Published since 1987, “Prace Kulturoznawcze” is the oldest cultural studies journal in Poland. It was founded under the auspices of the first Polish cultural studies institute at the University of Wrocław. In 2016 “Prace Kulturoznawcze” became a quarterly. Since its inception, the journal has offered a unique overview of both recent and past developments in Polish cultural studies, thus contributing to the research domain’s growth and opening up critical discussions on its latest concepts. This is related to the unique approach adopted by the Wrocław institute, namely the value-oriented concept of culture. This concept ensures academic integrity and consistency across individual volumes. The choice of themes for subsequent volumes is based on a diagnosis and projection of the current cultural situation. The latest issues of “Prace Kulturoznawcze” cover such topics as non-human culture, participation and community, food studies, post-secularism, climate change, cultural criticism, plant studies, and television studies. By inviting authors who represent various theoretical perspectives and international academic communities, the editors ensure that the papers highlight the axiological aspects of the topics being discussed. This kind of focus distinguishes “Prace Kulturoznawcze” from many other, not only Polish, periodicals devoted to culture and its theory.
The core of “Prace Kulturoznawcze” is the “Articles” section featuring original, reviewed academic articles. The journal’s regular sections include: “Work in progress” presenting articles by early career authors; and “Continuations”, exploring themes from previous issues. The “Translations” section makes essays by leading contemporary scholars accessible to the Polish readers, while the “Review essays” section features reviews of Polish and foreign publications. The “Archive” section revisits important but difficult-to-access and often forgotten Polish and foreign articles to be re-read in contemporary contexts as well as unpublished materials such as index cards by the founder of “Prace Kulturoznawcze”, Professor Stanisław Pietraszko. In recent years, an increasing number of articles has been published in English. Some volumes have been published entirely in English (e.g. Post-Secular Culture?, 21, 2017, no. 1; The New Frontiers of Televison, 24, 2020, no. 4).
Over the years “Prace Kulturoznawcze” has earned a reputation among academic publications devoted to the study of culture, as evidenced by contributions from the most respected and renowned representatives of Polish cultural studies. With its focus on the academic achievements of the Wrocław institution, “Prace Kulturoznawcze” became a forum for multi-voiced discussions on the fundamental problems of culture.
Abstracts of the articles published in “Prace Kulturoznawcze” are available in the Networked Scientific Journals (CNS) database, the Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH), EBSCO, the Federation of Digital Libraries (FBC), and Europeana. Under the Publisher's agreement with the MLA Directory of Periodicals, copies of the journal are also submitted to be included in the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database (CSA, ProQuest).
Basic version: printed.
Website: https://wuwr.pl/pkult/
Frequency: Quarterly
Circulation: 100 copies
Publisher: Wroclaw University Press
ISSN: 0860-6668
Contact with the Editorial Team:
Instytut Kulturoznawstwa
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
ul. Szewska 50/51
50-139 Wrocław, Poland
prace.kulturoznawcze@uwr.edu.pl
Contact with the Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego Sp. z.o.o.
pl. Uniwersytecki 15
50-137 Wrocław, Poland
10.19195/0860-6668
Contact
Instytut Kulturoznawstwa
Uniwersytet Wrocławski
ul. Szewska 50/51
50-139 Wrocław
prace.kulturoznawcze@uwr.edu.pl
Indexation
English
Język Polski