Public Culture

Public Culture. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Transnational Cultural Studies. From the website presentation :

About the Journal
Public Culture is a reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and Spring for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by Duke University Press.

In the twenty years of its existence, Public Culture has established itself as a prize-winning, field-defining cultural studies journal. Public Culture seeks a critical understanding of the global cultural flows and the cultural forms of the public sphere which define the late twentieth century. As such, the journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks.

Intellectuals, activists, and artists, as well as both well-established and younger scholars, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture. Among recent contributors are:

Asef Bayat: "Islamism and the Politics of Fun"
Dipesh Chakrabarty: "The Public Life of History: An Argument out of India"
George Chauncey: "How History Mattered: Sodomy Law and Marriage Reform in the United States"
Joshua Comaroff: "Terror and Territory: Guantánamo and the Space of Contradiction"
Achille Mbembe: "Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa"
Michael Watts: "Baudelaire over Berea, Simmel over Sandton?"

Public Culture has recently published special issues on The Public Life of History, Cultures of Democracy, and 100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk: A Celebration of W. E. B. Du Bois.

Editorial Vision
Public Culture reports and reflects current research on: the cultural transformations associated with cities, media and consumption, and the cultural flows that draw cities, societies and states into larger transnational relationships and global political economies.
Public Culture seeks to:
- establish an international network of scholars committed to research on public culture issues and debates, and on such cosmopolitan cultural forms as cinema, sport, television and video, restaurants, domestic tourism, advertising, fiction, architecture, and museums.
- explore the cultural implications of such processes as migration, the internationalization of fiction, and the construction of alternative modernities.
- situate these forms, flows, and processes in their historical and political contexts.
- publish excerpts from ongoing scholarly work (including recent ph.d. dissertations), news clippings and media material as well as correspondence from our readers.
- announce recent publications, and encourage network members to facilitate their acquisition or exchange, particularly across national boundaries, for colleagues who have problems with foreign currency.
- encourage contributions from intellectuals both inside and outside the academy.