Introduction

Subjectivity is an exciting and innovative transdisciplinary journal in the social sciences. Re-launched by Palgrave Macmillan in 2008, it examines the socio-political, cultural, historical and material processes, dynamics and structures of human experience.

Fourth issue of Subjectivity now published!

The fourth issue of Subjectivity is now available. This issue features articles by Lynne Segal, Vikki Bell, Kaye Mitchell, Rosalind Gill and Nikolas Rose, while Stephen Frosh reviews Jacqueline Rose's The Last Resistance. Click here to read the abstracts free of charge. Click here to subscribe and read the whole issue.

First Issue of Subjectivity free online!

The first issue of Subjectivity is available free online, and includes articles by Annemarie Mol, Isabelle Stengers, Lynne Layton, Margaret Wetherell, Nigel Thrift, Paul Stenner and Thomas Csordas.

About the journal

Subjectivity has been an important concept for academic research as well as for intervening in social and political life since the 1960s and 1970s. The idea of subjectivity had a catalytic impact in changing the terms of the debate in the social sciences: in anthropology, geography, psychology, sociology, post colonial theory, gender studies, cultural and media studies, social theory as well as the humanities.

Subjectivity attempts to capture ongoing debates and activities and to foster a discourse on subjectivity which goes beyond traditional dichotomies between the various disciplines.

The journal aims at a re-prioritization of subjectivity as a primary category of social, cultural, psychological, historical and political analysis. It wishes to encourage a variety of transdisciplinary engagements with this topic in theory as well as empirical research, and, accordingly, to advance the potential of engagement with subjectivity/subjectivities as a locus of social change and a means of political intervention.