We are very pleased to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of the Open Arts Journal

http://openartsjournal.org/

Spanning art, art history, literature, critical theory and cultural geography, 'Cosmopolitanism as Critical and Creative Practice', is guest edited by Eleanor Byrne and Berthold Schoene from the Manchester Metropolitan University. 

CONTENTS
  

Cosmopolitanism as critical and creative practice: an introduction
Eleanor Byrne and Berthold Schoene, Manchester Metropolitan University


The world on a train: global narration in Geoff Ryman’s 253
Berthold Schoene, Manchester Metropolitan University


The precarious ecologies of cosmopolitanism
Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University


‘How dare you rubbish my town!’: place listening as an approach to socially engaged art within UK urban regeneration contexts
Elaine Speight, Birkbeck College London


Towards a cosmopolitan criticality? Relational aesthetics, Rirkrit Tiravanija and transnational encounters with pad thai
Renate Dohmen, University of Louisiana


Parallel editing, multi-positionality and maximalism: cosmopolitan effects as explored in some art works by Melanie Jackson and Vivienne Dick
Rachel Garfield, University of Reading


Offshore cosmopolitanism: reading the nation in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled, Lawrence Chua’s Gold by the Inch and Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
Liam Connell, University of Winchester


Trick questions: cosmopolitan hospitality
Eleanor Byrne, Manchester Metropolitan University


Google paintings
John Timberlake

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Editor in Chief, Leon Wainwright, The Open University 
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