Relational Sociology and Social Transformation

Diferencia(s) Revisita de Teoría Social Contemporánea

Call for Papers: Relational Sociology and Social Transformation

We invite the submission of original contributions devoted to relational sociology and to the work it does for emancipatory praxis, including decolonial, pluriversal, anticapitalist, feminist, antiracist, and ecological transformation, and the epistemic challenges such transformations pose to traditional substantialist or co-determinist sociology.

The aim of this call is to foster an intertextual space in which relationist approaches to the social may give rise to rigorous and innovative forms of conceptual and empirical inquiry, as well as concrete research praxis, that seek to transform and decolonize the discipline and to support emancipatory efforts for the human and more-than-human relationalities in late capitalism. In keeping with this emancipatory ambition, we are particularly interested in contributions that explore how relational perspectives make it possible to reconfigure social processes, actors, institutions, conflicts, and forms of collective life beyond substantialist, dualist, individualist, or anthropocentric approaches.

We welcome academic papers addressing, among other possible topics:

- conceptual articulations between emancipatory relational approaches and contemporary social theory;

- new theoretical perspectives in emancipatory relational sociology, including analyses that foreground the enduring structuring role of coloniality, and their relevance for a sociology that understands itself as enmeshed with/in the more-than-human;

- dialogues and debates between relational sociology and other non-substantialist theoretical perspectives;

- methodological implications of relational thinking;

- relational praxis, including case studies of social movements, collective actions, and alternative modes of living that embody transformative and decolonial relationalities;

- contributions from philosophy, social theory, activism, and the human and more-than-human sciences to the decolonization of relational approaches.

Submissions will be accepted in Spanish, Portuguese, English, and French.

Deadline for submissions: May 31, 2027.
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