The Journal of Child and Youth Cultures is the only one in both Denmark and the broader Nordic region that prioritizes an artistic and cultural-aesthetic perspective on the field. It targets institutions, municipal administrations, cultural consultants, teachers, librarians, researchers, students, educators, designers, producers, parents, and others with a professional interest in children’s and youth culture.
The journal is a forum for dissemination, research, critique, debate, and information in the field of children’s and youth culture. It presents and analyzes a wide range of topics, media, perspectives, and issues within children’s and youth culture. The overarching aim is to demonstrate children’s and young people’s cultural practices as they are expressed in interaction with various media, institutions, and other settings.
The format of the journal alternates between thematic issues and issues containing articles on a broader range of topics. The journal’s primary goal is to demonstrate, analyze, debate, and disseminate children’s and young people’s cultural practices, as they are expressed in interaction with various media, institutions, etc. It presents and analyzes a wide range of topics, media, perspectives, and issues within children’s and youth culture, including:
- The classical children’s culture in contemporary and cultural-historical perspectives, such as literature, theatre, music, song, dance, visual arts for children, television, animated and cartoon films, toys
- Newer forms of children’s and youth culture, such as digital games, social media platforms, robotics, makerspaces
- Children’s and young people’s cultural expressions and their use of aesthetic forms of expression, ranging from play culture and media use to their staging of everyday life both inside and outside institutions
- Cultural projects with children and young people, including children’s and youth culture in cultural and pedagogical institutions, such as through ministerial and municipal supported projects like the LegeKunst project, as well as policy documents in the field
About publication and editorial team
The Journal of Child and Youth Cultures is published by the organization Børne- og UngdomsKulturSammenslutningen (BUKS).
Since 1982, BUKS has focused on various forms of children’s and youth culture through research and development projects, articles, teaching, lectures, courses, and networking activities.
The journal’s core editorial team views its primary mission as reaching out to Danish, Nordic, and international researchers and practitioners in the field, offering them opportunities for peer review, editing, and publication of articles that contribute to the continued development of knowledge in the field of children’s and youth culture.
The journal is typically published in thematic issues based on open calls, but also provides space for unsolicited articles. The editorial board consists of researchers and educators in the field and is supplemented by special thematic editorial groups. We publish articles in Danish, English, Norwegian, and Swedish, and offer researchers the opportunity for peer review (double-blind review) of their articles. As a rule, at least two reviews will be required per article. In the peer review process, both the academic content and the linguistic communication are given weight.
Do you have questions about the publishing process? Would you like to discuss your article idea? Do you have general questions about BUKS? As the Chair of BUKS, Kim Jerg can be contacted for questions regarding the journal or the publishing process.
BUKS offers immediate Open Access to the journal’s content based on the principle that free public access to research supports a greater exchange of knowledge. The journal is published on www.buks.dk and www.tidsskrift.dk.
The journal could only be realized thanks to the significant support from the Danish Arts Foundation.
