Journal Guide

Crime Science is a peer-reviewed open access journal published under the brand SpringerOpen.Crime Science is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal, with an applied focus. The journal's main focus is research articles and systematic reviews that reflect the growing cooperation of a variety of fields, including environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics, and urban planning, on improving the detection, prevention, and understanding of crime and disorder. Crime Science will publish theoretical articles that are relevant to the field, for example, approaches that integrate theories from different disciplines. The goal of the journal is to broaden the scientific base for the understanding, analysis, and control of crime and disorder. It is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policy-makers with an interest in crime reduction. It will also publish short contributions on timely topics including crime patterns, technological advances for detection and prevention, and analytical techniques, and on the crime reduction applications of research from a wide range of fields.

Crime, Media, Culture is a peer reviewed, international journal providing a vehicle for scholars working at the intersections of criminological and cultural inquiry. It promotes a broad cross-disciplinary understanding of the relationship between crime, criminal justice, media and culture. The journal explores a range of media forms (including traditional media, new and alternative media, and surveillance technologies) and has a special focus on cultural criminology and its concerns with image, representation, meaning and style. While CMC embraces submissions across a range of research perspectives and methodological orientations, CMC encourages especially work that develops cultural, critical, and qualitative understandings of the crime, media, culture nexus.

Critical Arts Call for PapersOf the early issues dating from 1980 Ntongela Masilela observed that Critical Arts was coterminous with the awakening of the historical consciousness that the practice of cultural studies could facilitate in securing the demise of apartheid. He concluded that 8220;This monumental undertaking is evident on practically every page of Critical Arts8221;. Seminal authors who lent their intellectual labour to the early Critical Arts Project included JM Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink and later Stuart Hall, Tom O'Regan, Ian Ang and Handel Kashope Wright, amongst many others. Masilela continued, 8220;On the eve of the fall of apartheid these and other scholars were engaging 8220;with the intersection of Marxism, race, representation and feminism in an attempt to create new epistemologies8221; (in Denzin, N. Cultural Studies: A Research Volume, Vol 5, 2000). Ioan Davies wrote in Border/lines (1985/6), 8220;Critical Arts's nervousness about what stance would be appropriate to coming to terms with culture in Africa seems to be perfectly in tune with anyone's nervousness with coming to terms with Africa8221;. The early contributions can be accessed via the Michigan State University eJournals project: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/Critical Arts examined the relationship between texts and contexts, cultural formations and popular forms of expression, mainly in the Third World. After 1994, Critical Arts repositioned itself in the South-North nexus, developing the transdisciplinary epistemologies mentioned by Masilela, but now in conjunction with globally seminal scholars and transnational conceptual trajectories, again with the nervousness identified by Davies. Critical Arts interprets cultural studies as a form of praxis, of experience, and of strategic intervention. How does one explain the contradictions, the opposing ir/rationalities, the fracturing of logics which so brutally feed political solidarities at any cost? The exigencies of being under fire make it hard to find the discursive space in which participants can catch enough breath to speak the truths of their own participation. Our journal seeks to profile those approaches to issues that are amenable to a cultural studies-derived intervention, on the basis that `culture' is a marker of deeper continuities than the immediate conflicts under the fire of which so many must somehow live their lives. They must, perhaps, restore the vision of earlier theorists and historians, for whom `culture' was a kind of synthesis arising from the contradictions between human society and the politics of nations. Under the pressures of globalization, this kind of understanding becomes more relevant at every turn.The journal is rigorously peer reviewed and aims to shape theory on the topics it covers. Cutting edge theorisation (supported by empirical evidence) rather than the reporting of formulaic case studies are preferred as submissions. Our editorial board has consisted of African studies scholars (e.g., David Wiley, Maureen Eke), cultural studies luminaries (e.g., Stuart Hall, Larry Grossberg, Daniel Mato, John Hartley), influential media scholars (e.g., Paddy Scannell, Helge Ronning, Hopeton Dunn, Tom O'Regan), anthropologists (Dave Coplan, Lesley Green), and literary scholars (Ken Harrow) amongst many others drawn from African institutions also. Critical Arts' authors are Africans debating Africa with the rest; and the rest debating Africa and the South and with each other. Submissions are sought from both established and new researchers. Recent topics have included political economy of the media, political communication, intellectual property rights visual anthropology, dance and cultural studies in the Middle East.Keyan G Tomaselli Editor-in-ChiefCulture, Communication and Media StudiesUniversity of KwaZulu-NatalHoward College CampusDurban 4041, South AfricaFax: + 27-31-20-1519Tomasell@ukzn.ac.za DisclaimerTaylor & Francis and Unisa Press make every effort to ensure the accuracy of all the information (the "Content") contained in its publications. However, Taylor & Francis and Unisa Press and its agents and licensors make no representations or warranties whatsoever as to the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the Content and disclaim all such representations and warranties whether express or implied to the maximum extent permitted by law. Any views expressed in this publication are the views of the authors and are not necessarily the views of the Editor, Unisa Press, or Taylor & Francis.

The journal addresses the whole range of cultural forms so that discussions of, for example, cinema and television can appear alongside analyses of the accepted literary canon. It is a necessary condition of debate in these areas that it should involve as many and as varied voices as possible, and Critical Quarterly welcomes submissions from new researchers and writers as well as more established contributors.

CCSM is dedicated to providing a forum for the publication of high-quality cross cultural and strategic management research in the global context.

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review offers its readers up-to-date research findings, emerging trends, and cutting-edge perspectives concerning East Asian history and culture from scholars in both English-speaking and Asian language-speaking academic communities.

Cultura y Educación, Revista de teoría, investigación y práctica is an international journal admitting reflection articles on educational research and teaching experiences –duly evaluated– that deal with school, family, and social educational phenomena culturally situated throughout all life stages. All manuscripts are evaluated by external referees.Cultura y Educación will be of interest to researchers and professionals from education and cultural related disciplines, psychologists and educators working in diverse contexts (school, community, university), social and community workers.

Cultural Dynamics seeks to publish research focused on the structured inequalities of the contemporary world, and the myriad ways people negotiate these conditions. The journal is thoroughly interdisciplinary, encompassing anthropology, sociology, philosophy, history, and any other areas that can shed light on culture, power, and politics.