Lateral
Last updated ISSN 2469-4053
Lateral is published by Cultural Studies Association in social sciences. It is open access. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Lateral concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Race, History, and American Society
- Political Economy and Marxism
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Art, Politics, and Modernism
- Music History and Culture
- Digital Games and Media
- Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
Key facts
| Publisher | Cultural Studies Association |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2469-4053 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | DOAJ |
| Articles published | 522 |
| Publishing since | 2012 |
| Journal website | csalateral.org |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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