About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research is an international open-access peer-reviewed journal that publishes emergent research on culture and politics.

We are interested in novel perspectives, methods and approaches on the big questions of the present, including but not limited to developments with digital technologies and cultures; climate change; infrastructure politics; gender and inequality; transformations in science and knowledge; automation; rising militarism, and changes in media and cultural economies.

The journal seeks to be an arena for a cross-disciplinary dialogue and welcomes contributions from a wide range of fields including media and communication studies, critical data- and algorithm studies, gender studies, history, social anthropology, the environmental humanities, human geography, cultural studies, science and technology studies and related fields.

Culture Unbound is published digitally in Open Access. All articles and thematic sessions are freely available under Volumes. We have never had and will not have any publishing fees. Culture Unbound uses double-blind peer-review. All submission include an anonymised version of the manuscript, which following preliminary review by the editorial team, is reviewed by two referees who remain anonymous to the author. 

Since it was launched in June 2009, in addition to independent articles from the wide field of cultural research, Culture Unbound has published thematic issues on emergent questions and societal issues. 

Culture Unbound is based at Linköping University and supported financially by the 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 the editorial team at: cu@ikos.liu.se.

Peer Review Process

Culture Unbound uses double-blind peer review. All submissions should include an anonymised version of the manuscript, which following preliminary review by the editorial team, are reviewed by two referees who remain anonymous to the author. The review process normally takes between two and six months.

Archiving

The published articles of Culture Unbound is preserved by the National Library of Sweden.