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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 various subfields of cultural research and it is globally open to articles from all areas in this large field.

Since it was launched in June 2009, Culture Unbound has published a large number of articles on a wide range of topics. Some of them are single articles, but the core of our publication consists of thematic sections on particularly interesting and relevant issues. These are edited by specially invited guest editors who contribute with a unique insight into the latest developments within their fields of research. The first four volumes contain 15 thematic sections: ‘What’s the Use of Cultural Research?’; ’City of Signs/Signs of the City’; ‘Surveillance’; ‘Rural Media Spaces’; ‘Culture, Work and Emotion’; ‘Literary Public Spheres’; ‘Uses of the Past: Nordic Historic Cultures in a Comparative Perspective’; ‘Fashion, Market, Materiality’; ‘Creativity Unbound – Policies, Government and the Creative Industries’; ‘Exhibiting Europe: The Development of European Narratives in Museums, Collections and Exhibitions’; ‘Shanghai Modern: The Future in Microcosm?’, ‘Culturalisation at an Australian-Swedish Crossroads’; ‘Self-Care Translated into Practice’ and ‘Objectification, Measurement and Standardization’. They can all be found under Back Volumes.

The volume of 2013 opened with two thematic sections that derived from the conference ‘Current Issues in European Cultural Studies’ which was held in Norrköping in June 2011. The first section, ”Reports and Reflections from The Field: Current Issues in European Cultural Studies”, is edited by Ferda Keskin and consists of five reports that document the conference’s attempt to map the current state of cultural studies in different European regions. The second is a more conventional thematic section, entitled ‘Feminist Cultural Studies’ and edited by Fanny Ambjörnsson and Hillevi Ganetz that focuses on the meeting between feminism and cultural studies. Together they reflect some of the heterogeneity of the contemporary field of cultural research that also characterises Culture Unbound’s publishing practices. You can read and download all new articles under Current Volume.

Over the coming year Culture Unbound will raise many interesting subjects. A number of other themes we have in the pipeline for 2013 and 2014 deal with questions such as ‘Communicating Culture in Practice’; ‘Popular Culture’, ‘Protests and Social Movements’, ‘Therapeutic Cultures’ , ‘Capitalism: Current Crises and Cultural Critique’, ‘Sustainabilities’, ‘Changing Orders of Knowledge: Encyclopaedias in Transition’, Writing at Borders’, ‘Concurrences: Archives and Voices in Postcolonial Places’ and ‘The Instability of Intellectual Property’. Apart from the thematic sections we also publish independent articles on a whole range of topics within the wide field of cultural research.

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 annual funding comes from Linköping University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Swedish Research Council and the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social 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.