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1 Critical Hist. Stud. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/chstd1 and id is 1 raw text is: Introducing Critical Historical Studies e launch Critical Historical Studies with a sense that critical under- standings of politics, culture, economy, and social life need renewal and deepening.' Over the past few decades, most critical thinking in the humanities and social sciences has utilized the tools of the cultural or lin- guistic turns as a privileged analytic lens and has broadly focused on questions of identity-that is, on inequities structured by gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and postcoloniality. An earlier style of critique, largely grounded in Marxist anal- ysis of class inequities, has dwindled proportionally. We recognize the important analytical, political, and moral gains achieved by the cultural and linguistic turns. Yet it seems increasingly clear that the problems besetting the contemporary world cannot be grasped adequately without renewed attention to questions of po- litical economy. Since the 1970s, during the very period when the humanities and social sciences were caught up in the linguistic and cultural turns, world capi- talism has undergone fundamental and irreversible transformations-transforma- tions that pose profound challenges to our understanding of both the past and the present. Critical Historical Studies aims to develop an innovative approach to historical transformations that is adequate to this challenge, an approach strongly influenced by a critical appropriation of Marx but that remains in open and vig- orous dialogue with other theoretical currents. The journal encourages systematic exploration of connections between cultural and political change on the one hand and overarching transformations in socioeconomic contexts on the other. The current deep crisis of the world economy has significantly revived the question of capitalism in contemporary scholarly and popular debates, for example, about the legitimacy of neoliberalism, the threat of ecological crises and global climate change, or the causes and consequences of widening economic inequal- 1. The idea of launching Critical Historical Studies arose during a conference held at the University of Chicago in December 2011 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Social Theory Workshop, a faculty and graduate student forum led from its inception by Moishe Postone and William Sewell. Thomas Dodman, Parker Everett, and Stacie Kent, the three graduate students who conceptualized, planned, and organized the conference, felt that the workshop had, over the years, generated a distinctive yet insuffi- ciently articulated theoretical approach to historical questions, one that needed to be fleshed out in inten- sive discussion. Critical Historical Studies represents, among other things, an effort to widen and deepen the ever-branching conversations begun at the conference. Critical Historical Studies (Spring 2014). © 2014 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 2326-4462/2014/0101-0001$10.00

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