Graduate Journal of Social Science

Volume 9:1, March 2012: Critical Whiteness Studies - Methodologies

admin@gjss.org (editor) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 08:55:09 +0000

Sexuality in Focus

admin@gjss.org (editor) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:32:37 +0000

The Graduate Journal of Social Sciences (GJSS) invites papers for its December 2012 special edition on Sexuality in Focus. This issue is inspired by the Network of Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies in Europe (NOISE) 2011 Summer School, which was hosted by the University of Utrecht (the Netherlands). This year’s theme was ‘The Miraculous (dis)appearing Act of Sexuality: Mapping the Study of Sexuality in Europe, 1960-2010’. Central to this summer school was the exploration of what has appeared in discourses of sexualities and what has been missing. The special issue aims to further explore this complex and multifaceted subject.

Theorising Futurities in the Social Sciences

admin@gjss.org (editor) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 06:20:01 +0000

In times of crisis and social change, the question of the future can become increasingly pressing. Amidst the threat of continued economic recession, extensive budget cuts, and the growing intrusion of government into the sphere of academic research, it is understandable that the future has become shrouded in discussions of impending catastrophe and the indisputable sensation that things can only be getting worse. This edition explores this by asking how the future is being represented and played out in the contemporary social world. It asks how we, as social scientists, theorise futures in times of apparent social crisis and change, and asks how these dynamics may affect our methodological and epistemological approaches. Must we always strive for ‘positive’ futures? And what could come out of a social science driven by ‘negativity’?