This should in turn promote a global feel to the journals and the enablement of cross-cutting dialogue between international scholars. In addition to refereed academic articles, the journals also include important articles, reports and commentaries from the coal face - from academics, pressure groups and think tanks, legal practitioners and politicians. They are pluralistic in the sense that they attempt to hear all types of voices on a particular subject, including subaltern ones. This wide mix is sustainable because electronic journals, unlike their hardcopy sisters, need not have problems of space or be hung up about the audience in ways that paper journals are. Our intention is to bridge the divide between academic and practitioner work, between different intellectual traditions world-wide.
Electronic journals are likely to have a much wider audience than that of esoteric paper journals.
Firstly the audience is global. We are aware that there is information poverty between the rich countries and the poor ones. It can overcome the distance between the author and the reader by promoting comment and conferencing facilities. We fully intend to do this. The publication dates are timely and the journals therefore have a fresh contemporary feel to the material in them.