About the Journal

Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives is an international academic journal with a vocation for interdisciplinarity and the promotion of transdisciplinary experiences. The transdisciplinary approach promotes a deeper and more adequate understanding of human and socio-cultural realities, no longer centred on a rigid disciplinary vision, and values education, cultural and social anthropology, communication and linguistics, history, literature, sociology, psycho-pedagogy, economic and political sciences, geography and international relations.

Given its cultural matrix, the dimension of the journal is decidedly international, involving many different disciplinary expertise in the editorial and scientific team. Although it was born as an academic journal, over the years Comparative Cultural Studies has established contacts with non-university cultural institutions, such as museums (it is a privileged partner of the Casa de África in Cuba), conservatories and theatres, social organisations and public administrations, in order to enrich its contents, themes and approaches.

The issues published so far bear witness to the growth of the journal, which, founded by a small group of academics, has gradually become a point of reference for scholars from all over the Americas thanks to the collective work it has done, giving space to original themes, even beyond the disciplines of reference: think of the issue dedicated to music in Cuba, between questions of identity, religious function and musicological aspects; or, still in the musical field, the reinterpretation of the Brazilian composer Chiquinha Gonzaga.

The journal is now entering a new phase, with a different university location and a renewed editorial and scientific team. In addition, this new phase, while maintaining a solid continuity with previous issues, aims to strengthen communication and language as a fundamental and crucial tool that drives current intercultural processes; as well as to promote the inclusion of the gender perspective in studies and research from an intersectional and interdisciplinary approach and its promotion in written texts, with the ultimate goal of breaking the patriarchal and androcentric gender biases present in the production and dissemination of knowledge that favours gender equality.

Publication Frequency 

The journal is published twice a year.

Peer review process 

Comparative Cultural Studies publishes high quality research and review articles, short communications and reviews, following a timely and rigorous double-blind peer review process. 

Submissions are initially reviewed by the Editors, Secretary and Editorial Team within four weeks to ensure that the subject matter of the article is within the journal's publication guidelines and that it meets editorial standards. If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, both in terms of format and content, it is sent for evaluation by two external referees using a double-blind system, so that both the referees and the author remain anonymous. The reviewers are asked to evaluate the manuscript within four weeks. If the reviews are positive but the manuscript needs to be revised and resubmitted, the author is expected to submit the revised version within three weeks.

Open Access Policy 

Comparative Cultural Studies: European and Latin American Perspectives provides immediate open access to its content. The Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition of Open Access: "Open Access” means free availability on the public Internet, permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of articles, to crawl them for indexing, to pass them as data to software, or to use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from access to the Internet itself. The only restriction on reproduction and distribution, and the only role of copyright in this area, is to guarantee original authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. We support greater global knowledge sharing by making research published in our journal publicly available and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0). In addition, we encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their websites before and during the submission process, and to publish the final version as a publisher-formatted PDF after publication. These practices benefit authors through productive exchanges and earlier and higher citation of published work.