Reisenleitner: Kritisches kulturwissenschaftliches Publizieren. Globale Hegemonien und kritische Interventionsmöglichkeiten.

Abstract: Academic publishing has become one of the most profitable businesses in the global digital knowledge economies, increasingly consolidating the production and distribution of Cultural Studies scholarship in English. This consolidation has narrowed access to Cultural Studies scholarship to geographically, economically, socially and linguistically privileged users in the Global North. While the ongoing shift to disseminating scholarship digitally was initially hailed as a potential for greater publication diversity and diminished gatekeeping by entrenched presses, groups and editors, the digital turn in academic publishing has been marred by paywalls, database subscription models, systematized metrics that normalize scholarship, and standardized regimes of funding, reviewing and assessment. This contribution identifies alternatives to those hegemonic forces and discusses why and how Cultural Studies scholars need to re-appropriate the means of academic knowledge curation, production and distribution in a digital environment in order to redefine academic knowledge production and communication under the auspices of care, social justice, and solidarity in the context of specific cultural communities, languages, and histories.