Thesis Eleven
Thesis Eleven was established in Melbourne in 1980. The journal was self-published for ten years, before taking up with MIT Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1990 to 2000. Since then the journal has been published by Sage, out of London, Los Angeles, Singapore, Delhi. For more than ten years it has published 6 issues per annum with Sage. It has become one of the leading journals of social theory in the world.
Thesis Eleven was cofounded by me, Julian Triado and Alastair Davidson. I stepped back as editor in 2020, and now functions as Founding Editor. I was review editor for most of the forty years I actively edited the journal.
There are different appraisals of the Thesis Eleven story, for example in its 30th anniversary issue: see George Steinmetz, 'Thirty Years of Thesis Eleven', in issue 100, 2010, 67-80. From its inception the journal drew on the thinking of Critical Theory, Western Marxism, adding the influence of the Budapest School and Castoriadis and many others, shifting into historical sociology and cultural sociology as well as working out of these origins in critical theory. For some reminiscences, see Peter's podcast together with Alonso Casanueva Baptista and Andrew Gilbert. Its influences and influence expanded and opened across these decades, magnified by its ongoing activities and events in public life both in the antipodes and abroad, most recently in China.
The best suggested portal into Thesis Eleven is via the Thesis Eleven webpage. For articles, see the Thesis Eleven, Sage website.
Featured in the image above is the work of our collaborator Emily Floyd