Located in Chicago, IL, USA, the CSA is headed by an executive committee of American academics who guide the association's efforts to promote the exchange of ideas between scholars, hold annual conferences, and publish an educational journal.
Approaching culture as spatial allows for powerful analyses of dominance and resistance, style, consumption, identity, ideology, as well as human-environment relations.
The Division welcomes discussion in all areas pertaining to environment, space and place, past and present, and encourages interdisciplinary consideration of these topics.
Lateral was founded in 2012 as a digital journal and production site designed to foster experimentation and collaboration among cultural studies practitioners and researchers.
[2] Early issues of the journal were organized around research threads that considered knowledge formations, institutional and material location, and political intervention and implication.
These threads included Theory and Method; Creative Industries; Universities in Question; and Mobilisations, Interventions, and Cultural Policy.
Past forums have included Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities (2015-16), Universal Basic Income (2018-19), Gun Culture (2020), and Cultural Constructions of Race and Racism in the Middle East and North Africa / Southwest Asia and North Africa (MENA/SWANA)(2021).