About the Journal

Aim and scope:

Image & Text has been published annually since 1992 (primarily as a journal for design) and was accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education and Training in 1997. Since 2011, it has been repositioned as a multi- and interdisciplinary journal for research in visual culture. The aim of the journal is to draw perspectives from a broad field of interests and subjects: visual anthropology, material culture, visual arts, design culture, visualising sciences and technologies, art history, philosophy, fashion, media and film studies, architecture, literary studies, tourism studies, new media and cyber theory, and so forth. The grounding provided by visual culture studies as a comparative and enabling premise for all these approaches, subjects, interests, fields and theories, is located in the Global South, not only geographically but also critically.

The editors invite articles that address or intersect with the visual from any of the fields mentioned above. One of the aims is to showcase new and young academic voices, as well as more established voices.

Indexed sources:

African Journal Archive
Social Sciences and Humanities (excl. T&F)
The Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) SA
Diamond Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Open access statement:

This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

Copyright:

All articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0); copyright is retained by the authors. Thus, the author(s) retain full copyright and full publishing rights on articles published by Image & Text.

Repository policy:

The author has the right to deposit all versions of an article in an institutional or other repository of the author’s choice without embargo.