Social Change
Social Change publishes empirically-grounded analytical papers, theoretical essays and policy discussions in the field of social change and development. This multi-disciplinary, quarterly journal has a global readership among academia, social movements, NGOs and policy makers. We invite contributions from eminent thinkers and researchers as well as young, innovative writers from India and abroad.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).Manuscripts should be emailed, as MS Word files, to socialchange@csdindia.org. Manuscripts will be considered for publication only if written and formatted in accordance with the journal’s style guide. Otherwise, these will be returned or desk rejected.
Submissions emailed to Social Change are normally acknowledged within 2–3 days. Authors, who do not receive an acknowledgement in their inboxes, are requested to check their spam folders. Owing to the bulk of submissions received, frequent queries from the author/s cannot be entertained by the Editorial Team.
Manuscripts should only be submitted with the consent of all contributing authors. The individual responsible for submitting the manuscript should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the manuscript are listed as authors.
Ensure you upload all relevant manuscript files, including any additional supplemental files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Social Change, an interdisciplinary social science journal started in 1971, carries research papers, perspective essays and commentaries devoted to issues of social change and development in India, as well as Asia, Africa and Latin America, though not excluding relevant studies from Europe and North America. Its book reviews and review articles, covering publications from India and abroad, reflect on trends in scholarly thought in the global realm.
Even though the journal devotes considerable attention to publishing articles on the Indian development experience, it values global scholarship on social change. An international Editorial Board of eminent experts is actively involved in helping the journal to pursue its goals. Regular contributions from foreign scholars and an expanding global readership testify to this.
Sponsored by the Council for Social Development, the journal aims to analyse and assess ideas, policies and practices concerning the interests of marginalised groups. Social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of social change, especially in relation to changing conditions of social groups, are of interest to the journal. Issues of social development, especially health, education, social welfare, environment, urbanisation, migration, displacement, rural problems and human rights are particularly sought after areas. Articles on the rights of women, children, disabled, minorities, marginal farmers and unorganised workers are especially welcome. Through its periodic special thematic issues the journal attempts to capture the current state of academic discourse.
Social Change is a double-anonymised, refereed journal and seeks to maintain high standards of serious scholarship. It tries to ensure that empirically grounded contributions are theoretically informed and theoretical and policy essays are rooted in empirical evidence.
The quarterly journal, currently celebrating its Golden Jubilee, has a global readership among academia, social movements, NGOs and policymakers. Contributions are welcome from eminent thinkers and researchers as well as young, writers from India and abroad.
| Riaz Ahmad | Council for Social Development and University of Delhi, New Delhi, India |
| Anakshi Pal | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Susmita Mitra | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Gurmeet Kaur | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Monica Bruckmann | Federal Flomenance University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Gopal Guru | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Barbara Harriss-White | University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |
| Rounaq Jahan | University of Dhaka, Dhaka and Columbia University, New York, USA |
| Mark Juergensmeyer | University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Kalpana Kannabiran | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Manoranjan Mohanty | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Nitya Nanda | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Deepak Nayyar | Council for Social Development and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Imrana Qadeer | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Ma Rong | Peking University, Beijing, China |
| K B Saxena | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Mohamed Seedat | University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa |
| Kian Tajbakhsh | New York University and Columbia University, New York, USA |
| Jandhyala B G Tilak | Council for Social Development, New Delhi, India |
| Virginius Xaxa | University of Delhi, New Delhi, India |
| S Akbar Zaidi | Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan |
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