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2019, issue 43, Ricca Edmondson and Eeva Luhtakallio: At the Crossroads of the Contemporary – The ESA journal EJCPS provides a space for thought and debate for addressing societal phenomena at the multiple intersections of culture and politics. It covers the endless intertwinements and coincidences of the cultural and the political that embrace the whole scope of sociology. These are treated in both competing and complementary ways in classical and contemporary sources.

2019, issue 43, Kazuo Seiyama: Since the beginning of Japanese sociology, about 150 years ago, the main problem has been, “What is modernity, and how can Japanese society become a modern society?”. With this problem in mind, Japanese sociologists have passionately studied the theoretical and empirical exploration of modernity in Europe and the United States, absorbing many of them. The way of approaching this problem, among Japanese sociologists, was historically divided into two.

2019, issue 43, Chih-Jou Jay Chen: Looking back at the past 50 years, we can see that the development of Taiwanese sociology has been affected by two contextual factors. On the one hand, under the influence of globalisation, Taiwan’s sociology has been making continuous progress with regard to professionalisation and academicisation; on the other hand, inspired by Taiwan’s unique political and economic context, Taiwan’s sociological community has been increasingly engaged with its society.

2019, issue 43, Katrin Tiidenberg: Calls for public facing scholarship (partially overlapping with the categories of ‘networked participatory scholarship’ or ‘open scholarship’) are increasingly common. On the one hand, it makes sense – after all, who do we do research for if not the publics? Funding institutions – presumably relying on this very logic – have made popular engagement and broad dissemination a mandatory part of the research process. On the other hand, not everyone wants to, or is capable of inhabiting the limelight.

2019, issue 43, Nina Perger: The presence and increasing plurality of gender and sexual identities have been increasingly acknowledged in the social sciences, although less attention is still being paid to those identities that transcend the socially dominant sexual and gender binarism.

2019, issue 43, Bernd Bonfert: Since 2011, leftist activism against austerity-based crisis management in Europe has simultaneously become diversified along national and political lines, while also establishing a range of new transnational coalitions. The thesis investigates this ambiguous development by providing a Historical Materialist analysis of the transnational cooperation among activists.

2019, issue 43, Kristian Berg Harpviken and Magnus Heie: The Norwegian Sociological Association (NSA) – Norsk sosiologforening in Norwegian – is a platform for collaboration among sociologists in Norway. Founded in 1949, the NSA preceded the institutionalisation of sociology by one year (with the first university department established in Oslo in 1950) yet followed a century’s evolution of sociological research (with theology-trained Eilert Sundt as the pioneer and represented in our logo). The NSA is organised as a national association with a number of local branches.