Critical social science in the global era

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A new Sussex-based internet portal for critical social science has been launched this autumn. The global site (www.theglobalsite.ac.uk), which is billed as a "gateway to world politics, society and culture", combines a publishing outlet for new work with a reviews journal-cum-archive, a library of online texts and a topical commentary area.

The site is edited by Martin Shaw (SOC), with Alex Colas (AFRAS) running the review area; other members of the editorial group include Beate Jahn, Luke Martell, William Outhwaite, Kees van der Pijl, Justin Rosenberg and Paul Smith.

In an online statement of their aims, the editors write: "We believe that working through a website offers new opportunities for flexibility in scholarship and debate, and - we encourage our contributors and readers not just to reproduce established methods of work, but to explore the new possibilities of this medium."

The open-access, multi-lingual site will publish authoritative work addressing the interdisciplinary, intellectual challenges for critical social science in the global era. It is envisaged that the site will be a valuable teaching tool and many students are already making use of its extensive links to online texts and sites across the net.

Martin (m.shaw@sussex.ac.uk) is keen to hear from Sussex faculty and graduate students who would like to publish their new papers online (which does not preclude subsequent print publication) or to put their existing work on the net (which will usually require the permission of the print publisher).

Alex (a.colas@sussex.ac.uk) would be interested to hear from those who would like to be involved in reviewing.