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Call for Papers: Sports / Dance / Movement as Social Practice in the Context of Nationalism, Discrimination, and Social Activism

Posted Date: 2025-11-25

Expiry Date: 2026-02-02

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on “Sports / Dance / Movement as Social Practice in the Context of Nationalism, Discrimination, and Social Activism” edited by Nóra Kovács and Arin Agich.

Abstract submission deadline: February 1, 2026

Full paper submission by: May 15, 2026

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Call for Papers: Ecologies of Education in the Context of Forced Migration

Posted Date: 2025-11-25

Expiry Date: 2025-12-20

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on “Ecologies of Education in the Context of Forced Migration”.

Guest editors: Kristina Kocyba and Pawel Rudnicki

Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2025

Notification of acceptance: 10 January 2026

Full paper submission: 31 March 2026
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Call for Papers: Global Turmoil and Conflicting Hierarchies

Posted Date: 2024-05-20

Expiry Date: 2024-06-10

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on “Global Turmoil and Conflicting Hierarchies”.

Guest editors: Béla Soltész – András Szalai – Katalin Turai – Rusudan Margiani (ELTE)

Abstract deadline: 10 June 2024
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Call for Papers: Privatized Childhoods: the decreasing role of the state in childcare services

Posted Date: 2023-12-07

Expiry Date: 2024-02-15

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue 'Privatized Childhoods: the decreasing role of the state in childcare services' edited by Eszter Berényi, Eszter Neumann and Szabina Kerényi.

Abstract deadline: 16 February 2024, full papers due by 15 June 2024
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Call for Applications: Marketing & Communications Internship Program (IMCIP) (Closed)

Posted Date: 2023-11-07

Expiry Date: 2023-12-31

Deadline for submitting your application: November 30, 2023.

Intersections has opened its call for applications for the Marketing & Communications Internship Program (IMCIP).

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Call for Papers: Text as Data

Posted Date: 2023-01-27

Expiry Date: 2023-03-15

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue ‘Text as data’ – Eastern and Central European political discourses from the perspective of computational social science, guest edited by Ildikó Barna (Eötvös Loránd University), Theresa Gessler (European University Viadrina), Renáta Németh (Eötvös Loránd University), Domonkos Sik (Eötvös Loránd University), and Hanna Orsolya Vincze (Babes Bolyai University).

Abstract deadline: 15 March 2023, full papers due by 31 July 2023.
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Call for Papers: Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and the European East/West Divisions

Posted Date: 2023-01-16

Expiry Date: 2023-02-20

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue Unsettling Gender, Sexuality, and the European East/West Divisions (edited by Maria Mayerchyk, Greifswald University and Jennifer Ramme, European University Viadrina).
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Call for Papers: Beyond Weber

Posted Date: 2022-10-04

Expiry Date: 2022-11-14

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue Beyond Weber – Social Change between Disenchantment and Rationalisation Processes in Plural Communities (edited by Stefánia Toma, Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities and Babeș-Bolyai University, Maria Manuela Mendes, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas at the University of Lisbon and CIES-Iscte, Pedro Jorge Caetano, Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA) of the New University of Lisbon, and Thomas Kemple, University of British Columbia).
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Call for Papers: New forms of social integration

Posted Date: 2022-09-20

Expiry Date: 2022-11-30

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on

New forms of social integration, and their relationship to new forms of inequality

Guest Editors: Márton Gerő (Centre for Social Sciences); Imre Kovách (Centre for Social Sciences); Luca Kristóf (Centre for Social Sciences)

Recurrent crises of contemporary societies led to new forms of inequalities accompanied by growing importance of disparities, a renewed urban-rural divide, sharpening political polarization and exclusive social identities. Under these circumstances, traditional approaches to social stratification provide a less and less satisfactory explanation for how new forms of inequity develop, and how they reorganize our societies on the local and global level. Furthermore, this transformation means not only the emergence of new forms of difference, but social forms and mechanisms of social integration are also changing. Understanding the realignment of social inequalities requires a novel and complex approach to social integration.
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Call for Papers: New Questions of Children’s Rights

Posted Date: 2022-05-28

Expiry Date: 2022-08-31

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue ‘New Questions of Children’s Rights’ edited by Agnes Lux (Centre for Social Sciences, Child Opportunities Research Group) and Rita Richter Nunes (Hochschule RheinMain).

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Extended Deadline: Argumentative Patterns in Law

Posted Date: 2022-01-06

Expiry Date: 2022-06-30

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue Argumentative Patterns in Law (edited by Viktor Lőrincz and Miklós Könczöl, Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest).
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Call for Papers: Gender (Studies) in Exile - EXTENDED DEADLINE 30 SEPTEMBER

Posted Date: 2021-06-21

Expiry Date: 2021-09-30

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on “Gender (Studies) in Exile”. Guest Editors: Judit Takács (KWI Essen; Centre for Social Sciences); Achim Rohde (Academy in Exile, Freie Universität Berlin)

This thematic issue aims to bring together scholars with an interest in conducting gender studies research in challenging, or in some cases hostile, circumstances, especially in countries where gender studies as an academic discipline is being delegitimized by state authorities. We welcome papers that explore theoretically and/or empirically the strategies, narratives, and underlying motivations that fuel such campaigns against gender studies as well as their academic and social impact. We are equally interested in contributions that focus on responses and counter strategies developed by gender studies scholars and scholars in exile in general. We encourage the application of a broad understanding of exile, including external exile and various forms of inner exile such as a condition of voicelessness, and non-territorial exile at home.
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EXTENDED DEADLINE – Individual Success, Collective Failure?

Posted Date: 2020-12-17

Expiry Date: 2021-01-15

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue Individual success, collective failure? The process and consequences of social (im)mobility in neo-liberal times (edited by Judit Durst, Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences and UCL, Department of Anthropology and Ákos Huszár, Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences).
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Call for Papers: State Intervention and Parenting in Central and Eastern Europe

Posted Date: 2020-12-17

Expiry Date: 2021-01-31

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue State Intervention and Parenting in Central and Eastern Europe (edited by Alexandra Szőke, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, and Cecília Kovai, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Budapest).
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Call for Papers: Individual Success, Collective Failure?

Posted Date: 2020-11-12

Expiry Date: 2020-12-10

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue Individual success, collective failure? The process and consequences of social (im)mobility in neo-liberal times (edited by Judit Durst, Institute for Minority Studies, Centre for Social Sciences and UCL, Department of Anthropology and Ákos Huszár, Institute for Sociology, Centre for Social Sciences).
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Call for Papers: Resilience and Resistance in Illiberal Regimes

Posted Date: 2020-07-28

Expiry Date: 2020-09-22

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on Resilience and Resistance in Illiberal Regimes: Practices Supporting Vulnerable Groups (edited by Zsuzsanna Vidra, CEU Center for Policy Studies and ELTE PPK IIPE and Michael C. Zeller, CEU Center for Policy Studies and Department of Political Science).
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Call for Papers: COVID-19 and Society

Posted Date: 2020-07-01

Expiry Date: 2020-07-30

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on COVID-19 & Society (edited by Júlia Koltai, Márton Karsai, and Bence Ságvári).
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Call for Papers: Grassroots Responses to Mass Migration in Europe - Extended Deadline

Posted Date: 2020-03-11

Expiry Date: 2020-05-20

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on Grassroots Responses to Mass Migration in Europe (edited by Sabine Hess, Antonio De Lauri, Carna Brkovic).
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General Call for Papers

Posted Date: 2020-02-27

Expiry Date: 2020-12-01

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) is continuously accepting original research papers across the disciplines of political science, sociology, social anthropology and minority studies.
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Call for Papers: Active Youth? Trends of political participation in East Central Europe

Posted Date: 2019-09-12

Expiry Date: 2019-11-01

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on Active Youth? Trends of political participation in East Central Europe (edited by Dániel Oross, Pál Susánszky and Tobias Spöri).
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Call for Papers: Passionate Europe. An expressive turn in European parliamentary election campaign communication and media discourses

Posted Date: 2019-08-23

Expiry Date: 2019-09-30

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) invites original research papers for its thematic issue on Passionate Europe. An expressive turn in European parliamentary election campaign communication and media discourses (edited by Gabriella Szabó, Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).
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Call for Papers: Social integration and inter-ethnic relations in schools

Posted Date: 2019-04-11

Expiry Date: 2019-08-31

The social integration and school inclusion of disadvantaged ethnic minorities and of pupils with foreign, migrant and refugee backgrounds are key problems to educational policy. Existing research highlights that even successful integration programs could only enhance social integration at the interpersonal level to a limited extent and resulted in few inter-ethnic friendship relations. At the same time, social and educational inequalities and prejudices towards ethnic minorities persisted within schools.
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Call for Papers: Beyond recognition: crises of political representation

Posted Date: 2019-04-11

Expiry Date: 2019-08-31

Though the recognition paradigm in social sciences has increasingly been coming under scrutiny in the past few years, the social dynamic of recognition struggles has not been in the focus of research. Typically, the question asked is how silenced parts of society, groups of individuals subjected to past or present oppression, are given voice by various sorts of activism. What we often see, in fact, is that the actual politics of recognition results in a competition of mutually exclusive, self-totalizing moral universes that seek to degrade each other, akin to a zero-sum game. In memory politics, a “victimhood competition” for equal recognition often unfolds, with each side aiming to get its own social suffering publicly recognized by the other. The position of victimhood here seems to function as the condition of entering into the field of recognition claims. With this in mind there is a pressing need to comprehend the various forms of victimization in political identity when claiming recognition.
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Call for Papers: The Chinese and Europe – Perceptions, influence and interactions

Posted Date: 2018-10-18

Expiry Date: 2019-01-31

There has been much anxiety and speculation about the impact of "China's rise" on Europe. Much has been written about the potential effects of Chinese companies investing in cash-strapped industries on Europe's jobs, intellectual property, and cybersecurity. Much less has been published on the expansion of Confucius Institutes, Chinese state media and other Chinese cultural outfits as forms of "soft power". More studies have focused on how to attract even more Chinese students and tourists, while only some on the political fallout of China's Belt and Road project and its way of dealing with Central and Eastern Europe as a potential divide-and-rule strategy towards the EU. Too little has been written on the impact of Chinese capital in the European film and cultural industries or the changing European public perception on China.
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Call for Papers: Enforcing Equality? Promises and Limits of Legal Responses to Systemic Inequalities

Posted Date: 2018-03-06

Expiry Date: 2018-10-31

Inequalities are rising, with social divisions being increasingly presented as cultural, ethnic, religious, or racial, as resulting from unchangeable traces and/or deep historical roots, revolving around essentialist visions of groups of people. This undermines the moral equality of, and solidarity between, individuals that are central to constitutional democracy, and arguably to the very concept of law. The impact on law could not be more pronounced. While legal solutions to combat inequalities had proved in many cases to be insufficient (that many claim is the result of the individualist approach that cannot capture systemic violations resulting from exploitation), even these limited responses have now come under attack in many contexts, including gender and sexual orientation. Documenting and understanding this process can become a part of overcoming this challenge and can lead to new insights and innovative solutions that enable law to address systemic inequalities.
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Call for Papers: Central-East European Societies on the Map of Europe

Posted Date: 2018-02-21

Expiry Date: 2018-08-31

Paper submissions which are accepted can also be presented and discussed at the 2^nd ESS Visegrad Regional Network conference to be held in 7-8 June, 2018 in Budapest. For authors with accepted abstracts to the special issue, funding will be available for travel and accommodation.
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Mobilization through Enemy Images in Central and Eastern Europe - Issue Launch

Posted Date: 2017-11-08

Expiry Date: 2018-02-19

With gratitude for your support whether as author, editor, reviewer or reader, we would kindly invite you to a small chat about the launch of the new issue of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, which will be celebrated with a toast on the same occasion.
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Call for Papers: Roma Migration and Mobility

Posted Date: 2017-02-11

Expiry Date: 2018-02-07

Increasing numbers of studies provide data-rich descriptions of Roma migration in Europe, although most of these fail to look at the subject from a theoretical and interdisciplinary perspective. Taking into account the agency of Roma migrants, their perceptions and aspirations, this call invites researchers to submit theoretical contributions to the field from different disciplines. We are especially interested in papers that link a micro-level understanding of migration-related decisions and trajectories to macro-level trends in social transformation through an analysis of the social dynamics of the migration process.
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Call for Papers: Europeanization and Changes in Minority Inclusion in Central and Eastern Europe

Posted Date: 2016-06-22

Expiry Date: 2018-02-19

It is widely acknowledged that two decades of “Europeanization”—conceived as both the physical expansion of the European Union and the diffusion of European norms and practices—have had a profound influence on ethnic relations. Although the pacifying impact of European integration in post-communist Europe is widely acknowledged, significant questions remain open about the future of peaceful and democratic interethnic relations. The scope of this special issue is to provide a framework for scholars to discuss the specific ways in which conditions for minority inclusion have changed in Central and Eastern Europe. We conceive of political and social boundary-making as intertwined in significant ways, requiring scholars to bridge research agendas and pool resources in an effort to tackle the complexity of questions involving minority inclusion. We believe the journal Intersections provides an ideal venue for this approach, given its mission to open space for scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and create linkages among scholars in diverse regions.
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Call for Papers: Human rights in the EU’s conditionality policy towards enlargement countries in the Western Balkans

Posted Date: 2016-06-02

Expiry Date: 2018-02-19

Western Balkan states have been in the focus of European foreign policy for the last two and a half decades, from the Yugoslav wars to the asylum seekers arriving through the Balkan route. Both the most recent and the upcoming EU accessions concern countries from the region, which is why the EU’s engagement is central for the future of this region.
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Call for Papers: Divergent perspectives of political engagement in Europe. What does the European Social Survey tell us about generational differences in political participation?

Posted Date: 2016-03-07

Expiry Date: 2017-01-01

The extreme social upheaval witnessed during the early decades of the 21st century has impacted on the lives of citizens in significant ways. Therefore both political attitudes and the level of engagement in politics have changed substantially. The global economic crisis has had a direct impact on young citizens: they are most likely to face unemployment, unstable career prospects, and thus feel alienated and disenfranchised from society. Although politicians and academics have called attention to the fact that young people are increasingly disengaged from conventional politics, young peoples’ perspectives and generational differences are rarely taken into account simultaneously. Is there a generational cleavage concerning the perspectives on engagement? Read more about Call for Papers: Divergent perspectives of political engagement in Europe. What does the European Social Survey tell us about generational differences in political participation?
Call for Papers: Global migration crisis and Europe: Whose crisis is it?

Posted Date: 2016-02-19

Expiry Date: 2017-01-01

The global refugee crisis in 2015 has become a central theme of public life in Europe, and it is most likely that it will remain at the top of the agenda in 2016 as well. This is usually explained by its unprecedented volume and the circumstances of how non-EU citizens have crossed EU borders. Refugee reception systems have not been able to handle the large number of asylum-seekers and their failure questions existing legal and policy frameworks within the EU, one of the wealthiest political entities in the world. How unique this situation is in global or historical perspectives is a matter of debate. Different waves of massive migration have been part and parcel of European history. Looking at migration in a global context we must acknowledge the existence of substantially larger migrant populations fleeing violent conflict zones. Migration that is presented as a crisis and as the most important problem of the EU may be attributed to causes that are not necessarily related to migration. Therefore, the ‘migration crisis’ discourse may reflect other fundamental problems in European societies. Read more about Call for Papers: Global migration crisis and Europe: Whose crisis is it?
Call for Papers: Reconfiguring concepts and understanding realities for social sciences in the age of big data

Posted Date: 2016-02-10

Expiry Date: 2016-08-30

The challenge of the new data landscape has become a dominant theme within discussions in social science from both the perspective of theory and methodology. Certainly, big data has been a major issue, however it is still rather unclear what impact it has on societies, politics and markets. Read more about Call for Papers: Reconfiguring concepts and understanding realities for social sciences in the age of big data
Call for Papers for a Thematic Issue. Karl Polányi—Here and Now

Posted Date: 2015-10-26

Expiry Date: 2016-01-01

We are pleased to invite authors to engage in a discussion of the contemporary relevance of Karl Polányi’s work. We are especially interested in contributions that foreground the germaneness of his work to (east-)central Europe.
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Call for Papers for a Special Issue. Work-life balance/imbalance: individual, organizational and social experiences

Posted Date: 2015-08-28

Expiry Date: 2016-01-02

We invite papers that touch upon the work-life balance dilemmas from a Central Eastern European perspective. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. We encourage scholars to submit an abstract of 600-800 words including a short bio and the description of the main question(s) and finding(s) of the paper together with the methodology applied, by October 30^th, 2015 through our online submission system. Read more about Call for Papers for a Special Issue. Work-life balance/imbalance: individual, organizational and social experiences
Call for Papers: Workers and the Post-Industrial Landscape: The Rise of a New Labour?

Posted Date: 2015-07-08

Expiry Date: 2016-01-01

Western scholars such as André Gorz already predicted the decline of the large industrial working class before the implementation of the neoliberal project in advanced Western countries. The process was the most dramatic in Margaret Thatcher’s England, where the right-wing government succeeded in breaking the resistance of militant trade unions and effectively de-industrialized and impoverished the former mining regions.
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Call for Papers: The programme-to-policy linkage in Eastern Europe from a comparative perspective

Posted Date: 2015-05-26

Expiry Date: 2016-01-01

The programme-to-policy linkage is a cornerstone of representative democracy. Compared with the theory of accountability, where voters evaluate governments ex post, mandate theory suggests that under certain conditions, voters make pre-election evaluations, and use electoral pledges to estimate future government policy.
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Call for Papers: special issue of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics -Production of marginality: spatial exclusion and development programs

Posted Date: 2015-03-11

Expiry Date: 2015-08-10

The formation of 'Roma ghettos' across Europe as impoverished territories associated with "Gypsyness" is a manifestation of spatialization and racialization of social exclusion, and eventually of advanced marginality created by the overlapping mechanisms of capitalism and racism. Read more about Call for Papers: special issue of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics -Production of marginality: spatial exclusion and development programs
Call for Papers: special issue of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics - Social movements and contentious politics in Central and Eastern Europe

Posted Date: 2015-01-05

Expiry Date: 2015-03-31

The systematic study of social movements in Central and Eastern Europe began with studying the transition of Communist regimes and the role of grass roots mobilizations in that process. Over the years large parts of civil society became professionalized and social movements were often limited to their subcultural enclaves. This development led to a complex relationship between political parties, contentious politics and society. Nevertheless, despite common beliefs concerning weak civil societies, the region witnessed numerous protest campaigns, waves of mobilization accompanying the Global Justice Movement, and in recent years the growth of far-right movements. Read more about Call for Papers: special issue of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics - Social movements and contentious politics in Central and Eastern Europe
The first Issue of Interesctions will be published soon

Posted Date: 2015-01-05

Expiry Date: 2015-03-07

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General Call

Posted Date: 2015-01-05

Expiry Date: 2015-05-10

Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (IEEJSP) is now accepting original research papers across the disciplines of political science, sociology, social anthropology and minority studies.
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Call for Papers for the Second Issue

Posted Date: 2015-01-05

Expiry Date: 2015-01-30

Social sciences in East-Central Europe and other (semi)peripheries: Colonization, partnership or autonomy?
The second issue of Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics aims at a critical reflection on the epistemological position and the public authority of social sciences in European and non-European (semi)peripheries. It investigates the distinct regional voices in social sciences of (semi)peripheries and their comparative position in global knowledge production.
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