Contenidos:Introduction: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World / Markus S. Schulz -- Futures We Want: Walking Back the Cat, Positives, Negatives, Ambigious, Balance / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- What Kind of World Can Weather Climate Change? Some Philosophical and Sociological Challenges / Todd Gitlin -- The 'Open Society' and Its Contradictions: Towards a Critical Sociology of Global Inequalities / Stephan Lessenich -- Me san aba: The Africa We Want and an African-centred Approach to Knowledge Production / Akosua Adomako Ampofo -- Pueblos in Movement: Feminist and Indigenous Perspectives from Latin America / Nora Garita Bonilla -- Post-Islamist Democracy / Asef Bayat -- Relocalizing the National and Horizontalizing the Global / Saskia Sassen -- Social Movements: The Core of General Sociology Michel Wieviorka -- Epilogue / Alain Touraine