Carla Malafaia, assistant professor at FPCEUP and researcher at CIIE, is one of the three new Editors-in-Chief of the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology (EJCPS), together with Taina Meriluoto, researcher at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and Laura Centemeri, researcher at CNRS (France). This new triad of journal directors held their first meeting in Paris in October. The meeting discussed, among other things, the journal's transition to the Diamond Open Access model and the organization of the first issue in 2025, when the new editorial board will officially take office for a five-year term. Carla Malafaia, Taina Meriluoto and Laura Centemeri submitted a joint application and, having gone through an interview phase and explained their editorial policy project, managed to show the strength of their plural and innovative proposal.

EJCPS is one of the official scientific journals of the European Sociological Association (ESA), and aims to be a forum for work that explores the relationship between culture and politics through a sociological lens. As such, it welcomes both considerations of cultural phenomena in relation to the political context, as well as papers that situate political phenomena within a cultural framework (https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/recp20/about-this-journal). It is a journal whose editorial board includes names such as Chantal Mouffe, Donatella della Porta, Karin Knorr Cetina, Laurent Thévenot and Paul Lichterman.

In 2025, EJCPS will be published by MIT Press, leaving Taylor & Francis/Routledge at the end of this year. EJCPS and European Societies, both from ESA, will be the inaugural journals of the shift+OPEN program, an initiative of MIT Press that aims to facilitate the transition of traditional journals to diamond open access. This program includes three years of funding for the new open access journals, editorial, production, marketing and distribution support from MIT Press and assistance in creating a sustainable open access funding model.

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