2026 Special issue: Imaging co-operatives?
Co-operatives and co-operative economy in art and culture – Call for papers
2026 Special issue: Imagining co-operatives?
Co-operatives and co-operative economy in art and culture
Call for papers
For this special issue, Dr Anita Mangan, editor of the Journal, will be joined by guest editors Dr Aidan Byrne, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, and Professor Martin Parker, Professor of Organization Studies at the University of Bristol Business School.
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For many decades, the Journal of Co-operative Studies has delineated the ideals and practices of co-operation in theory and in practice. Now we turn to the imagination. This special issue calls for exploration of the cultural imaginaries of co-operation, whether in popular culture (film, video games, soap opera, and drama), in ‘literature’ and popular fiction, and in creative non-fiction (manifestos, calls to action, art, and even music) and within cultural co-operatives themselves.
The editors welcome submissions ranging from full academic articles/research papers (7,000 words), as well as short articles (4,000 words), and short think pieces (approx. 1,000 words) from practitioners — please see the Journal’s guidelines for submissionfor information on Journal style and formatting.
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