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.

First Issue of Subjectivity now published!

The first issue of Subjectivity is now available, and includes articles by Annemarie Mol, Isabelle Stengers, Lynne Layton, Margaret Wetherell, Nigel Thrift, Paul Stenner and Thomas Csordas. Click here for free access to all these articles.

Second Issue of Subjectivity now published!

The second issue of Subjectivity is now available, and includes articles by Vinciane Despret, Patricia Ticeneto Clough, Betty M. Bayer, Desmond Painter, Andrew Metcalfe and Ann Game, Steve Pile, Lili Hsieh, and Ian Burkitt. Click here to read the abstracts free of charge. Click here to subscribe and read the whole issue.

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.

Call for Papers

Special Issue of Subjectivity
Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Political Subjectivities

Guest editors: Dr. Rutvica Andrijasevic & Dr. Bridget Anderson, University of Oxford

Authors are invited to address the importance of interrogating the modes of subjectivity engendered by the conditions of transnational mobility as well as discussing the ways in which migrants’ practices of mobility reconfigure political space for rethinking of citizenship and sovereignty and for advancing a more nuanced analysis of present configuration of power and its global contestations.

Send expressions of interest with a short proposal for possible contributions to Rutvica.Andrijasevic@compas.ox.ac.uk by 30th September 2008.

Access the Call for Papers in full [PDF, 28k]

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.