Atlantic Studies is a multidisciplinary quarterly that publishes cutting-edge research, studying the Atlantic world as a conceptual, historical, and cultural space. It explores transnational, transhistorical, and transdisciplinary intersections, but also addresses global flows and perspectives beyond the Atlantic as a closed or self-contained space. In the larger context of global flows, the journal considers the Atlantic as part of wider networks, a space of exchange, and an expanding paradigm beyond the limits of its own geography, moving beyond national, regional, and continental divides by examining entangled histories and cultures. Published on behalf of MESEA (Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas), the journal challenges critical orthodoxies that have drawn sharp lines between the experiences and representations of the Atlantic world and its wider global context, in particular in relation to the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
Topics for submissions may include but are not limited to the following:
- Political and cultural processes, the impacts of globalization, markets and communications
- The transnational and the transhistorical
- The ‘Global Atlantic’: the global and the local; forms of historical and contemporary
globalization; global cognition - Maritime geographies
- Oceanic studies: the Pacific and Pacific Rim, and the Indian Ocean in relation to the Atlantic
- (Trans)hemispheric perspectives
- Ecologies, including non-human phenomena (animals, environments, technologies, infrastructures)
- The public Atlantic: memories, museums and memorializations
- Indigeneity
- Forms of creolization and mestizaje/métissage
- Migratory flows, diasporas and settlements
- Forms of colonization and imperialism
- Cosmopolitanism and civilizations
- Urban and non-urban spaces
- Flows of knowledge: vectors, science, medicine
Peer Review Policy
All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by our editors and followed by a further critical reading by two anonymous referees (double-blind). Submission is online via Editorial Manager.
Contact information: d.fischer-hornung@mesea.org
Peer Review Policy
