Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities.
The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially significant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power, as well as the political and cultural possibilities opened up by these identifications.
Besides the regular range of articles, Social Identitiesalso features Specificities and Debate sections, an occasional book review section, and special issues on topics of note.
Please note that this journal only publishes manuscripts in English.
Peer Review Policy: All research articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
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Usage
137K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.7 (2023) Impact Factor
1.1 (2023) 5 year IF
2.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.897 (2023) SNIP
0.317 (2023) SJR
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Pal Ahluwalia – The University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Toby Miller – Profesor Titular Visitante, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Profesor Cátedra de Comunicación y Teoría Crítica, Universidad de la Frontera y la Universidad Austral de Chile; and Research Professor, University of California, Riverside
Associate Editor:
Katrina Jaworski – Associate Professor, University of South Australia, Australia
Kalwant Bhopal - University of Southampton, UK Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda – University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Robin Cohen – University of Oxford, UK Angela Davis – University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Michael Dutton – Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Peter Fitzpatrick – University of London, UK Paul Gilroy – King’s College, London, UK Henry Giroux – McMaster University, Canada Lewis Gordon – Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Percy C. Hintzen – University of California, Berkeley, USA Paulin Hountondji – University of Aborney-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin Shubi Ishemo – Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds, UK Katrina Jaworski - University of South Australia, Australia Roy Krovel - Oslo and Akershus University, Oslo, Norway Scott Lash –Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK George Lipsitz – University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Tommy L. Lott – San José State University, USA Howard McGary – Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, USA Utz McKnight - University of Alabama, USA Denis-Constant Martin – University of Bordeaux, France Gerard Noiriel – Aarhus University, Denmark Mitsuo Okamoto – Hiroshima Shudo University, Japan Kenneth Parker – Saint Louis University, USA Ceri Peach – University of Oxford, UK Paulo Sergio Pinheiro – Brown University, USA Nora Räthzel – Umea University, Sweden Paula Requeijo Rey - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Denise da Silva – Queen Mary University of London, UK Abdoumaliq Simone –Max Planck Institute, Germany Mala Singh – Open University, UK Stephen Small – University of California, Berkeley, USA Laurence M. Thomas – Syracuse University, New York, USA Michele Wallace – City University of New York, USA Zoë Wicomb – University of Strathclyde, UK Patricia Williams – Columbia University, New York, USA Abebe Zegeye– Woldia University, Ethiopia
Updated 17-01-2024
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Social Identities is indexed in:
ASSIA; CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Educational Research Abstracts Online; Emerging Sources Citation Index; Geobase; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS); International Political Science Abstracts; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; Media Information Database; OCLC; PsycINFO; SCOPUS; Social Services Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; Sociology of Education Abstracts; Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts and Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts.
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