ENQUIRE Issue 7 - Call for Peer Reviewers
Identity Research:
Past Present & Future
Issue 7 – Summer 2012
Call for peer reviewers – deadline 30 November 2011
ENQUIRE is a high-quality online journal for the social sciences which provides an encouraging and exciting space for academic research both from the UK and abroad. ENQUIRE aims to fill a gap in the postgraduate research community by providing a critical yet supportive outlet for publications from postgraduate students, post-doctoral students, and early career academics.
ENQUIRE is currently seeking new and experienced peer reviewers for our seventh issue, which will be based on the ENQUIRE conference “Identity Research: Past, Present & Future” (held at the University of Nottingham, September 2011).
About this issue:
If you are interested in becoming a peer reviewer for this issue (or in the future), please contact us on ENQUIRE@nottingham.ac.uk before 30 November 2011. You can visit our website at http://enquirenottingham.co.uk/ for further information about the ENQUIRE conferences and journal, along with access to previous issues.Negotiating, employing and maintaining individual and collective identities have been significant themes within social science research for many years. The enduring nature of these strands has allowed them to take on ever more diverse forms in increasingly complex settings – from the macro-social levels of inter-group conflicts to the intimate and everyday identity work in relation to gender, sexuality, race and disability. Identity continues to resonate with researchers as a central concept in addressing the pressing sociological issues of our time.Approaches to the conceptualisation and investigation of identity continue to evolve. Debates over the ‘real’ or the socially constructed nature of aspects of self and the value of inter-disciplinary approaches raise important questions about the future of identity research. How has the proliferation of approaches such as critical realism created opportunities for advances in identity research? Does a psychosocial orientation entail a working together of the intensely personal, individual aspects of identity with the broader, social-collective context of sociology?The debates raised by identity research apply across the discipline and call into question the identity of sociologists themselves. How are sociologists adapting to an increasingly competitive research context characterised by a growing focus on impact and inter-disciplinary work?
