Reviews of Peer-Reviewed Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences
We give you the scuttlebutt on academic journals—aiding you in selecting the right journal for publication—in reviews that are sometimes snarky, sometimes lengthy, always helpful. Written by Princeton University graduate students and Wendy Laura Belcher.
Cultural Critique
For those interested in publishing transnational, transdisciplinary research with a strong theoretical component (especially Marxist) on cultural production as it appears in words, images, and sounds, especially in its aesthetic, economic, political, or ethical context. An influential journal.
It’s most cited articles (as of spring 2015, according to Harzing) were:
| No. of cites | Author | Title | Year published |
| 112 | N Badmington | Theorizing posthumanism | 2003 |
| 105 | P Langley | Uncertain subjects of Anglo-American financialization | 2007 |
| 85 | E Thacker | Data made flesh: Biotechnology and the discourse of the posthuman | 2003 |
| 56 | ACGM Robben | How traumatized societies remember: The aftermath of Argentina’s dirty war | 2005 |
| 53 | R William | Human rights as geopolitics: Carl Schmitt and the legal form of American supremacy | 2003 |
| 50 | DS Traber | LA’s” White Minority”: Punk and the Contradictions of Self-Marginalization | 2001 |
| 42 | M Rifkin | Indigenizing Agamben: Rethinking Sovereignty in Light of the” Peculiar” Status of Native Peoples | 2009 |
| 42 | ES Mackie | Welcome the outlaw: Pirates, maroons, and Caribbean countercultures | 2005 |
| 39 | R Rinaldo | Space of resistance: the Puerto Rican cultural center and Humboldt Park | 2002 |
| 34 | GC Spivak | Moving Devi | 2001 |
| 33 | R Rushton | What can a face do? On Deleuze and faces | 2002 |
| 31 | G Lund | Healing the Nation: Medicolonial Discourse and the State of Emergency from Apartheid to Truth and Reconciliation | 2003 |
| 31 | L Bartlett, TB Byers | Back to the future: The humanist matrix | 2003 |
| 31 | M Adejunmobi | English and the audience of an African popular culture: The case of Nigerian video film | 2002 |
| 30 | KS Theidon | Disarming the subject: remembering war and imagining citizenship in Peru | 2003 |
| 29 | N Pabst | Blackness/mixedness: Contestations over crossing signs | 2003 |
| 28 | J Peck | Why we shouldn’t be bored with the political economy versus cultural studies debate | 2006 |
| 28 | J Muthyala | Reworlding America: the globalization of American studies | 2001 |
| 27 | TB Powell | All colors flow into rainbows and nooses: the struggle to define academic multiculturalism | 2003 |
| 26 | T Siebers | What can disability studies learn from the culture wars? | 2003 |
| 25 | S Dougherty | The biopolitics of the killer virus novel | 2001 |
| 25 | J Lund | Barbarian theorizing and the limits of Latin American exceptionalism | 2001 |
| 25 | E Glick | The Dialectics of Dandyism | 2001 |
| 24 | RD Leppert | Music” Pushed to the Edge of Existence”(Adorno, Listening, and the Question of Hope) | 2005 |
| 24 | J Link, MM Hall | From the” Power of the Norm” to” Flexible Normalism”: Considerations after Foucault | 2004 |
| 23 | J Marx | The Feminization of Globalization | 2006 |
| 22 | U Seshagiri | Modernity’s (Yellow) Perils: Dr. Fu-Manchu and English Race Paranoia | 2006 |
| 22 | C Casarino, A Negri | It’s a Powerful Life: A conversation on contemporary philosophy | 2004 |
| 22 | NK Hayles | Afterword: The human in the posthuman | 2003 |
| 22 | J Didur | Re-embodying technoscientific fantasies: Posthumanism, genetically modified foods, and the colonization of life | 2003 |
| 21 | Z Chaudhary | Phantasmagoric aesthetics: Colonial violence and the management of perception | 2005 |
| 21 | KM Woodward | Against wisdom: The social politics of anger and aging | 2002 |
| 20 | JE Braziel | Haiti, Guantánamo, and the” One Indispensable Nation”: US Imperialism,” Apparent States,” and Postcolonial Problematics of Sovereignty | 2006 |
| 20 | J Wenzel | Remembering the past’s future: Anti-imperialist nostalgia and some versions of the Third World | 2006 |
| 20 | TM Chen | Internationalism and cultural experience: Soviet films and popular Chinese understandings of the future in the 1950s | 2004 |
| 20 | E Berlatsky | Memory as Forgetting: The Problem of the Postmodern in Kundera’s The Book of Laughter and Forgetting and Spiegelman’s Maus | 2003 |
| 20 | V Sanford | From I, Rigoberta to the commissioning of truth: Maya women and the reshaping of Guatemalan history | 2001 |
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