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Call for papers

Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR)

Special issue on ‘European Union and Challenges of Cultural Policies: Critical
Perspectives’

Guest editors: Jaka Primorac, Aleksandra Uzelac and Paško Bilić, Department for
Culture and Communication, Institute for Development and International Relations
(IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia

Vol. 24 No. 83 (2018)

The Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR) now accepts contributions for
its special thematic issue with the provisional title ‘European Union and
Challenges of Cultural Policies: Critical Perspectives’ that will focus on the
systematic and critical reflections on the impact of the European Union on the
national level policies that are framing the cultural field, shedding light on
the challenges of implementing cultural policies, as well as, on the challenges
of creating and thinking about new cultural policies. CIRR (ISSN 1848-5782)
published by the Institute for Development and International Relations, is a
peer-reviewed journal in the social sciences that is indexed by Scopus –
Elsevier and over 30 other services.

Description and scope

The world in which we live is changing rapidly and hence, local and global
levels are no longer easily separated. In the 21st century, cultural policies
have to deal with a (post) globalisation context that is marked by cultural,
social and economic transformations; issues of rapid technological change and
digital shift driven mostly by economic interests, market concentration and the
dominance of global corporations; mobility and migration movements; rapid
urbanisation; social and financial instability, etc. All this has an impact on
the conditions under which the cultural sector operates today.

In the context of EU politics, culture has increasingly been used as an
instrument for different social, political or economic objectives. EU
international relations are increasingly becoming intercultural, while the
concept of culture as public value is weakening in comparison to its commodity
value. The crisis in Europe and of the European model has implications for the
cultural field as well; today’s Europe needs to reimagine itself – its aims,
values and identities – and needs to find an adequate model for its sustainable
cultural development. Due to the subsidiarity principle engrained in the Lisbon
Treaty, the European Union has not been involved in formulating an explicit
common cultural policy. Nevertheless, the EU has been indirectly contributing to
the creation of common cultural policy frameworks through its soft cultural
policy instruments and mechanisms that represent a de facto policy approach to
the various cultural policy issues and their related instruments (e.g. Open
Method of Coordination – OMC, the Creative Europe programme, the European
Capitals of Culture (ECOC) as the EU cultural programme initiatives and other
similar mechanisms). The EU has been also contributing through other explicit
policies that affect the field of culture (e.g. through the strategy on the
Digital Single Market (DSM) and other similar strategies). It is questionable
whether such an approach is still adequate for today’s cultural and social
challenges, and whether national level cultural policies can tackle complex
global problems, especially in the context where many other public policies are
increasingly influencing the field of culture.

The Special Issue on ‘European Union and Challenges of Cultural Policies:
Critical Perspectives’ calls for contributions that critically address the
different issues and challenges that the EU and national cultural policies are
facing in the 21st century, including, but not limited to:

• EU and cultural policy issues: What are the limits of subsidiarity?
• What are the impacts of EU soft policy mechanisms on national contexts (OMC,
Structured Dialogue, Creative Europe, European Capital of Culture)?
• How to contextualise explicit and implicit cultural policies in the context of
transversality and convergence of policies?
• What is the role of civil society and networks in formulating cultural
policies?
• Who are the new actors in intersectoral connection (culture, education,
science, ICT)
• The role of culture in EU international relations – what are the benefits for
the cultural sector?
• What are the implications of digital shift to sustainable culture of the
future?
• What is the role of the strategy of the Digital Single Market for sustainable
digital cultural resources?
• Media and communication policy issues: What is the place of media freedom and
media pluralism?
• How to tackle socio-cultural inequalities in Europe from the cultural policy
perspective?
• Innovative cultural policies: what new models are there for achieving
sustainability in cultural development?
• What new theoretical perspectives on cultural policy can be used?

We welcome articles that develop theoretical arguments or offer strong empirical
evidence as either comparative or single-case studies.

Submission and Important dates

We welcome original articles written in English up to 8000 words in length
(including footnotes and an abstract of 150 words, and excluding the
bibliography). All selected articles are subject to double-blind refereeing by
at least two reviewers. Please consult the Instructions for authors before
submitting your contributions.

Articles should be sent to cirr@irmo.hr with the subject line stating ‘Article
submission for the Special Issue on ‘European Union and Challenges of Cultural
Policies: Critical Perspectives’.

Article submission deadline: November 12th, 2017
First round of notifications: February 2nd, 2018
Revised papers due: March 6th, 2018
Further reviews and acceptance: April 17th, 2018
Expected publication date: June, 2018

In case of further inquiries, please feel free to contact our Guest Editors:
Jaka Primorac (jaka@irmo.hr), Aleksandra Uzelac (auzelac@irmo.hr) and Paško
Bilić (pasko@irmo.hr).

About the journal:

The Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR) is an interdisciplinary
academic journal published in English since 1995 and is dedicated to social
sciences with a focus on political science, sociology, law and economics. Each
issue includes scholarly, double-blind peer reviewed articles, and book reviews.
CIRR is a member of COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics – and is published
electronically, by the Institute for Development and International Relations
(IRMO) in Zagreb. The journal is supported by the Ministry of Science and
Education of the Republic of Croatia and is published in collaboration with De
Gruyter Open, the world’s second largest publisher of Open Access academic
content. For further inquiry on CIRR, please write to the editorial board at
cirr@irmo.hr or visit our website at http://cirr.irmo.hr/en/.