Pertti ALASUUTARI (University of Tampere, Finland) | [email protected] Ellen ANNANDALE (University of York, United Kingdom) | [email protected]
Ricca EDMONDSON (National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) | Ricca.Edmondson@nuigalw Chair: Ricca Edmonson
Ricca Edmondson, D.Phil., is Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Her published work includes Ageing, Insight and Wisdom: Meaning and Practice across the Life Course (Policy, 2015), Ireland: Society and Culture (Distance University Hagen, 1998) and Rhetoric in Sociology (Macmillan, 1984). She has edited or co-edited Politics of Practical Reasoning: Integrating Action, Discourse and Argument (Rowan and Littlefield, 2012), Valuing Older People: Towards a Humanistic Gerontology (Policy, 2008), Environmental Argument and Cultural Difference: Locations, Fractures and Deliberations (Peter Lang, 2008), Health Promotion: New Discipline or Multidiscipline? (Irish Academic Press, 2000) and The Political Context of Collective Action: Argumentation, Power and Democracy (Routledge, 1997). She also belonged to the team editing the third edition of Family and Community in Ireland by Arensberg and Kimball (CLASP, 2001). Her experience in journal editing includes the active membership of several editorial boards, editing the Irish Journal of Sociology, and now co-editing the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. She is a member of RN1 on Ageing and of the ESA Executive Committee.
Pertti Alasuutari / Ellen Annandale / Ricca Edmondson / Siobhan Kattago / Eeva Luhtakallio / Charles Turner / Michalis Lianos / Marta Soler
Good ideas deserve to be put into the public sphere, while most people want their research to be better known (and are under pressure to publish); journal editors are desperate for well- written articles that have something arresting to say and that fit their remits. This session is therefore designed both to encourage ESA members to write journal articles and to share some ideas on how to do it.
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The members of the panel can offer participants a range of long and varied experience in editing journals and in working with authors to help make their work clearer and more appealing. We would like to urge ESA members to attend the session in order to hear more about what journal editors are looking for in articles submitted to them, and to share any problems they may have experienced in getting published.
We shall try to offer constructive ideas about how to improve journal publishing from the standpoints of authors, editors and readers. Questions from the floor will be very welcome. Biographies: Pertti Alasuutari, PhD, is Professor at the University of Tampere, School of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and his research interests include global and transnational phenomena, media, social theory, and social research methodology. Publications include The Synchronization of National Policies (Routledge 2015, forthcoming), Social Theory and Human Reality (Sage 2004), Rethinking the Media Audience (Sage 1999), An Invitation to Social Research (Sage 1998), and Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies (Sage 1995). He has a total of 172 scientific publications, including 41 peer-reviewed articles in English. He is member of the ESA Executive committee and a board member of the ESA RN7: Sociology of Culture and RN15: Global, transnational and cosmopolitan sociology.
Ellen Annandale is Professor and HoD of Sociology at the University of York, UK. She has extensive experience of journal and book editing. For example, between 2004 and 2010 she was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Social Science & Medicine. She has also been Chair of the Board of the journal Sociology of Health & Illness. Currently she is co-editor of the ESA Book Series (with Maria Carmela Agodi). Additionally she has been editor of several edited books and special issues of journals. Her own research focuses on the areas of the sociology of health and sociology of gender, where recent publications include The Sociology of Health and Medicine, 2nd edn (Polity 2014), Women's Health and Social Change (Routledge 2009) and the edited collection Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Healthcare (edited with Ellen Kuhlmann, Palgrave 2012). She is a member of the ESA Executive Committee.
Siobhan Kattago is a senior research fellow in philosophy at Tartu University in Estonia and received her doctorate at the New School for Social Research in New York. Her academic interests include collective memory, social and political philosophy. She is book review editor for the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies (2014) and author of Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe: The Persistence of the Past (Ashgate 2012) and Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity (Praeger 2001).
Eeva Luhtakallio is a university lecturer in sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland (on research leave 2015-16). She received her PhD at the University of Helsinki in 2010. Her fields of expertise and publication include comparative, political, cultural, and visual sociology, ethnographic research, social theory, and gender studies. She is editor-in-chief for the Finnish journal of sociology, Sosiologia, and editor for the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, as well as member of the editorial board for Participations. She is the author of Practicing Democracy: Local Activism and Politics in France and Finland (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Charles Turner teaches sociology at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Modernity and Politics in the Work of Max Weber (1992) and Investigating Sociological Theory (2010) and publishes mostly in the area of social and political thought.
Michalis Lianos is Professor at the University of Rouen-Haute Normandie and Editor-in-chief of the European Sociological Association journal « European Societies ». He was previously Lecturer at the University of London (Goldsmiths College) and Director of the Centre for Empirically Informed Social Theory (CEIST) at the University of Portsmouth. Michalis works on an empirically informed understanding of socio-economic and socio-cultural transitions in late modernity.
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Marta Soler, Harvard PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, Director of CREA Community of Researchers and Vice-Chair of the RN29 Social Theory. Editor of the ISA journal International Sociology. Main Researcher of the Horizon-2020 project SOLIDUS which studies solidarity in Europe. She is the first SSH researcher at the ORCID Board of Directors.