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Empirical. Interdisciplinary. International.

Historical Social Research (HSR) is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the fields of historical-social science research and empirical quantitative as well as qualitative social research – it has been published by GESIS since 1976.

Scope
"Formalization means a variety of procedures that match descriptions of events, structures, and processes with explicit models of those events, structures, and processes. Formal methods do not necessarily involve quantification or computing; analyses of linguistic, spatial, or temporal structure, for example, often proceed quite formally without computers and without any direct intervention of mathematics."
(Charles Tilly, 1929-2008)

The HSR is user-, methods-, and data-orientated, with the journal focusing on inter- and transdisciplinary research. An international editorial board is in charge of the content and, thanks to close cooperation with the network partners and user organizations within the field of historical social research, the journal participates intensively in current research discussions.

In 2011 the HSR has been classified by ERIH / European Science Foundation as an international top-journal (INT1 Sub-Category) “with high visibility and influence among researchers in the various research domains in different countries, regularly cited all over the world”.

The Newest Issue: 49.1 - Geographies of Nuclear Energy

Special Issue– Geographies of Nuclear Energy in Past and Present. International Studies. (Alicia Gutting, Per Högselius, Teva Meyer & Melanie Mbah)

Contributions
  • Christopher R. Hill & Saima Nakuti Ashipala: “Follow the Yellowcake Road”: Historical Geographies of Namibian Uranium from the Rössing Mine. [abstract]
  • Michiel Bron: The Uranium Club: Big Oil’s Involvement in Uranium Mining and the Formation of an Infamous Uranium Cartel. [abstract]
  • Matteo Gerlini: Nuclear Settlers in a European Land? The Making of Centre Commune de Recherche in Ispra. [abstract]
  • Alicia Gutting & Per Högselius: Nuclearized River Basins: Conflict and Cooperation along the Rhine, Danube, and Elbe. [abstract]
  • Christian Götter: Accepted to Cool: Conflicts about Cooling Technologies for Riverside Nuclear Power Plants. [abstract]
  • Louis Fagon: Who Is Affected? Defining Nuclear Territories and Their Borders: A Historical Perspective on the Nuclearization of the Rhône River from the 1970s to the 1990s. [abstract]
  • Jan-Henrik Meyer: Nuclear Power and Geography: How the European Communities Failed to Regulate the Siting of Nuclear Installations at Borders in the 1970s and 1980s. [abstract]
  • Melanie Mbah & Sophie Kuppler: Governing Nuclear Waste in the Long Term: On the Role of Place. [abstract]
  • Teva Meyer: Bordering Nuclearity: Very Low-level Radioactive Wastes’ Clearance and the Production of Spatial Nuclearities in Germany. [abstract]
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Contact persons

HSR Team
hsr@gesis.org

hsr[at]gesis•org