Critical Interventions

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Aims and scope

This journal has ceased (2021).

Critical Interventions Aims and Scope

Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture is a forum for advanced research and writing that investigates African and African Diaspora art and cultural identities in the age of globalization. As an arena for rethinking African art history and interrogating the value of African art and cultural knowledge in the global economy and how that knowledge is transmitted, Critical Interventions is particularly interested in the politics of the commodification of African artworks and of their reception. The journal also inaugurates a formal discourse on the aesthetics, politics and economics of African cultural patrimony as it affects African ownership of the intellectual property rights of its indigenous systems of knowledge and cultural practices.

Critical Interventions is a peer-reviewed journal overseen by its founder and editor, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, with the support of an editorial board of notable international scholars of African studies.

Critical Interventions pursues an interdisciplinary focus on the classical and contemporary art, art history and visual culture of global Africa. We are especially interested in scholarship that pursues critical reexamination of established orthodoxy in the field of African art history and creates new interpretations of African art that combines dedicated historical consciousness with awareness of new theoretical and methodological constructs. We welcome all scholarly approaches and publish across the diverse range of global African creativity. As such, the journal welcomes papers on, but not limited to, the following topics: Gender and Sexuality in African arts, Arts and Culinary culture in Africa, Art and Environment in Africa, Esoterica in African Visual Culture, African Photography, and Visual Cultures of Contemporary Africa, African New Media and Digital Art.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

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