Aims and Scopes of the Journal

 

The intellectual stance of New Cultural Frontiers can be captured in the themes and issues that have been faced and investigated by the Research Committee 47 of International Sociological Association (ISA). New Cultural Frontiers will focus on socio-cultural and transnational practices, with particular attention paid to the relationship between social actors and society, both at global and local level. One of the concerns of New Cultural Frontiers is to address the crisis of general sociological paradigms and structuralist approaches. These concerns have left us with an understanding of society that is appearing to be more and more de-structurated, and in search of new theoretical approaches and questions that can address this fragmentation. New Cultural Frontiers hopes to be a venue for speaking about the changes that are occurring in theoretical reflection and empirical work. A particular interest is to be a conduit for the development of a new cultural paradigm that will be able to reinvigorate sociology. At the same time, the role of sociologist in the society will also be a preoccupation of New Cultural Frontiers, creating a publication venue for a public sociology and its importance for formation of new sociologists within the academy. Privileged topics are: social and cultural movements, conflict, new research on subjectivity, social change, transnationalism and globalisation

The journal is open to both theoretical and empirical contributions. Every issue has a central topic, decided by the Editorial board.

The first issue has been officially launched in July 2010 at the XXVII ISA World Congress of Sociology in Gothenburg.

 

Sections.

Each issue is composed of three sections:

a) Opening article – article of an invited well-known scholar (preferably a sociologist) that will open the discussion on the theme proposed by the editorial board. For example, the opening article of the first issue about “Sociology Upside Down: from Systems to Subjects” is written by Alain Touraine.

b) Articles – is the main body of the Journal. We try to mantain a regional and gender priority at all issues, so we hope to have in each number at least one article from each region.

c) Book reviews – reviews of books that are of salient interest in different countries, according to the topics of the Journal. See the guidelines for Book reviews.

 

Frequency and call for papers/visibility.

The Journal is published twice a year. The Call for Papers will be distributed among the International Sociological Association website and Bulletins, the National Sociological Associations and many other Academic Networks. Every regional co-editor is in charge of his own area to distribute the Journal call for papers and to promote it. After the publication, the issue will be filed in the most important on-line Academic and Universities libraries all over the world.

 

Open-access.

New Cultural Frontiers is published on-line, with its own website: www.newculturalfrontiers.org. Articles are open-access and can be downloaded by everyone, after a registration, in order to reach as much interested reader as possible, on the principle that making research freely available supports the global exchange of knowledge. New Cultural Frontiers content is published with a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) assigned.