№ 1(62) 2026: Cultural studies in the Scientific and educational space and political Discourse: theoretical and methodological foundations and applied practices
Guest editors:
Astafyeva Olga Nikolaevna, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Director and Professor of the Scientific and Educational Center “Theory and Technologies of Management in the field of culture, education and Science” IGSU Presidential Academy (Moscow)
The opposition of scientific theory and cultural history (the field of academic knowledge is fundamental cultural studies) and socio–cultural technologies and discourses (the field of applied cultural studies is project development, political discourses, educational practices) reinforces the gap between theory and practice. Currently, in the context of increasing competition from related disciplines (sociology, anthropology, psychology, etc.), the consequences of this crisis are expanding due to an increasing shift towards evaluating effectiveness and requesting indicators of the usefulness of practical activities.
This issue of the «International Journal of Cultural Research» is devoted to understanding the possibilities of cultural studies as a post-non-classical scientific knowledge, on the one hand, providing the development of an interdisciplinary methodology that is so necessary today to understand and explain the dynamics of modern culture with its “explosions” and “crises”; on the other hand, it forms dialogic discourses that act as a “guide” and “translator” knowledge about the world into the understandable language of cultural studies in the field of education and politics.
Cultural community in search of a way out of the crisis, the cultural community has focused its efforts not only on finding differences in cultures, but also on discovering similarities in classical and post-classical interpretations. Thus, culture, recognized as an open self-developing system, is revealed through the problem-subject field of cultural studies as a complex integrity, represented today in all the richness of its integrative connections with the natural and social worlds.
In this issue, we invite you to understand the functions of cultural studies, which performs an active two-way relationship between the field of fundamental research (theory and history of culture) and public practice, focuses on the field of creative economy (“cultural production”), technology (“digital culture”) and technologies (“educational practices”, “network communications”).
Based on these characteristics, this thematic issue of the journal can be considered as updating the discussion about the possibilities and prospects for the development of cultural studies as a science and as the scientific basis of education responsible for the formation of personal culture and the culture of society.
Three thematic areas are proposed for the preparation of scientific articles in the issue.
- Methodology and technology of cultural research:
- New knowledge that complicates the organization and structure of cultural science;
- Moving towards a scientific paradigm in cultural studies that actualizes methodological approaches and relevant research tools for the formation of dynamic cultural sustainability in the “digital environment”;
- The expansion of cognitive activity with increasing attention to the methodology of interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, integrative and transitive research in the context of the ideas of post-non-classical science.
- Cultural studies in the education system:
- A new round of interest in cultural sciences and a discussion about the principles of institutionalization of cultural studies;
- Terminological differences in the definition of cultural studies in the context of disciplinary competition;
- The methodology of cultural studies is the internal support and basis of socialization and inculturation, the formation of a worldview;
- Social “demand” for professional cultural scientists in the context of disciplinary competition, new forms of cultural production, and the “creative economy”.
- Cultural studies and political discourse:
- The problem of choosing an adequate methodological approach to the development of a consciously directed strategy of cultural policy;
- Interdisciplinary solutions of cultural studies, interpretation and conceptualization of meanings for understanding and researching social and cultural in the context of geopolitical transformations;
- Technologies of applied cultural studies: design and projective-predictive potential.
