About the Journal

The world which gave birth to human sciences has changed - in ways that the human sciences have long ceased to comprehend. The contours of objects (nation-states, cultures, religions, histories, identities, the institutions of politics) are shifting, and the ways we go about imagining and thinking about those objects are also in turmoil: the several international theoretical and political movements - such as marxism, feminism, Pan-Islam, Pan-Africanism, Non-Alignment, Pan-Indianism or Pan-Americanism - have been both causes and expressions of this turmoil.

Yet, the contact between and through cultures, histories, religions and forms of secularity is immensely fertile ground, and one with which Cultural Dynamics seeks to both document and engage. What new concepts or forms of theory are necessary, then, for thinking culture in the 21st century? What are the distinct theoretical positions and possibilities that emerge from thinking through and across cultures, past and present? Cultural Dynamics proposes to provide a forum for reconceptualizing the human sciences by understanding how culture emerges as a site of theoretical debate and political contestation, and by tracking the ways in which theory works cross-cultures.