Thesis Eleven
Thesis Eleven publishes theories and theorists, surveys, critiques, debates and interpretations. The journal also brings together articles on place, region, or problems in the world today, encouraging civilizational analysis and work on alternative modernities from fascism and communism to Japan and Southeast Asia. Marxist in origin, post-Marxist by necessity, the journal is vitally concerned with change as well as with tradition.
Since it was established, the journal has published the work of some of the world's leading theorists including Niklas Luhmann, Alain Touraine, Immanuel Wallerstein, Martin Jay, Richard Rorty and Agnes Heller.
International Coverage
The identity of the journal, like its location, is multiple: European in the continental sense, but also transatlantic and colonial. The journal translates European social theory, mainstream and marginal, and it also takes theory from the margins of the world system to the centres.
A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Thesis Eleven is multidisciplinary, reaching across the social sciences and liberal arts (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, geography, cultural studies, literature and politics) and cultivating a diversity of critical theories of modernity across both the German and French senses of critical theory.
Review Section
Each issue of the journal contains a review section including review articles and reviews of the latest publications in social theory.
Student Subscription Rate
Students can subscribe at a 30% discount on the individual rate. Please contact our subscription department for details.
"Thesis Eleven is read around the world, as an exemplification of cosmopolitan theorizing at its best. Always original, always interdisciplinary, it has developed a unique, and uniquely valued, voice in global intellectual life." Jeffrey C. Alexander, Yale University, USA
"Thesis Eleven is a well established and internationally recognized journal in social and political theory; it publishes excellent and innovative papers of an interdisciplinary nature." Gerard Delanty, University of Sussex, UK
"Thesis Eleven is one of the few indispensable journals for those concerned with the contemporary social world and with the situation of social theory." Chamsy el-Ojeili, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Electronic Access:
Thesis Eleven is available to browse online.
Thesis Eleven (Thesis 11), peer reviewed and published quarterly, is multidisciplinary, reaching across the social sciences (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, geography, cultural studies, literature and politics) and cultivating diverse critical theories of modernity. Reflecting the broad scope of social theory it encourages civilizational analysis on a wide range of alternative modernities and takes critical theory from the margins of the world system to its centre.
Established in 1996 Thesis Eleven is a truly international and interdisciplinary peer reviewed journal. Innovative and authoritative the journal produces articles, reviews and debate with a central focus on theories of society, culture, and politics and the understanding of modernity.
The purpose of this journal is to encourage the development of social theory in the broadest sense. We view social theory as both multidisciplinary and plural, reaching across social sciences and liberal arts (sociology, anthropology, philosophy, politics, geography, cultural studies and literature) and cultivating a diversity of critical theories of modernity across both the German and French senses of critical theory.
The identity of the journal, like its location, is multiple: European in the continental sense, but also transatlantic and colonial. The journal translates European social theory, mainstream and marginal, and it also takes theory from the margins of the world system to the centres.
Social theory progresses through substantive concerns as well as formal or textural endeavour; the journal therefore publishes theories, and theorists, surveys, critiques, debates and interpretations, but also papers to do with place, region, or problems in the world today, encouraging civilizational analysis and work on alternative modernities from fascism and communism to Japan and Southeast Asia. Marxist in origin, post-Marxist by necessity, the journal is vitally concerned with change as well as with tradition.
| Peter Beilharz | Sichuan University, China |
| Rachel Busbridge | Australian Catholic University, Australia |
| Howard Prosser | Monash University, Australia |
| Alonso Casanueva Baptista | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Tin Luong | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Timothy Andrews | La Trobe University, Australia |
| James Dorahy | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Julian Joseph Potter | Australian Catholic University, Australia |
| Ira Raja | University of Delhi, India |
| Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Sian Supski | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Jeffrey C. Alexander | Yale University, USA |
| Zygmunt Bauman | University of Leeds, UK and Warsaw University, Poland |
| Dominique Bouchet | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Craig Calhoun | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Luis David SJ | Ateneo de Manila Law School, Philippines |
| Mark Davis | University of Leeds, UK |
| Eduardo De La Fuente | University of Wollongong, Australia |
| Gerard Delanty | University of Sussex, UK |
| Chamsy el-Ojeili | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand |
| Austin Harrington | University of Leeds, UK |
| Agnes Heller | New School for Social Research, New York, USA |
| Barry Hindess | Australian National University, Canberra, Australia |
| Trevor Hogan | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Axel Honneth | J W Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany |
| Martin Jay | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Hans Joas | Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany |
| Joel S Kahn | La Trobe University, Australia |
| Krishan Kumar | University of Virginia, USA |
| Udaya Kumar | University of Delhi |
| Fuyuki Kurasawa | York University, Canada |
| Vassilis Lambropoulos | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| María Pía Lara | U AM-I, Mexico |
| John Lechte | Macquarie University, Australia |
| Simon Marginson | Oxford University, UK |
| György Markus | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Tessa Morris-Suzuki | Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Australia |
| Maria Celia Paoli | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Carole Pateman | University of California, Los Angeles, USA |
| Orlando Patterson | Harvard University, USA |
| Louis A. Ruprecht, Jr. | Georgia State University, UK |
| Donald Sassoon | Queen Mary, University of London, UK |
| Priti Singh | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| Margaret R Somers | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA |
| George Steinmetz | University of Michigan, USA |
| Ivan Szelenyi | Yale University, USA |
| Keith Tester | University of Hull, UK |
| Alain Touraine | CADIS, Paris, France |
| Julian Triado | Melbourne, Australia |
| Peter Vale | Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa |
| Loic Wacquant | University of California, USA |
| Peter Wagner | University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Immanuel Wallerstein | Yale University, USA |
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/the to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. Remember you can log in to the submission site at any time to check on the progress of your paper through the peer review process.
Sage disseminates high-quality research and engaged scholarship globally, and we are committed to diversity and inclusion in publishing. We encourage submissions from a diverse range of authors from across all countries and backgrounds.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Thesis Eleven will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this Journal. Open Access options are available - see section 3.3 below.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Funding
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 Information required for completing your submission
5.2 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
1. What do we publish?
Before submitting your manuscript to Thesis Eleven, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Thesis Eleven publishes original scholarly articles, Review Essays and Book Reviews. The journal also regularly produces special issues and special sections.
All manuscripts are considered for publication on the understanding that they have not been previously published and are not under consideration elsewhere.
Authors should supply a biography of 50-100 words and a coversheet along with their manuscript which includes their full name, institutional address, and email address.
The main manuscript types are as follows:
1.2.1 Scholarly Articles
Articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words in length (inclusive of notes and references). However, longer as well as shorter articles will be considered if justified by the content of the contribution.
If you are interested in submitting lectures, interviews, and translations, please contact the Editorial Office at thesis11@latrobe.edu.au.
All articles require an abstract of up to 150 words and five keywords.
For more information on manuscript formatting, please review the Preparing your manuscript section
1.2.2 Review Essays
Review Essays are normally between 3,500 and 5,000 words long (inclusive of notes and references) with an abstract of up to 150 words and five keywords.
Review Essays must conform to the formatting requirements detailed below.
Review Essays can be of a single important book or a series of books on a particular topic. The editorial collective also welcomes other types of reviews, including more sweeping reviews of a field or emergent area.
They are commented on by editorial board members and associate editors and occasionally blind-refereed.
If you are interested in submitting a Review Essay, please contact the Reviews Editor at bookreviews@thesiseleven.com.
1.2.3 Book reviews
Book Reviews are normally between 1,500 and 2,500 words in length.
If you are interested in submitting a Book Review, please contact the Reviews Editor at bookreviews@thesiseleven.com
1.2.4 Special Issues / Special Sections
The above (1.2.1) also applies to all special issue and special section articles, and these articles are subject to our usual peer review policy.
We welcome proposals from prospective special issue editors on a range of topics that fit within our aims and scope.
Special issue/special section proposals should be emailed to the editorial office at thesis11@latrobe.edu.au. We welcome initial inquiries as well as formal proposals. Please refer to our Collections page for more information.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources. SAGE Author Services also offers authors a variety of ways to improve and enhance their article including English language editing, plagiarism detection, and video abstract and infographic preparation.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online.
SAGE does not permit the use of author-suggested (recommended) reviewers at any stage of the submission process, be that through the web-based submission system or other communication.
Reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Our policy is that reviewers should not be assigned to a paper if:
- The reviewer is based at the same institution as any of the co-authors
- The reviewer is based at the funding body of the paper
- The author has recommended the reviewer
- The reviewer has provided a personal (e.g. Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail) email account and an institutional email account cannot be found after performing a basic Google search (name, department and institution).
Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
- Made a substantial contribution to the concept or design of the work; or acquisition, analysis or interpretation of data,
- Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
- Approved the version to be published,
- Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section. Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.
Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors. For more information see the policy on Use of ChatGPT and generative AI tools.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
2.3.1 Third party submissions
Where an individual who is not listed as an author submits a manuscript on behalf of the author(s), a statement must be included in the Acknowledgements section of the manuscript and in the accompanying cover letter. The statements must:
- Disclose this type of editorial assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input
- Identify any entities that paid for this assistance
- Confirm that the listed authors have authorized the submission of their manuscript via third party and approved any statements or declarations, e.g. conflicting interests, funding, etc.
Where appropriate, SAGE reserves the right to deny consideration to manuscripts submitted by a third party rather than by the authors themselves.
Thesis Eleven requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
2.5 Declaration of conflicting interests
Thesis Eleven encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Thesis Eleven and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway.
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Thesis Eleven offers optional open access publishing via the Sage Choice programme and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish open access either discounted or free of charge depending on the agreement with Sage. Find out if your institution is participating by visiting Open Access Agreements at Sage. For more information on Open Access publishing options at Sage please visit Sage Open Access. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit Sage’s Author Archiving and Re-Use Guidelines and Publishing Policies.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
Thesis Eleven does not currently accept supplemental files.
Thesis Eleven adheres to the SAGE Harvard reference style. View the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file.
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Thesis Eleven is hosted on Sage Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/the to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the Journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
If you have any questions, please contact the editorial office thesis11@latrobe.edu.au
5.1 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway.
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to the Thesis Eleven editorial office at thesis11@latrobe.edu.au