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

Extra navigation

4 July 2009

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