About the Journal

Privacy Studies Journal (PSJ) is a fully open access, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen. It has an international editorial board with members representing a broad range of academic fields.

PSJ spans the present and the past, and envisions the future. Featuring original, high-quality research on privacy in its broadest sense and with the human component in focus, we welcome contributions that take privacy and the private as catalysts for analysis.

Announcements

Call for abstracts

2025-12-18

Are you working on a project with a privacy perspective? Or are you curious to see what applying a privacy studies lens to your research might reveal?

We invite article abstracts and proposals for special issues on privacy in the past, the present, or the future for the Privacy Studies Journal volumes 5 (2026) and 6 (2027).

The Privacy Studies Journal is dedicated to the study of privacy as an act of boundary drawing and the many ways in which this act influences political, social, and individual life. For the upcoming volumes, we are especially interested in different cultural understandings of privacy, privacy in colonial encounters, and privacy as a privilege.

The journal is interdisciplinary. We thus encourage projects that breach the boundaries of disciplinary fields, but also welcome field-specific submissions.

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Current Issue

2026: Special Issue. ANIMAL PRIVACY: Historical and Conceptual Approaches
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This special issue addresses notions of animal privacy by exploring how historical and contemporary human-animal relationships inform how privacy has been understood, conceptualized, and enacted: conversely, it also examines how human conceptualizations of privacy inform how other species are understood and humans’ relationships with those species. Coming from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the authors engage with animals in relation to privacy in history, art, sound studies, ethics, surveillance studies, and trans-species studies. The articles in this volume stem from ongoing discussions resulting from a workshop of the same name that took place in November 2021, organized by the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen and the Kent Animal Humanities Network at the University of Kent.

Published: 2026-04-01

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