European Journal of Cultural Studies
European Journal of Cultural Studies is a major international peer-reviewed journal that publishes well-theorized empirical research from a wide variety of geographical locations and disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and the social sciences. Originally founded in Europe, and now edited from the Netherlands, Hong Kong and the UK, the journal has a broad-ranging view of cultural studies, developing new questions and innovative research, and mapping its ongoing transformations. The common denominator for the work published is in critical engagement with how power relations are (re)produced in everyday practices of meaning-making in the current conjuncture. They might concern gender, class, race and ethnicity, sexuality, sexual preference, disability, and other macro or micro sites of political struggle.
The topics covered by European Journal of Cultural Studies cover a wide range. Areas include (among others): popular cultural forms and practices; consumer cultures; media, film and television culture; post-colonial criticism; cultural policy; citizenship, sexualities, youth culture and class relations; music; intersectional constructions of identity; populism; creative industries; politics; ecology; technology; social media.
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THE KIND OF PAPERS WE WISH TO PUBLISH
We publish articles of up to 8,000 words including references.
Whilst cultural studies can sometimes be understood as a very generic term, we are not particularly interested in publishing studies of culture that focus exclusively on single objects. This is partly because such work is done in other disciplinary areas (such as the study of art and literature), and more importantly because we feel the study of culture and cultural forms always needs wider contextualization to include how objects, practices or ideas are inserted in relations of power.
We expect authors to move beyond their own interpretation or reading of a cultural text, object or practice, by including a clear and convincing account of their approach and methodology used in selecting materials (whether texts, interviews, policy documents or other types of data), and on how these materials are analysed. Discourse analysis, visual and narrative analysis, grounded theory and ethnography are for instance among the methods of analysis that might be used. We are primarily interested in how meaning is constructed and in how power relations are produced in the contemporary conjuncture. Therefore, whilst we expect an empirical component, however broadly conceived, we also require an engagement with social and cultural theory.
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CULTURAL COMMONS
Our short-form ‘Cultural Commons’ section provides a space for imaginative engagement with salient issues for cultural studies. It usually publishes pieces between 1500-3000 words that are in keeping with our broad-ranging conception of cultural studies as rooted in the power dynamics of lived experience. These pieces are published more quickly than regular articles.
Read more here:https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmscontent/ECS/Cultural%20Commons%20EjCS%20info%202023-1682055217.pdf
Proposals for Cultural Commons articles and book reviews should be sent to: the editors Jian Lin (antlinjian@gmail.com) and Siao Yuong Fong (s.fong6@lancaster.ac.uk)
| Yiu Fai Chow | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
| Jilly Kay | Loughborough University, UK |
| Jo Littler | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Anamik Saha | University of Leeds, UK |
| Siao Yuong Fong | King’s College London, UK |
| Jian Lin | Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| Erin Bell | University of Lincoln, UK |
| Linda Kopitz | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Jessica Martin | University of Leeds, UK |
| Annelot Prins | Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Pertti Alasuutari | Tampere University, Finland |
| Ann Gray | University of Lincoln, UK |
| Joke Hermes | InHolland University, Netherlands |
| Mark Andrejevic | Pomona College, USA |
| Ien Ang | University of Western Sydney, Nepean, Australia |
| Yildiz Atasoy | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Hermann Bausinger | Ludwig-Uhland-Institut, Tübingen, Germany |
| Tony Bennett | University of Western Sydney, Australia |
| Goran Bolin | Sodertorn University, Sweden |
| David Buckingham | Loughborough University, UK |
| Chua Beng Huat | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Nick Couldry | London School of Economics, UK |
| Jeroen de Kloet | University of Amsterdam |
| Abram de Swaan | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Norman Denzin | University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, USA |
| Alexander Dhoest | University of Antwerp, Belgium |
| Linda Duits | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Johan Fornäs | Södertörn University, Sweden |
| Simon Frith | University of Edinburgh, UK |
| Christine Geraghty | University of Glasgow, UK |
| David Hesmondhalgh | University of Leeds, UK |
| Roman Horak | University of Vienna, Austria |
| Ksenija V. Horvat | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Laura Huttunen | University of Tampere, Finland |
| Eeva Jokinen | University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Giselinde Kuipers | KU Leuven University, Belgium |
| Maureen McNeil | Lancaster University, UK |
| David Morley | Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK |
| Elspeth Probyn | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Ali Qadir | University of Tampere, Finland |
| Gilbert B. Rodman | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Kim Schroeder | Roskilde University, Denmark |
| Ellen Seiter | University of Southern California, United States, USA |
| Jon Stratton | University of South Australia, Australia |
| Anna Lisa Tota | University of Rome III, Italy |
| Imogen Tyler | Lancaster University, UK |
| Liesbet van Zoonen | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Rainer Winter | University of Klagenfurt, Austria |
| Handel Kashope Wright | University of British Columbia, Canada |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.