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The (In)Visibilization Society
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 308
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Today, we are living in a new social order: the (in)visibilization society. How and why is this society making so many human beings and the environment invisible, while simultaneously developing and expanding the practices, means, and structures to make them supposedly more "visible"? And what future(s) await(s) this society? This book offers a new sociological analysis of contemporary societies by exploring some of their core contradictions and resulting socio-ecological (dis)illusions and crises, together with the related conflicts between the (in)visible — now taking place within and between analog and digital spaces.
Ana Cárdenas Tomažič. Ph.D. (2009) FU Berlin; alumna of the Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). She is Professor of Sociology and member of the scientific committee in the "Trans(in)disciplinarities" postdoc program run jointly by Unitierra (Colombia) and the Ph.D. program in Social Sciences of Universidad Nacional de San Juan (Argentina). This postdoc program is institutionally embedded within the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO, Argentina) and the Argentinean Sociological Association (AAS). Until recently, she served as Professor of Sociology at the IfS/Goethe University and as an elected member of the DGS "Sociology as a Vocation" Commission (2023-2025).
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1 The Politics of Social (In)Visibilization
2 Dimensions of the (In)Visibilization Society
1 The Neoliberal Foundations of the (In)Visibilization Society
2 Global Cities and the Politics of Social (In)Visibilization
3 Prisons, Incarceration, and Social (In)Visibilization
4 The (In)Visibilization of Migration
3 The Rise of the (In)Visibilization Society
1 Socio-digital Alienation
2 Socio-digital Liberation
4 Postscript: (Dis)Illusions and the Future of the (In)Visibilization Society
References
Index
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
1 The Politics of Social (In)Visibilization
2 Dimensions of the (In)Visibilization Society
1 The Neoliberal Foundations of the (In)Visibilization Society
2 Global Cities and the Politics of Social (In)Visibilization
3 Prisons, Incarceration, and Social (In)Visibilization
4 The (In)Visibilization of Migration
3 The Rise of the (In)Visibilization Society
1 Socio-digital Alienation
2 Socio-digital Liberation
4 Postscript: (Dis)Illusions and the Future of the (In)Visibilization Society
References
Index
This book is especially relevant to scholars interested in Social Theory, Capitalism Studies, Globalization Studies, Social Inequality Studies, and Intersectional Studies, as well as Social Movement Studies, Media Studies, Critical Prison Studies, Migration Studies, and Urban Studies. Also, to all those who are interested in understanding current societies.