About the Journal

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities is an open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora. Its initial impetus was the editor's research for her book Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities in Literature (Brill, 2022), during which she discovered the need for more scholarly work in this area.

Acknowledging Benedict Anderson's well-established idea that the nation is an imagined community, the specific focus of this journal is on the large and growing number of people whose identities are formed by the experience of having lived in three or more different nations during their childhoods. This is because there is already a substantial body of scholarly work on issues of migrancy, diaspora, and bicultural identities, and this journal was established to explore the experiences, perspectives, representations, and cultural productions of people whose mobile global childhoods have produced more complex cosmopolitan identities.

Accordingly, we are inviting submissions which engage with cultural and social issues related to global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, including:

• Scholarly articles based on original research in the arts (particularly literature) and/or the social sciences
• Book reviews
• Autobiographical narratives
• Original pieces of creative writing