Quaderni Culturali IILA is a freely available international magazine founded by the Cultural Secretary of IILA - Italo-Latin American Organization (international organization, of which Italy and twenty Latin American countries are members) in 2018. The magazine offers various subjects and is published annually with contributions in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and English.

Quaderni Culturali IILA publishes studies and analyses of the arts and different Latin American cultures. The magazine aims to promote intellectual discussion and critically innovative subjects and methodologies from a  interdisciplinary point of view.

Quaderni Culturali IILA would like to become a reference for the study of cultural relations between Italy and Latin America as well as the study of the arts and different Latin American cultures in a global context. 

Quaderni Culturali IILA is supported by contributions from featured Italian and Latin American academics as well as artists and independent researchers.

FOCUS AND AIMS

Quaderni Culturali IILA aims to create a space for international reflection and to contribute to the exchange of knowledge.  The magazine also attempts to meet the needs and respond to the problems of contemporary society, confronting environmental issues, and tackling general subjects, migration, civil rights, new technologies, race-related problems, and so on. While the subjects treated by the magazine cover a wide range of regions and locations, it aims to position itself as a prominent reference in the study of cultural relations between Latin America and Italy. 

JOURNAL SECTIONS & CRITERIA FOR ACCEPTANCE

Quaderni Culturali IILA publishes research papers. The main criteria for acceptance of submitted work are originality, scholarly rigor, significance for further inquiry, quality of presentation, and consistency with the topic and approach of  the call.

KEYWORDS

Latin America; Cultural Circulation; Visual Arts; Literature; Film; Music; Performing Arts; Anthropology; History; Geography; Latin American Studies; Subaltern Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Global Studies.

DOUBLE BLIND RIGOROUS PEER REVIEW

Each submission to Quaderni Culturali IILA is subject to a rigorous quality control and double blind peer-review evaluation process before receiving a final decision. The initial in-house quality control check deals with issues such as competing interests; ethical requirements for studies involving human participants or animals; financial disclosures; full compliance with Quaderni Culturali IILA’s data availability policy, etc. 

If the manuscript is considered suitable for publication, it is sent to at least two anonymous reviewers. The peer review process is double-blind. If the reviews are positive, but the manuscript requires to be revised and resubmitted, the author is expected to submit the revised version.

The Editors are responsible for conducting the peer-review process and for the final decision on the submitted article.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Quaderni Culturali IILA provides immediate open access to its content. Our publisher, Firenze University Press at the University of Florence, complies with the Budapest Open Access Initiative definition of Open Access: By “open access”, we mean the free availability on the public internet, the permission for all users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full text of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain is to guarantee the original authors with control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited. We support a greater global exchange of knowledge by making the research published in our journal open to the public and reusable under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0). Furthermore, we encourage authors to post their pre-publication manuscript in institutional repositories or on their websites prior to and during the submission process and to post the Publisher’s final formatted PDF version after publication without embargo. These practices benefit authors with productive exchanges as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

PUBLICATION FREQUENCY

Papers will be published online as soon as they are accepted, and tagged with a DOI code. The final full bibliographic record for each article (initial-final page) will be released with the hard copies of Quaderni Culturali IILA. Manuscripts are accepted at any time through the online submission system. 

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Authors who publish with Quaderni Culturali IILA agree to the following terms:

• Authors retain the copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY-4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work's authorship and initial publication in Quaderni Culturali IILA.
• Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
• Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

PUBLICATION FEES

Quaderni Culturali IILA does not charge any publication fee.

WAIVER INFORMATION

Fee waivers do not apply at Firenze University Press because our funding does not rely on author charges. 

PUBLICATION ETHICS

Responsibilities of Quaderni Culturali IILA's editors, reviewers, and authors concerning publication ethics and publication malpractice are described in FUP’s GuidelinCORRECTIONS AND RETRACTIONS

In accordance with the generally accepted standards of scholarly publishing, Quaderni Culturali IILA does not alter articles after publication: "Articles that have been published should remain extant, exact and unaltered to the maximum extent possible".
In cases of serious errors or (suspected) misconduct Quaderni Culturali IILA publishes corrections and retractions (expressions of concern).