Research Committees

RC54 The Body in the Social Sciences

Objectives

To study the body as a subject in the social sciences.

Board 2023 - 2027

President	Dulce FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA, University of Brasilia, Brazil, dulce.filgueira@gmail.com
Vice-President	Monica MESQUITA, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal, mmbm@fct.unl.pt
Secretary	Somdatta MUKHERJEE, Independent Researcher, India, mukherjee.somdatta4@gmail.com
Treasurer	Leticia SILVA, State University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, leticia.rts@gmail.com
Board Members	Craig COOK, Woodstock School, India Victoria D'HERS, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Anabela PEREIRA, CIES-Iscte, and NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal Dietmar WETZEL, Universität Basel, Switzerland

Program Coordinators for 5th ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 are:
Dulce FILGUEIRA DE ALMEIDA, dulce.filgueira@gmail.com
Monica MESQUITA, mmbm@fct.unl.pt

Obituary Bianca Maria PIRANI (1946-2020), Founding President of RC54

Forthcoming Activities

Bodies, Arts, and Media: (Re)Configurations in the Digital Era

ISA RC14, RC37 & RC54 with AISLF
Maison de la Recherche, Paris, France
December 5-6, 2024
Abstracts: June 1, 2024

More information

Publications

The Borders of Integration: Empowered Bodies and Social Cohesion

Edited and introduced by Bianca Maria Pirani
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018

Embodiment and cultural differences

Edited and introduced by Bianca Maria Pirani and Thomas Spence Smith
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

Membership

Regular member: USD 50 for a 4-year period.
Discount member (students up to PhD and members residing in countries
classified in category B and C): USD 20 for a 4-year period
Life member (available only to ISA Life Members): USD 50
Institutional membership: USD 500 for a 4-year period

Interested in joining? Start your membership by visiting: https://members.isa-sociology.org/login