Moving the Social - Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements

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Moving the Social - Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements is an international and peer-reviewed journal rooted in the discipline of history but with an explicit interest in work produced on social affairs and social movements by other disciplines, in particular the social sciences, geography, anthropology and ethnology. It is particularly keen to promote transnational and comparative perspectives on the history of social movements set in a wider context of social history. It appears twice yearly, with one issue on a particular theme and one thematically mixed issue. Each issue includes a comprehensive review article, one of which each year is on recent publications in social movement studies.

Moving the Social publishes research at the cutting edge of social movement history, broadly defined. This involves in particular the analysis of the diversity of economic, social, political and mental structures of social movements and the introduction of new research that is relevant to the field of social movement studies.

Moving the Social is published by Klartext publishers, one of the foremost academic publishers in Germany. The journal is the continuation of the Mitteilungsblatt des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen which has been successfully published at the Institute for Social Movements since 1977. The new English title stands for the internationalisation of the journal under its new editorial team, which welcomes articles on the “old” labour movements, “new” social movements, and on contemporary global problems such as climate change, neoliberalism, the extreme right, migration and human rights.

The editors also welcome submissions on a broad range of themes, including national movements, regional and global perspectives on social history, as well as the history and theory of historiography, especially where historiographies of social movements and theoretical perspectives on social history are concerned. Of particular interest is the history of regions of heavy industry and their industrial heritage, a field in which the journal enjoys a strong tradition.

Recent thematic issues have encompassed collective studies of social movements in the Nordic countries, urban workers in Brazil, biographical perspectives on left-wing activism, and disability movements. The editors invite proposals for future special issues.

All issues from 1977 have recently been digitised and can be found online, with the latest issues being only available to subscribers: here.

For any enquiries please contact:
mts@rub.de

Already published

No. 68 (2022) Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 67 (2022) Capitalism, Democracy and the History of political Ideologies
No. 66 (2021) Unwelcome Participation: Ostracizing public Protest in the second Half of the twentieth Century
No. 65 (2021) Right-wing populist movements and gender
No. 64 (2020)  '1968' in Britain
No. 63 (2020)

Cross Movement Mobilisation - Perspectives from the Global North and South

No. 62 (2019) Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 61 (2019)
Small Worlds: Football at the Grassroots in Europe
No. 60 (2018) Social Movements, Protest, and Academic Knowledge Formation. Interactions since the 1960s
No. 59 (2018) Sex Workers' Fights - Prostitutes' Rights Movement in European and American Countries
No.58 (2017) Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 57 (2017) Transnational humanitarian Action: Atlantic and global voluntary Activities from Abolitionism to the NGO's  1800-2000
No. 56 (2016)  Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 55 (2016) The Internationalism of Social Movements
No. 54 (2015)
Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 53 (2015) Disability Movements: National Policies and Transnational Perspectives
No. 52 (2014) Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 51 (2014) Lives on the Left
No. 50 (2013) Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 49 (2013) Space, Culture and Labour: Brazilian Urban Workers in the Twentieth Century
No. 48 (2012) Social Movements in the Nordic Countries since 1900
No. 47 (2012) Essays on Social History and the History of Social Movements
No. 46 (2011) Transnationale Parteienkooperation in Europa: Empirische Grundlagen und konzeptionelle Perspektiven
No. 45 (2011) Biografien der Arbeiterbewegung im 20. Jahrhundert
No. 44 (2010) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 43 (2010) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 42 (2009) Deutsche Gewerkschaften und europäische Integration im 20. Jahrhundert
No. 41 (2009) Sozialgeschichte und soziale Bewegungen in Slowenien
No. 40 (2008) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 39 (2008) Raumbildung als mentaler Prozess: Schwerindustrielle Ballungsregionen im Vergleich
No. 38 (2007) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 37 (2007) Sowjetische Bergleute und Industriearbeiter - Neue Forschungen
No. 36 (2006) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 35 (2006) Die Gewerkschaftselite der Nachkriegszeit: Prägung - Funktion - Leitbilder
No. 34 (2005) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 33 (2005) Social Movements in Southeast Europe. Reassessment of Historiography and Perspectives for Future Research
No. 32 (2004) Peace Movements in Western Europe, Japan and the USA since 1945
No. 31 (2004) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 30 (2003) Strukturwandel aus vergleichender Perspektive nach 1945: Ruhrgebiet und Nord-Pas-de-Calais
No. 29 (2003) Rosa Luxemburg und die Arbeiterbewegung. Neuere Ansätze in Rezeption und Forschung
No. 28 (2003) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 27 (2002) Labour and Social History in Great Britain. Historiographical Reviews and Agendas
No. 26 (2001) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 25 (2001) Amerikanische Arbeitergeschichte heute
No. 24 (2000) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 23 (2000) Sozialgeschichte und soziale Bewegungen in der Historiographie der Tschechischen und Slowakischen Republik
No. 22 (1999) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 21 (1998) Sozialgeschichte und soziale Bewegungen in Italien 1848-1998
No. 20 (1998) Forschungen und Forschungsberichte
No. 19 (1997) Forschungen zur Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Norwegen
No. 18 (1997) Kolloquium für Hans Mommsen: Freiheit und Sozialismus. Arbeiterbewegung und Menschenrechte in Deutschland im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
No. 17 (1996) Forschungen zur Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Spanien
No. 16 (1995) Forschungen zur Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Rußland
No. 15 (1994) Strukturpolitik und Arbeitnehmererfahrungen in altindustriellen Krisenregionen: Ruhrgebiet, Pittsburgh und Asturien
No. 14 (1993) Forschungen zur Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Frankreich
No. 13 (1993) Forschungen zur Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Polen
No. 12 (1992) Forschungen zur Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Finnland
No. 11 (1991) Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Großbritannien. Forschungsstand und Perspektiven der Forschung
No. 10 (1990) Forschungen zur Arbeiterschaft und Arbeiterbewegung in Schweden
No. 9 (1990) "Gründerväter - Bürokraten - Akademiker". Zur Rekrutierung des gewerkschaftlichen Führungspersonals


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