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Culture Unbound

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is an academic journal for border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. It serves as a forum with a wider scope than existing journals for cultural studies or other, more specific, subfields of cultural research and it is globally open to articles from all areas in this large field.

Culture Unbound was launched in June 2009 and since then it has published a large number of articles on a wide range of topics, including ten thematic sections edited by specially invited guest editors who contribute with a unique insight into the latest developments within their fields of research. The first two sections from 2009, entitled “What’s the Use of Cultural Research?” and “City of Signs/Signs of the City”, can be found in Volume 1, under Back Volumes. Here you can also download our second volume from 2010 with another five thematic sections as well as a number of individual articles. Featured themes of 2010 are: “Surveillance”; “Rural Media Spaces”; “Culture, Work and Emotion”; “Literary Public Spheres” and “Uses of the Past: Nordic Historic Cultures in a Comparative Perspective”.

In the spring of 2011 Culture Unbound published two thematic sections: “Fashion, Market, Materiality” edited by Therése Andersson and Creativity Unbound – Policies, Government and the Creative Industries by Can-Seng Ooi and Birgit Stöber. We have recently released a third section entitled “Exhibiting Europe: The Development of European Narratives in Museums, Collections and Exhibitions”. This time the editor, Stefan Krankenhagen, has gathered seven articles that in different ways discuss how the idea of a common European culture is envisioned in cultural practices and policies relating to the European Union. Featured authors are Stefan Krankenhagen; Torgeir Rinke Bangstad; Alexander Badenoch; Nanna Thylstrup; Kerstin Poehls; Ljiljana Radonic; Steffi de Jong and Wolfram Kaiser. On top of this we have also released three new independent articles by Hillevi Ganetz; Carsten Stage; Lena Ekelund and Håkan Jönsson.

You can read and download all articles from 2011 under Current Volume.

Culture Unbound is based at three vigorous Linköping University units that provide a unique Swedish profile, building new bridges between regional and global research traditions:

  • The Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden (ACSIS), with interdisciplinary transnational exchange.
  • The Department of Culture Studies (Tema Q), with interdisciplinary research and PhD education.
  • The Swedish Cultural Policy Research Observatory (SweCult), interface for cultural research and the cultural sector.

Culture Unbound is an open access, peer-reviewed academic journal, hosted by Linköping University Electronic Press. Initial support has been granted by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) and by Linköping University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The editors welcome proposals for articles, reviews and thematic topics.

If you want to edit a thematic section of Culture Unbound you are welcome to contact our executive editor, Martin Fredriksson: martin.fredriksson@liu.se. Read more in Culture Unbound’s Guidelines for Guest Editors.