Wartime Sociology

Matteo Bortolini; Elena  Esposito; Flaminio Squazzoni; David Stark

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/14895

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Matteo Bortolini Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2532-9334

Matteo Bortolini teaches sociology at the University of Padua (Italy). His research focuses on ideas, intellectuals, the production of expert knowledge, the history of the social sciences, and cultural sociology. Among his latest publications are Italian Sociology, 1945-2010 (written with Andrea Cossu, Palgrave, 2017) and A Joyfully Serious Man. The Life of Robert Bellah (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Elena Esposito Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Bologna (Italy); Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University (Germany) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3075-292X

Elena Esposito is Professor of Sociology at the Bielefeld University (Germany) and at the University of Bologna (Italy). Her current research focuses on a sociology of algorithms. Her project The Future of Prediction: The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing is supported by a five-year grant from the European Research Council.
Flaminio Squazzoni Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6503-6077

Flaminio Squazzoni is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan (Italy), where he leads the Behave Lab, a centre for research and training in behavioural sociology.
David Stark Department of Sociology, Columbia University (United States); Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodology, University of Warwick (United Kingdom) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2435-9619

David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University (USA) where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. He is also Professor of Social Science at the University of Warwick (United Kingdom). His recent publications include The Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life (Oxford University Press, 2020), "Moments of Identity: The Dynamics of Artist, Persona, and Audience in Electronic Music," (Theory & Society, 2021), and "Racial Attention Deficit," (Science Advances, 2021).

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/14895

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war, sociological imagination, semantics, future, belief/disbelief

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How can sociologists observe a war "in the making"? In issuing an "instant call for papers," the editors of Sociologica suggest three lines of research: the semantics and the symbolic representation of war (of any war, but especially of this war); how political, military, economic, and social options and alternatives enter and exit the realm of the possible in connection with shifts in war semantics; how our understanding of "the day after," that is of the future after the war is over, binds and even determines decisions in the present.

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