DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society
DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society is the first academic journal dedicated to the theme of DIY (do-it-yourself) and alternative cultures. It is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles focusing on all aspects of DIY and alternative cultural practice and consumption in a global context. The journal caters to a rapidly growing demand from an international community of scholars whose work focuses on a broad range of DIY cultural practices.
DIY, Alternative Cultures and Society is a strongly multidisciplinary journal. We welcome articles from the global community of scholars working on all aspects of DIY and alternative cultures (economies) in a broad range of academic fields, including, but not limited to: (cultural) sociology, (social) anthropology, urban and rural studies, (social) history, economics, (social, cultural and critical) geography, psychology, cultural studies, media studies, law, politics, (cultural) criminology, languages and linguistics, art and design, fashion studies, film studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, radio and journalism studies, fine arts, sound studies and popular music studies.
The journal also welcomes articles drawing on a wide range of conceptual approaches, including (but again not limited to) (post)structuralism, functionalism, social constructionism, conflict theory, behaviorism, homology, semiotics, symbolic interactionism, hermeneutics, ethnomethodology, phenomenology, critical theory, post-colonial theory and postmodernism. The journal also has a strong focus on empirically informed work, featuring articles based on the various social science methodologies ranging across quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods analysis: such methods will include (but again are not limited to), ethnography and virtual ethnography, archival research, visual analysis, textual analysis, social network analysis, multi-correspondence analysis, multiple regression analysis, diachronic and synchronic analysis, discourse analysis, and linguistic analysis.
The journal is keen to encourage submissions from both established and emerging scholars.
Topic coverage includes (but is not limited to):
· Theoretical and methodological perspectives on DIY
· Work, entrepreneurship and the market in DIY cultures
· Creativity, entrepreneurship and cultural resistance
· DIY lifestyles and alternative careers
· Gender, sexuality and DIY cultures
· Archives, documentation, pedagogy and heritage
· Cities, transformation, activism and intervention
· Regional and rural articulations of DIY and alternative cultures
· Alternative pedagogies and artistic education
· DIY cultures and global challenges
· Hybridism and glocalization
· DIY cultures, migrations and mobilities
· Postcolonial identities and geographies
· Social innovation, creativity, DIY and social inclusion
· DIY culture, space and place
· Aesthetics, bodies and affections
· Audiences, markets and DIY culture
· DIY cultures, health and well-being
· Historical studies of DIY and alternative cultures
· DIY, alternative cultures and dystopias
· Youth and DIY cultures
· DIY, ageing and generation
· Technologies of production in DIY and alternative cultures
· Local, trans-local and digital connectivity in DIY scenes
· Documentary and film narratives of DIY
· DIY, spatial justice and new ways of living
· DIY cultures, sustainability and artistic ecosystems
| Andy Bennett | Griffith University, Australia |
| Paula Guerra | University of Porto, Portugal |
| Constance DeVereaux | University of Connecticut, USA |
| Tatiana Moura | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| Anthony Fung | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Vi Grunvald | Rio Grande do Sul Federal University, Brazil |
| Will Straw | McGill University, Canada |
| Catherine Strong | RMIT University, Australia |
| Matthew Worley | University of Reading, UK |
| Devpriya Chakravarty | Griffith University, Australia |
| Sofia Sousa | University of Porto, Portugal |
| Airi-Alina Alaste | TLU School of Governance, Law and Society, Estonia |
| Gina Arnold | Stanford University, USA |
| Samantha Bennett | Australian National University, Australia |
| Pauwke Berkers | Erasmus University, Netherlands |
| Maria Claudia Bonadio | Federal University of Juiz de For a, Brazil |
| Asya Draganova | Birmingham City University, UK |
| Carles Feixa | Pompeu Fabra University, Spain |
| Mary Fogarty | York University, Canada |
| Ross Haenfler | Grinnell College, USA |
| Anthony Kwame Harrison | Virginia Tech, USA |
| Päivi Honkatukia | University of Tampere, Finland |
| Pierig Humeau | Limoges University, France |
| Miaoju Jian | National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan |
| Jennifer Lena | Columbia University, USA |
| William Ofentse Lesitaokana | University of Botswana, Botswana |
| Michael MacDonald | MacEwan University, Canada |
| José Machado Pais | University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| George McKay | University of East Anglia, UK |
| Elena Omelchenko | University of St Petersburg, Russia |
| Manisha Pathak-Shelat | MICA, India |
| Rosa Reitsamer | University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria |
| Mykaell Riley | University of Westminster, UK |
| Hyunjoon Shin | Sungkonghoe University, South Korea |
| Geoff Stahl | Wellington University, New Zealand |
| Steve Threadgold | University of Newcastle, Australia |
| Patrick Williams | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Yiri Yin | Beijing Normal University, China |
| Robin Kuchar | Leuphana University, Germany |
| Ana Oliveira | Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.