Subjectivity inevitably involves the human subject It has been an important concept for research  and for intervening in social and political life  since the 1970s The concern over the meaning of subjectivity has spawned debate across a range of disciplinary fields including studies of the ‘political subject’  ‘white subjectivity’  ‘gendered subjectivities’  ‘workplace subjectivity’  ‘colonial subjectivities’ and ‘embodied subjectivity’