Culture Unbound

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

In June 2009, Culture Unbound published its first set of articles. Those are now followed by a new thematic section entitled “City of Signs/Signs of the City”. Guest editor is Geoff Stahl and he has gathered two photo essays and a large number of articles that in different ways reflect on the city as an social and aesthetic phenomenon. Some of the contributors are Luc Pauwels, Christopher Kelen, Sophie Esmann Andersen, Anne Ellerup Nielsen, Christoph Jacke and Megan Hicks. 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.