Who are the journals key audiences, and does it have a potential readership outside of academia?
It will mainly be of interest to academics working in the fields mentioned above, and particularly those working from a critical theory perspective, examining the contradictions of capitalism. Critical theory is all about confronting those ideas we never question, for which there appears to be good scientific evidence. But critical theory has a very strong political nose, and points out that these ideas are the ones that serve the interests of powerful groups. So, let’s look at these ideas and see if they are contestable, and we can debunk them. Critical theory is often very emancipatory: take ideas such as the Protestant work ethic or the “natural” role of women, which now sound ridiculous, but only because someone has pointed out that there isn’t a “natural order” of things. So critical theory looks at the assumptions behind knowledge and tests them to see if they are actually valid. And often you find that they’re not. Its role in our journal is to apply this critical evaluation to
