De Gruyter Publishers hereby invite scholars to submit manuscripts for the new series

TOWARDS A GLOBAL UNDERSTANDING OF CULTURAL WORK

Series Editors:  

Carlos Garrido Castellano, University College Cork, Ireland/University of Johannesburg, South Africa 
Minna Valjakka, University of Helsinki, Finland 

This book series explores cultural work as an essential part of artistic and creative processes of world-making and imagining alternative futures. Our aim is to diversify and decentre the debates on how cultural practitioners experience, understand and transform their environments under changing conditions. To do so, we are interested in original scholarship that expands contemporary debates on the challenges and possibilities of cultural work beyond Eurocentric and Western-centred paradigms, cutting across disciplines and mediums. The monographs and edited volumes of this series will problematise the centrality of Western thought and praxis in the configuration of a critical lexicon; investigate the global dynamics of contemporary cultural production, and critically discuss issues of autonomy, centre and periphery, and precariousness in original and provocative ways. With a broader focus including the process-based dimensions and the capacity to produce knowledge of cultural work, this book series offers a more nuanced investigation of current modalities and parameters redefined by current emergences, such as growing inequality, climate crisis, and racism. 

This book series is open to different formats, such as monographs and edited volumes. Books can be published in color in print and/or digitally as e-books (Gold Open Access).  

For  questions  related  to  the  series’  scope  and  reach,  please  do  not  hesitate  to  contact  us (carlos.garridocastellano@ucc.ie; minna.valjakka@helsinki.fi)

For practical questions related to publishing formats and conditions, please contact Anja Weisenseel, Acquisitions Editor Arts at De Gruyter (Anja.Weisenseel@degruyter.com) 

Advisory Board: 

Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, Canada
Kiu-wai Chu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Helen Gilbert, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Lena Henningsen, Heidelberg University, Germany
Conrad James, University of Toronto, Canada
Nomusa Makhubu, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Yoshitaka Mōri, Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
J. Griffith Rollefson, University College Cork, Ireland
Gregory Sholette, City University of New York, US
Terry Smith, University of Sydney, Australia / University of Pittsburgh, US