Ana Dinerstein to guest edit Sociology Special Issue: the Global Economic Crisis

14 December 2012

Dr Ana C. Dinerstein will be one of the guest editors for the Special Issue of the Sociology Journal to be published in 2014.

Sociology is acknowledged as one of the leading journals in its field. For more than four decades, the journal has made a major contribution to the debates that have shaped the discipline and has an undisputed international reputation for publishing original research of the highest academic standard.

The Editorial Board of Sociology, the journal of the British Sociological Association, considered 11 submissions received as proposals for the Call for the Special Issue of the journal in 2014.

Dr Dinerstein's proposal on the Global Economic Crisis (co-authored with Dr Gregory Schwartz from the School of Management, and Dr Graham Taylor, from Sociology at the University of the West England) was selected as the successful submission.

The Editorial Board considered the proposal covered important and topical themes with which sociology must actively engage and with which Sociology would wish to be associated. They were particularly interested in the way the proposal queried the concept of ‘crisis’ as well as working with it.

The Special Issue will address the urgent need to deconstruct and interrogate the formulation and reality of the global economic crisis. Additionally, it will systematically and critically to investigate the specifically social processes underpinning its development and intensification.

The emergence of the current crisis has tended to highlight serious limits to the sociological imagination. The rethinking the ‘crisis’ could facilitate the renewal of sociology as a major intellectual force in the public sphere, and sociologists as key public intellectuals in contemporary debates on the global economic crisis.

The special issue aims to bridge disciplines, broadening the scope of knowledge beyond disciplinary boundaries or theoretical framework.

Call for Papers

A Call for Papers for this special issue is now available. Contributions will be invited to;

• explore how sociology can contribute to a better understanding of the (lived experience of) the global economic crisis
• reflect on how social processes and movements confronting the crisis can inspire a new sociological imagination.