Introduction

CHANGE TO ISSUE NUMBERING FROM 2010

In previous years, Subjectivity has numbered each issue individually, with the 2009 volume comprising issues 26-29. From 2010, journal issues will be identified by both a volume and an issue number. 2010 will be volume 3 (issues 1-4), following the journal's re-launch in 2008.

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 (issue 22, April 2008) is available free online, and includes articles by Annemarie Mol, Isabelle Stengers, Lynne Layton, Margaret Wetherell, Nigel Thrift, Paul Stenner and Thomas Csordas.

Latest Issue

Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Political Subjectivities
Issue 29, December 2009, ed. Rutvica Andrijasevic and Bridget Anderson

Forthcoming Special Issues

• Žižek and Political Subjectivity, Issue 3.1, April 2010, ed. Derek Hook and Calum Neill. Featuring papers by Todd McGowan, Fabio Vighi and Heiko Feldner, Matthew Sharpe and Adrian Johnston, followed by Žižek’s own response to these papers. More information is available here.
• Politics and the Unconscious, Issue 3.3, September 2009, ed. Jason Glynos and Yannis Stavrakakis.

Book Reviews

Subjectivity invites the submission of book reviews