Join us for our 96th Annual Meeting:

March 5-8, 2026

WASHINGTON, DC

Washington Marriott at Metro Center

Transformation & Repair: Worldmaking in Contexts

of Struggle and Constraint

Worldmaking is a capacious concept. Far from imagining Empire, sociological treatments of worldmaking are expansive, anchoring the building of new systems, new scaffolds of belonging, and new ways of being in everyday work and collective practices. Through worldmaking processes, new interpretations can gain footing that make alternate conditions of existence possible. It is a collective activity rooted in place and space, that enriches our collective life, wards against human vulnerability and despair, disrupts the flow of power, and pushes back against ‘big’ structures. The 96th annual Eastern Sociological Society meetings, to be held in Washington DC, a city that belongs to the people, will consider worldmaking as it emerges in contexts of struggle and constraint, as a complex of everyday doings that have the capacity to stem the tides of subjugation and anti-democratic mobilizations, upend harmful systems, challenge the cultural logics of domination, and make possible transformation and repair.

 

Washington Marriott at Metro Center, Washington D.C.

March 5-8, 2026

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