Aims and Scope. Focus
International Journal of Cultural Research is a project designed to provide full access to current cultural studies and a new type of scientific discourse that by-passes barriers traditionally dividing humanitarian and social science research from the natural sciences. The project goal is to enhance and promote the development of the modern theory of culture, to establish the basis and protocol of trans-disciplinary communications, and to offer a mechanism for renewing and generating such communications.
Recognizing the essential incompatibility of the ideas and methods of cultural studies in Russia and in the West, the project initiators regard the disparity as a constructive challenge rather than a dramatic gap in understanding and communication. The opportunity to engage researchers from Russia and abroad in meeting this creative challenge will have a positive influence on the field of cultural research, both as a fundamental science and as a cultural process.
An important part of the project is to establish and maintain regular dialogue, discussion, and information-sharing by means of internet sharing.
Approximately half of the core of International Journal of Cultural Research is devoted to monitoring the current state of cultural studies, with special attention paid to strategies for integrating Russian cultural studies into the general context of global cultural studies. Each section of the journal is devoted to a particular area of research, presenting both the current state and the prospects for elaborating the research, both in Russia and abroad.
International Journal of Cultural Research is published quarterly. All materials in the journal are subject to general publishing rules and procedures.
All materials appearing in the journal should adhere to the traditional standard practices for reference lists and citations.
Sections
- Cultural theory
- Cultural history
- Concepts of culture
- Cultural anthropology
- Psychology of culture
- Gender studies
- Visual studies
- Urban studies
- Art theory
- Art history
- Media theory
- Case study
- Reviews
