Welcome to Subjectivity
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.
Free online sample
2009 Issues 26 - 29
Four issues per year
ISSN: 1755-6341
EISSN: 1755-635X
Editors:
Lisa Blackman
John Cromby
Derek Hook
Dimitris Papadopoulos
Valerie Walkerdine
Introduction
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.
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.
News
Subjectivity International Conference special issue
The April 2009 issue of Subjectivity has now published. This special issue features articles originally presented at the Subjectivity International Conference (Cardiff, 27-29 June 2008). Contributors include Couze Venn, Janet Campbell, Peter Redman, William Housley and Steven Angelides. Click here to read the abstracts free of charge. Click here to subscribe and read the whole issue.
Forthcoming Special Issues
- Feminist Science and Technology Studies
Issue 28, September 2009, ed. Wenda Bauchspies and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa - Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Political Subjectivities
Issue 29, December 2009, ed. Rutvica Andrijasevic and Bridget Anderson
Book Reviews
Subjectivity invites the submission of book reviews
