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This issue begins with an interview with the renowned feminist academic and activist Rita Segato. During the conversation, we discuss her contributions on issues of gender, violence and coloniality and how to enhance South-South and global dialogues on these issues. Here Segato also shares her views on contemporary topics, such as authoritarian setbacks and the internationalisation of the feminist movement. The ISA gains a special section in this issue. After 40 years of intense dedication to our association as its Executive Secretary, Izabela Barlinska retires. Five former presidents (Margaret Archer, Michel Wieviorka, Michael Burawoy, Margaret Abraham and Sari Hanafi) and the current one (Geoffrey Pleyers), recently elected in Melbourne, pay a well-deserved tribute to her. We also publish Pleyers’ installation speech at the XX World Congress of Sociology. The sad note is...

I hope you enjoy this issue of Global Dialogue, the second under my editorship with Carolina Vestena and Vitória Gonzalez. During my first few months as editor, I have initiated a wide-ranging discussion on the future of the magazine to reflect together on the changes needed to consolidate and expand it. New developments will be introduced from the first issue of 2024 and I encourage you to share your ideas and suggestions with us. This issue begins with an interview with leading scholar Sidney Tarrow, led by Angela Alonso and myself. We talk about the many facets and challenges of the relationship between social movements and political parties, such as, for example, how to think about them relationally, what the heuristic potential of the concept of movement parties is, how recent political events relate to new academic research agendas, or what some of the key...

It is my great pleasure to welcome you all to this first issue of 2023, the first of our new editorial team at Global Dialogue. At the end of 2022, I was thrilled to hear from Eloísa Martín, ISA Vice-President for Publications, about my appointment as the new editor. The previous editorial team, led by Brigitte Aulenbacher and Klaus Dörre, ensured a smooth transition. I wish to thank them and their assistant editors Raphael Deindl, Johanna Grubner, Walid Ibrahim and Christine Schickert for their support and fantastic work over the past years. Professors Aulenbacher and Dörre will remain involved, along with founding editor Michael Burawoy, as consulting editors. No doubt this will be crucial in matching the project’s ongoing history with the changes required. Our managing editor Lola Busuttil, who has been working with Global Dialogue...