The changing international order is often understood through polarity, power transitions, great-power competition, and shifting capabilities. While valuable, these perspectives can obscure how global politics is produced, experienced, and contested through spatial and temporal configurations.
Bringing International Political Sociology into dialogue with debates on emerging global orders, this panel examines how spatial scales, historical legacies, political presents, imagined futures, and narratives of crisis make order and disorder intelligible. It treats space and time not as neutral settings but as constitutive of political order, shaping its boundaries, hierarchies, rhythms, and horizons.
The panel welcomes theoretically innovative and empirically grounded contributions from critical, poststructuralist, postcolonial, decolonial, feminist, practice-oriented, sociological, and related perspectives. It particularly encourages work illuminating forms of spatial differentiation, temporal layering, historical sedimentation, and political contestation that conventional categories such as unipolarity, bipolarity, and multipolarity cannot adequately capture.
Suggested Topics:
Rethinking international order through spatial and temporal relations.
International Political Sociology and the study of new global orders.
Spatiality, scale, borders, regions, and the production of international order.
Temporality, historical legacies, political presents, and imagined futures in global politics.
Multiple and overlapping temporalities of global and regional orders.
The international as a spatial and temporal configuration rather than a fixed system.
Contesting dominant spatialities and temporalities of international order: postcolonial and decolonial perspectives.
Chronopolitics, geopolitics, and the politics of ordering global space and time.
Global, regional, transnational, and local orders: relations across scales.
Crisis, rupture, transition, and the narratives through which international orders are transformed.
Indigenous, subaltern, feminist, and other situated understandings of space, time, and order.
Future imaginaries and the politics of anticipation in the making of global orders.
Beyond polarity: fragmentation, plurality, layering, and heterogeneity in international order.
Methodological and conceptual challenges in studying spatially and temporally differentiated orders.
