This special issue focuses on the connection between processes of change in scientific practice on the one hand and socio-ecological transformation processes on the other. Among other things, it asks how science can become sustainable in a transformative sense with regard to its own practical, institutional, and epistemological prerequisites, as well as its modes of work, knowledge, and social relations.

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The special issue focuses on genealogy and gender by examining the formation of genealogies as a critical engagement with gendered and generational relations from historical, historiographical, theoretical, and empirical perspectives: ranging from debates about intellectual legacies and the role of archives to the dynamics of transmission, suppression, and reconstruction of gendered and social traditions.

Call for papers is open, please submit your abstract by 12 April 2026