"Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State and historical forces and contexts.

Lawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway

Nordic Cultural Studies - an Introduction Katarina Eskola and Erkki Vainikkala; ARTICLES; The nation in the global village Ulf Hannerz and Orvar Lofgren; Cultural uniformity, differentiation, and small national cultures Kimmo Jokinen; Intellectuals as constructors of cultural identities Jostein Gripsrud; Soul for sale Anders Johansen; Sticking together or standing out: A Scandinavian life story Marianne Gullestad; Homespun life: metaphors on the course of life in women's autobiographies Anni Vilkko; Lace and the limits of reading Lisbeth Larsson; Reception as flow: the `new television viewer' revisited Klaus Bruhn Jensen; TV News: from discrete items to continuous narrative? The social meaning of changing temporal structures Stig Hjarvard; Mirroring meetings, mirroring media: The microphysics of reflexivity Johan Fornas; Ethnographic enigmas: `the everyday' in recent media studies Kirsten Drotner