Recognising the impact of actually existing capitalism on working-class women is vital if we want to understand where radical struggles will emerge and how they can spark a broader movement for ecosocialism.

Iepke M. Rijcken, doctoral researcher at Department of Sociology and Human Geography | Division of Sociology has been awarded the prestigious 2025 ÖAW Dissertation Award for Research on Migration for her ongoing dissertation, “Conviviality and Infrastructures of Mobility: Cross-Border Commuting in the Polish-German Border Region.”

The expanding BRICS bloc – Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa – has fueled hopes for a “multipolar world order.” Yet its economies lack an emancipatory vision. Social movements from below instead call for an “anti-polar” internationalism that rejects both imperialist unipolarity and subimperialist multipolarity, challenging.