Introduction

Subjectivity (previously International Journal of Critical Psychology) 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.

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.

Forthcoming Articles

Subjectivity will publish for the first time in May 2008. We are delighted to announce papers for the first two issues from some of the most renowned names in the field:

Patricia Clough: (De)coding the subject-in-affect
Vicianne Despret: Becoming subjectivity in a human-animal world
Lynne Layton: What divides the subject? Psychoanalytic reflections on subjectivity, subjection and resistance
Andrew Metcalfe & Ann Game: From the de-centred subject to relationality
Annemarie Mol: I eat an apple. On theorising subjectivities
Jackie Orr: 'Ceci n'est pas un trauma' (Becoming-pharmaceutical)
Steve Pile: Where is the subject? Place, space and subjectivity
Isabelle Stengers: Experimenting with refrains. Subjectivity and the challenge of escaping modern dualism
Paul Stenner: A.N. Whitehead and subjectivity
Couze Venn: Postcolonial subjectivity in the age of global neoliberalism
Margie Wetherell: Subjectivity or psycho-discursive practices? Investigating complex intersectional identities

Subjectivity Conference 2008

Call for Papers - Subjectivity: International Conference in Critical Psychology, Cultural Studies and Social Theory

27–29 June 2008

School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK

http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/socsi/subjectivity

This conference explores shifting conceptualisations of subjectivity in contemporary culture, politics, social science and theory. Although subjectivity is a key analytic term in fields as diverse as critical psychology, postcolonial studies, film theory, gender studies, social theory, geography, anthropology and cultural studies, it is rarely discussed in its own right. The conference attempts to explore subjectivity as a locus of social change, to rethink possibilities for everyday social interventions, to explore how subjectivities are produced and how emerging subjectivities remake our social worlds. We are interested in proposals for papers and symposia whose scope falls within or between one of the following areas:

• Embodiment, affect, materiality
• New political subjectivities/new social movements
• Redistributing the psychological

Please send a 200 word proposal to subjectivity@cardiff.ac.uk by 31 January 2008

Notification: 1 April 2008 (please contact us if you are in need of an earlier notification)

Access the call for papers in full. [PDF, 67k]

International Journal of Critical Psychology - issue 21

If you wish to purchase a copy of the last issue of the journal under its previous publishers (issue 21), you can do this by sending a cheque for £11.99 (£9.99 + £2 postage) made out to 'Lawrence and Wishart' at 99a Wallis Road, London, E9 5LN. Queries should be addressed to Lawrence and Wishart at info@lwbooks.co.uk or on 020 8533 2506.

Issue 21 of IJCP is a special issue on affect and feeling edited by L. Blackman and J. Cromby, including articles by Lisa Blackman, Jan Campbell, John Cromby, Stephen Frosh, John Shotter, Gavin Sullivan and Jane Ussher.