[Bilimsel Haber] Welcome to Culture Unbound - a New Journal for Current Cultural Research!

[Gonul Pultar]

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*Welcome to/ Culture Unbound/, Volume 1, 2009*

*http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html*

 

/Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research/ is a new, 
refereed, open-access e-journal that seeks to be a forum for 
contemporary cultural research from a wide range of disciplinary and 
interdisciplinary areas.

We celebrate the birth of/ Culture Unbound/ with a first thematic 
section that focuses on the crucial question "What's the Use of Cultural 
Research?" Here, we have brought together a number of prominent authors 
to develop their different perspectives on the role and future of 
cultural research in a time when the political and academic landscape is 
shifting rapidly. The articles touch on some of the central conflicts 
for cultural research today: To what extent can cultural research be 
applied in different political and commercial contexts? Is the academic 
autonomy threatened by a growing emphasis on practical applicability and 
formal evaluations? What is the role of cultural research in academia 
today and in the future? Featured articles are:

 

*Tom O'Dell*:/ What's the Use of Culture?/

*Billy Ehn & Orvar Lofgren*:/ Ethnography in the Market Place/

*Yudhishthir Raj Isar*:/ Cultural Policy: Towards a Global Survey/

*Mikko Lehtonen*:/ Spaces and Places of Cultural Studies/

*Sharon Rider*:/ The Future of the European University: Liberal 
Democracy or Authoritarian Capitalism?/

 

In addition to this we also release a number of new articles on other 
topics:

 

*Murray Dineen*:/ Schoenberg and the Radical Economies of Harmonielehre/

*Andreas Gunnarsson*:/ The First Swede in Space: The Making of a Public 
Science Hero/

*Stefania Kalogeraki*:/ The Divergence Hypothesis in Modernization 
Theory across Three European Countries: The UK, Sweden and Greece/

 

You can access all articles for free at:

*http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/index.html*

 

We also welcome new article manuscripts in all areas of cultural 
research, as well as proposals for future theme sections.