From the 2012 volume of Identities, a new editorial team will take over from August Carbonella, Sharryn Kasmir, and Belinda Leach.
Claire Alexander (Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science) will be the Editor of Identities, along with two Associate Editors, Raminder Kaur Kahlon (Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex) and Brett St Louis (Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London).
Claire, Raminder, and Brett have set out the aims and scope of
Identities under their editorship, brought together a new, distinguished, international, and interdisciplinary Editorial Board to support this vision, and put in place a publishing association with the highly-ranked and distinguished Ethnic Studies title,
Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Identities will be committed to publishing high-quality original research which explores the formation and transformation of racial, ethnic, national, transnational, and postcolonial identities in the contemporary world.
New Aims & Scope
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power is ranked in the Ethnic Studies (social science) category
of the Thomson Reuters 2010 Journal Citation Reports®.
Questions of culture and cultural identity have emerged at the core of issues of social and political division, contestation and transformation across the globe and between and within nation-states in recent years.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power explores the formation and transformation of racial, ethnic, national, transnational and postcolonial identities in the contemporary world. It locates culture, representations and identities as key sites for processes of domination, struggle and resistance, recognising their intersection with other forms of social division and identification.
Identities provides an interdisciplinary space for new theoretically informed empirical research and critical analysis which opens up questions of race, ethnicity and culture. It draws on and brings together insights from anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, social policy, cultural geography, political science and social psychology. Published in association with Ethnic and Racial Studies, Identities seeks to engage established and emerging scholars in the field in contributing high quality articles, special issues, commentaries and debates which address key questions of culture and identity with which the journal is engaged.
