How does sustainability manifest itself when examined from within the broad field of cultural economy? This is the pivotal question of this Culture Unbound special issue which seeks to examine the concept and identify tensions through different disciplinary lenses … By looking at how the three pillars of ‘people, planet and profit’ intertwine when opening up the concept of sustainability, we wish to capture and address the concept not as a coherent entity, but rather as multiple – as a matter of sustainabilities. We wish to interrogate manifold and disputed features, uses and manifestations of the notion, as well as its pliability and continuous reshaping. The aim is to investigate, test - and perhaps transgress - the limits to this notion so widely (mis)used in today’s society. Ultimately, we hope for this special issue to raise attention not to the lack of clear definitions of what sustainability is, but rather to how we may come to terms with and deal with its inability to perform as a coherent concept.

The editors of this special issue invite you to take part in this endeavor by presenting cases and conceptual work that address sustainability in the cultural economy. Your contribution may be empirical or theoretical and could also contain methodological reflections on how to study sustainability.

We look forward to receiving abstracts of a maximum of 300 words briefly sketching the purpose and outline of the paper by no later than November 15^th 2012. The authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be asked to contribute with full length research papers (max 10,000 words references and attachments included). The full paper must be submitted by May 1^st 2013. All papers are subject to double blind peer review.

Read more about Culture Unbound and author guideline here: http://www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/

Please submit your paper or abstract in a Word document by e-mail to Adriana Budeanu (abu.int(at)cbs.dk) by November 15^th, 2012.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Special issue editors

Adriana Budeanu, Copenhagen Business School
Tom O´Dell, Lund University
Carina Ren, Aalborg University