Identities: 30 years on

This year has marked the 30 th anniversary of the journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.In the very first issue, our founding editor Nina Glick Schiller, set out the case for a new journal.'Cultural politics', she maintained, 'has emerged as a means of either maintaining or resisting domination' (Schiller 1994: 1), and in ways that demand fresh and dedicated analyses.This was then, as it remains now, a deep intellectual project that is related to ways in which we can conceptualise language and text, history and power, and social and cultural experience, as well as specific sites and articulations of identity.Spanning geographical registers, methodological approaches, intellectual traditions, and scales of the micro, meso and macro, Identities has some 30 years later generated a living archive through which do so.In so doing the journal has established itself as one of the leading interdisciplinary forums through which to continue these necessary analyses.While much has changed in the intervening period, therefore, the meaning of 'identity' in Identities continues to owe much to the journal's provenance on the study of ethnicity, race, decoloniality, antiracism, migration and culture.Over this period, the work of the journal has relied on the extraordinary contribution of authors, reviewers, editorial board members, journal administrators and editors, and the production and publisher teams.