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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 aims to serve 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 two thematic sections. The first section, “What’s the Use of Cultural Research?”, discusses the usefulness of cultural research against the backdrop of culturalisation, and the second “City of Signs/Signs of the City”, represents a cross-section of the research that is currently being done around urban sign systems in a number of cities around the globe. This first Volume of Culture Unbound can be found under Back Volumes.

We have recently published a new thematic section entitled “Surveillance”. This time our guest editor Toby Miller has gathered a number of articles that give different perspectives on how matters of Surveillance and Visibility has had a growing impact on global society over the last decade. The topics range from the concrete monitoring of physical space to the surveillance regime’s more implicit consequences for the contemporary cultural landscape. Featured authors are Mark Andrejevic, Jessica Behm, Kelly Gates, Henry Krips and Ruhi Khan. You can read and download them all 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.