This special issue of International Sociology is planned in conjunction with the XV ISA World Congress to be held in Brisbane, Australia, July 7-13, 2002. It is aimed at promoting scholarship and research that emphasizes the centrality of gender in studying social change associated with the process of globalization. The overall theme is framed broadly enough to include a variety of critical issues, debates, and problems as well as transformative practices at the local, regional, national, and global levels. To analyze systematically and critically the emergent patterns of global structuration and process at the political, socioeconomic, and cultural levels and their impact on women and men in different historical times, societies, and cultures. To seek understanding of the intricate linkages among theory, research, and praxis by developing a transformative scholarship within sociology in the new millennium.
Topic is entirely open as long as it relates to the relationships between gender and globalization.
All papers submitted will undergo refereed reviews.