About the Journal

Focus and Scope

Debats was launched in 1982 as the journal of the Institution of Alfonso The Magnanimous (IAM) (and shortly afterwards, of the Valencia Institute of Studies and Research (IVEI). Its mission, then as now, was to foster and update the great debates on Social Sciences in the Valencian region, and to facilitate participation by leading experts in the field. Debats journal is now a six-monthly publication. Its objective is to: (1) bring together current intellectual reflections on culture (both in its broadest sense of cultural practices and in the narrower sense of the Arts); (2) examine the links between culture and power, identity, geographies, and social change. The Journal covers matters that are relevant to Valencian society and its wider setting. That said, the aim is to make Debats a key scholarly publication in both Europe and further afield. Debats’ starts from the perspective of the Social Sciences but it also aims to forge links with contemporary analysis and debates in The Humanities, Communication Studies, and Cultural Studies fields. It calls for methodological pluralism while fostering innovation through the adoption of new research techniques and ways of communicating scholarly findings to a broader public. In a nutshell, the Journal is an invaluable tool for analysing emerging problems in the cultural field and in contemporary society. In playing this role, it takes a broad, multi-disciplinary view and combines social impact with scientific rigour in scholarly publications and debates at the international level.