About the Journal
Focus and Scope
Conjunctions is a peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to create an international and transdisciplinary forum for the investigation of user-generated cultural production, user-driven cultural participation and citizen involvement across a variety of social fields, contexts and practices, e.g. urban spaces, (digital) media, social media platforms, education and teaching, the cultural sector and creative industries, aesthetic productions and museums, health institutions, activism and design.
The overall focus of the journal is to explore the socially transformative and democratic potential of cultural participation processes, to qualify the academic understanding of what ‘participation’ is and what it involves, and to discuss the complex relations created between user-generated processes and established institutions and discourses.
We take an interest in critical analyses of participatory practices, rhetoric and involvement strategies, in affirmative investigations of participation, in explorations of explicit or conscious and implicit or non-conscious forms of participation.
Submitted articles can be focused on theoretical development or on empirical analysis (of e.g. case studies). We also welcome work that use innovative or creative methods as well as more traditional methods.
The journal invites submissions from a variety of disciplinary fields such as media and communication studies, cultural studies, interaction and participatory design, cultural geography, education, aesthetics, science and technology studies, health care, health communication, information science, sociology, anthropology, development studies and gender studies.
The journal is published twice every year.
Guidelines for Reviewers
Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation has a 'double blind' peer review procedure. The editors of each issue moderate and supervise the review process, and authors are able to follow each step of it.
Peer reviewers are given four to six weeks to complete the review.
Peer reviewers are asked to give their opinion on a number of issues pertinent to the scientific and formal aspects of a paper, and to judge the papers on grounds of originality and urgency.
Peer reviewers are asked to answer the following questions:
1. Is the paper original and relevant for the research area?
2. Is the argumentation convincing and coherent?
3. Is existing research properly included and referenced?
4. Is the paper structured well?
5. Is the paper reader-friendly?
Peer reviewers will have four possible options for recommendations:
1. Accept manuscript (no need for revision)
2. Accept after minor revisions (accepted if the author makes the requested revisions)
3. Major revisions
4. Reject manuscript
Papers may also be rejected directly by the editors if judged to be out of scope or sub-standard.
Sources of Support
IRFD - The Independent Research Fund Denmark
Journal History
Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation was launched in 2013 in the wake of the conference RETHINK Participatory Cultural Citizenship. Through the focus on participation Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation provides a focused publication site. By publishing an article with us your work is inscribed in a specific research area and widely disseminated globally through our open access system.
