Mobilisations, interventions and cultural policy

In this inaugural issue, Lateral takes the form of a cluster of four research threads. The initial threads converge around a consideration of knowledge formations, institutional and material location, and political intervention and implication. Rather than being organized topically or thematically, the threads provide various problematics, temperaments, tones, or dispositions toward developing work. The threads are in effect portals in which interests in identity, pedagogy, theory, violence, embodiment or other concerns that flow through cultural studies can be joined and engaged.
The research thread 'Mobilisations, Interventions and Cultural Policy' pursues current transformational activisms to rethink values of polity, policy, and participation. It includes contributions by Alexander Dellantonio, Francesco Salvini, the nanopolitics group, Sandro Mezzadra, Begum Ozden Firat and Gavin Grindon. It is curated and edited by Emma Dowling.