Mapping Political Sociology Ambiguities and Complexities for Unpredictable Futures

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Mapping Political Sociology. Ambiguities and Complexities for Unpredictable Futures

The Future and Political Sociology.

Pauline Cullen, Alberta Giorgi

Part 1 – Political Sociology frameworks and concepts : revision and recuperation

1. Exploring Desire as a Political Concept: A Queer-feminist Ride

Stefanie Claudine Boulila

1. Quilting the movement. A metaphor for engaging with social movement hybridity

elena pavan

1. A Political Sociology of Care: Care Imaginaries and Care Pantomimes

Pauline Cullen

1. Feminism and the Study of Institutions: Gendering the Analysis of Institutions from the Inside-Out

Cherry Miller

1. Rethinking the Far Right Through a Social Movement Lens

Manuela Caiani

1. Why and how territory in political sociology

Oscar Mazzoleni

1. Charisma and Charismatic Leadership in Contemporary Democracies

Lorenzo Viviani

Part 2 – Political Sociology speaks to the future: crises old and new

1. Politically Incorrect Humour in the Manosphere: A Pathway to Anti-Genderism?

Hande Eslen-Ziya

1. The Political Sociology of Post-Truth Politics

Hans-Jörg Trenz

1. The political sociology of emotions in the age of affective machines

Rosa M. Sanchez Salgado

1. Reflections on Video Games in Far-Right Studies and Meaning-Making in Technocultural Worlds.

Briar Dickey

1. Democratic backsliding in the EU: causes and means of diffusion

Carlo Ruzza

1. In/visibilities in the political sociology of religion: epistemic responsibilities

Alberta Giorgi

1. Rethinking power and privilege in political sociology. Averse co-production in studying far-right actors

Elżbieta Korolczuk

Part 3 – Political sociologists: intellectual pathways and conceptual epiphanies

1. Journeying with Human Rights

Michele Grigolo

1. Understanding Politics with the Sociology of Knowledge: from optimistic beginnings to austerity and digitalised de-democratisation

Rosalind Cavaghan

1. Feminist political economy: A companion on a journey from gender equality policy to economic governance

Anna Elomäki

1. Abolitionist Futures of Intersectionality

Anna Carastathis

1. Political sociology, collective action, and the roots of transformative environmental governance

Louisa Parks

A political sociology of and for the future.

Pauline Cullen, Alberta Giorgi

Biography

Pauline Cullen is Professor in Sociology at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland, researching civil society and feminist analysis of inequalities in representation and care. Her recent book is Pathways to Political Candidacy for Minoritised Women in Ireland (2025).  

Alberta Giorgi is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Her work explores boundaries and classifications, at the intersection of politics, gender, religion, science. Recent publications include (Un)silencing Academia in Times of Epistemic Conflicts (Routledge, 2026, with with H. Eslen-Ziya) and The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics in Europe (2026, with E. Fokas).