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Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies A peer-reviewed cultural and media studies journal, with an emphasis on the south-north interactive Publication of the first issue occurred in 1980.

CRITICAL ARTS is a non-profit project owned and produced by an independent group of academics who comprise its editors, associate editors, editorial consultants and regional organisers. The journal is currently located in the Centre for Communication, Media and Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, where its editor-in-chief, Prof. Keyan Tomaselli, is director. The journal's editorial consultants and editorial associates are presently drawn from South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe in Africa, and scholars in Scandinavia, England, USA, Canada and Australia. The editor-in-chief is Professor Keyan G. Tomaselli, and associate editors are Tom O'Regan, Ruth Teer-Tomaselli and Joe Muller. Managing editor is Dorothy Roome. CRITICAL ARTS has achieved a remarkable international reception since it was first published in 1980. A review in the prestigious Canadian cultural studies journal, BORDER/LINES, ranked CRITICAL ARTS above many of its First World contemporaries. CRITICAL ARTS regularly receives submissions from the rest of Africa (eg. Nigeria, Lesotho, Malawi, Ghana, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Ivory Coast etc). Other submissions have come from India, Australia, USA, UK, Britain, Belgium, France and Ireland. Our early authors included Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer, and internationally lauded writers like JM Coetzee, and Andre Brink. Added to these South Africans have been articles by eminent scholars Robert Stam, Richard Collins, Ien Ang, and Sam Paltridge amongst others. Theme issue editors have been appointed from South Africa, Namibia, USA, UK and Australia. CRITICAL ARTS is a truly international journal - an international authorship, an international editorial board and international readership.

We have launched our official LinkedIn page! 🙌🏻😀 Let's connect there 🌐 :
17/07/2026

We have launched our official LinkedIn page! 🙌🏻😀 Let's connect there 🌐 :

📢 We are thrilled to launch the official LinkedIn page of Critical Arts! Since our inception, Critical Arts has been dedicated to interrogating the dynamic interplay between texts and contexts, cultural formations, and popular expressions. While our foundation is deeply rooted in the complexities...

Museum HAM Omah Munir embodies what Michel Foucault described as a heterotopia, a counter-space to state-sponsored amnes...
12/06/2026

Museum HAM Omah Munir embodies what Michel Foucault described as a heterotopia, a counter-space to state-sponsored amnesia about Indonesia's history of human rights abuses. Guided by Milan Kundera's principle that “the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” the author illustrates how this space functions as a heterotopia of accumulation, in which linear time becomes a palimpsest of repressed memories. ⌚ 👁️‍🗨️

Museum HAM Omah Munir embodies what Michel Foucault described as a heterotopia, a counter-space to state-sponsored amnesia about Indonesia's history of human rights abuses. Guided by Milan Kundera'...

Through case studies, including Harpreet Sareen's Elowan and Zheng Bo's Pteridophilia, this article examines how plant-b...
09/06/2026

Through case studies, including Harpreet Sareen's Elowan and Zheng Bo's Pteridophilia, this article examines how plant-based digital artworks can navigate ethical tensions between technological mediation, cultural communication, and environmental justice. 🫒🌍🌐

In both Western and Chinese aesthetic traditions, plant life has historically been objectified, either reduced to decorative motifs in still-life painting or moralised through Confucian symbolism. ...

📢 Just Published: Critical Arts, Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025)We are thrilled to announce the latest issue of Critical Arts ...
12/03/2026

📢 Just Published: Critical Arts, Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025)

We are thrilled to announce the latest issue of Critical Arts is now available online! This new volume presents a rich collection of transdisciplinary scholarship, exploring the dynamic intersections of culture, media, and society from the Global South and beyond.

Featuring thematic clusters on African, Asian, and Western perspectives, this issue tackles urgent contemporary questions through compelling research and critical reviews.

Dive into the full table of contents and explore the new research here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcrc20/current

Volume 39, Issue 5 of Critical Arts

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