jennifer Leigh Bailey



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    Michael Grothe-Hammer
    Associate Professor
    Norwegian University of Science and Technology
    Trondheim
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