In the Social Sciences, change has been regarded as the one constant phenomenon underpinning social processes. The speed, depth, and breadth by which change unfolds in recent time, however, have been unsettling chains of relations at a planetary scale and across spheres of living, challenging the social sciences to act, think, and offer new paradigms of understanding.

From the halls of power to the mushrooms at the ends of the Earth, conditions are rapidly shifting in ways that disrupt, if not, upend lifeways, skill sets, production and supply networks, knowledge systems, hierarchies, ideological orders, spatial formations, and ecological balance. Meteoric advances in smart technologies, widespread transnational urbanization, hyper financial flows, wealth reconcentration, soaring consumption demands, mobility and migration, and unfettered growth targets are calling for a multitude of social science engagements.
 

In pursuit of growth, human and environmental resources are pushed to the limits triggering a web of socio-ecological crises spanning from climate change, polluted ecosystems to unchartered levels of emergencies. The post-pandemic world coupled with the widening gulf of inequality in an altered biosphere poses new challenges to communities as well as the means by which to think about them scientifically.
 

Transdisciplinary interconnections of knowledge and deep time human experience and responses to changing ecosystems, biospheres, and geographies offer an analysis of social process and shifting thinking in an era of global, translocal disruption and alteration. Doing so will allow for a better exploration of measures and improvements, and to identify workable solutions for this time of disruptions and altered worlds. Thus, helping to bring societies closer through sophisticated means of forging solidarities, technological innovations, and trading connections, but also unravel the forces that divide humanity along economic, political, social, racial, ethnic, religious, and economic lines.
 

The social sciences and associated communities of practice are called upon to better understand the causes, processes, undercurrents, and consequences of global crises and their impact on the human condition most especially in, on, and across the localities of the Global South.

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