Abstract
As of January 2017, Social Science Information/Information sur les sciences sociales will see a transition in editorship. David Jaclin (Université d’Ottawa) and Peter Wagner (Catalan Institute for Resarch and Advanced Studies – ICREA – and University of Barcelona) will succeed to Anne Rocha-Perazzo (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris).
The new editors would like to thank Anne for her important work and dedication over the years. As she rightly stated in her editorial for the 50th anniversary’s issue, SSI is an important publication in the research landscape of the social sciences. Over the past half century, SSI has made significant contributions to scholarship and has accompanied and fuelled many of the transformations that the social sciences have undergone.
It is with such a legacy at hand that we want to express our deep recognition for Anne’s work and commit ourselves to further pursue the mandate of SSI: to promote and publish interdisciplinary, programmatic research in the social sciences and provide a space for innovative theoretical as well as empirical contributions to issues that transcend the framework of the traditional disciplines.
Over the past half century our societies have changed considerably, and with them the social sciences. New challenges keep arising. At its beginnings, SSI promoted the internationalization of the social sciences, today there is a global scholarly conversation in which it is important to ensure that all voices are being heard. We see a further proliferation of methods that increases diversity, but in parallel we also witness a new convergence on key issues. Innovations keep being proposed in theoretical frameworks, but there is also a need to retrieve and refine time-honoured concepts. We will try our best to ensure that SSI will remain at the forefront of these debates.