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about the journal
Established in 1980 Thesis Eleven is a truly international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal. Innovative and authoritative the journal produces articles, reviews and debate with a central focus on theories of society, culture, and politics and the understanding of modernity.
The purpose of this journal is to encourage the development of social theory in the broadest sense. We view social theory as both multidisciplinary and plural, reaching across social sciences and liberal arts (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, politics, geography, cultural studies and literature) and cultivating a diversity of critical theories of modernity across both the German and French senses of critical theory.
The identity of the journal, like its location, is multiple: European in the continental sense, but also transatlantic and colonial. The journal translates European social theory, mainstream and marginal, and it also takes theory from the margins of the world system to the centres.
Social theory progresses through substantive concerns as well as formal or textural endeavour; the journal therefore publishes theories, and theorists, surveys, critiques, debates and interpretations, but also papers to do with place, region, or problems in the world today, encouraging civilizational analysis and work on alternative modernities from fascism and communism to Japan and Southeast Asia. Marxist in origin, post-Marxist by necessity, the journal is vitally concerned with change as well as with tradition.
For contents of past issues of the journal, see the Sage website
notes for contributors
Full manuscript submission guidelines can be found here
editorial board:
Co-ordinating Editors:
Peter Beilharz Sichuan University
Trevor Hogan La Trobe University
Commissioning Editors:
Timothy Andrews La Trobe University
Rachel Busbridge Australian Catholic University
Alonso Casanueva Baptista La Trobe University
Eduardo De La Fuente James Cook University
Andrew Gilbert La Trobe University
Simon Marginson University College London
Julian J Potter La Trobe University
Ira Raja University of Delhi
Raul Sanchez Urribarri La Trobe University
Sian Supski Melbourne University
Review Editor:
Peter Beilharz Sichuan University
Production Assistant:
Julian J Potter
Media:
Timothy Andrews
Editorial Advisory Board:
Jeffrey Alexander Yale University
Dominique Bouchet University of Southern Denmark
Craig Calhoun London School of Economics
Luis David SJ Ateneo de Manila University
Gerard Delanty University of Sussex
Chamsy el-Ojeili Victoria University of Wellington
Austin Harrington University of Leeds
Axel Honneth University of Frankfurt
Martin Jay University of California, Berkeley
Hans Joas University of Erfurt
Joel Kahn La Trobe University
Krishan Kumar University of Virginia
Udaya Kumar University of Delhi
Fuyuki Kurasawa York University
Vassilis Lambropoulos University of Michigan
María Pía Lara Autonomous University of Mexico
John Lechte Macquarie University
Tessa Morris-Suzuki Australian National University
Maria Celia Paoli University of Sao Paulo
Carole Pateman University of California, Los Angeles
Orlando Patterson Harvard University
Louis Ruprecht Georgia State University
Donald Sassoon University of London
Priti Singh Jawaharlal Nehru University
Margaret R Somers University of Michigan
George Steinmetz University of Michigan
Ivan Szelenyi New York University
Alain Touraine École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Julian Triado Melbourne/ London
Peter Vale Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Study (JIAS)
Loic Wacquant University of California, Berkeley
Peter Wagner University of Barcelona