The journal Innovation has launched a special issue on “Europeanness in a Globalized World: Relevance, Reflections, and Reconfigurations.”
This issue invites scholars to critically reflect on the meaning of Europeanness in an age of global interconnection, planetary crises, and shifting academic landscapes. With growing contributions from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and beyond, the journal seeks to explore how a “European” orientation can be rethought in light of global flows of knowledge, power, and people.
Key questions include:
- What does “Europe” mean in contemporary social science, especially from non-European perspectives?
- How can European-focused research engage inclusively with global scholarship?
- What colonial, postcolonial, or geopolitical legacies shape the category of “Europe”?
- Should academic journals rethink regional identities in an era of digital and decentered knowledge production?
- What theoretical and methodological innovations can reposition Europe in global comparative frameworks?
Interdisciplinary scope:
Submissions are especially welcome on themes such as governance, democracy, inequality, sustainability, digital transformation, migration, transregional collaboration, and science-technology-society relations.
The editors particularly encourage contributions offering deconstructive critiques as well as constructive visions for the future of “Europeanness.”
This is a unique opportunity to join a global conversation and shape the future of social science.
You can submit your abstract until the end of October here.