As the journal approaches its twentieth anniversary, we are planning a series of sections titled “Cultural Politics: The Next Twenty Years.” Cognizant of our past record but wishing to build on our revamped editorial configuration, we think the best way to celebrate the journal's legacy is to speculate on its formation over the coming decades. In particular, we hope to generate reflection, debate, and discussion about pressing cultural politics issues and possible theoretical frames for engaging these issues. There will always be a “next twenty years” of cultural politics topics—as a field, as an unfinished problematic for academic inquiry, as a site for speculation and hope—whether the journal exists or not (though we do have aspirations for that too!).
Our last volume saw the journal reconstitute the editorial and advisory boards to further a larger number of voices from different geographical and research areas, adding to the already vast domain...
