About the Journal

Global Review of Humanities, Arts, and Society (GRHAS) is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing critical, interdisciplinary scholarship across the humanities, arts, and social sciences. The journal provides a scholarly platform for the systematic examination of cultural formations, artistic practices, historical processes, and social transformations within a global and comparative framework.

GRHAS is founded on the conviction that contemporary intellectual and societal challenges—such as environmental crisis, technological transformation, migration, and social inequality—cannot be adequately understood through single-disciplinary perspectives alone. The journal therefore promotes research that integrates theoretical analysis, empirical inquiry, and reflective or creative practice, fostering dialogue across disciplinary, cultural, and methodological boundaries.

Published on a bimonthly basis, GRHAS operates as an independent, non-commercial scholarly initiative. The journal is coordinated by an internationally distributed editorial team and managed through a fully virtual and decentralized infrastructure. GRHAS maintains full editorial autonomy and is unaffiliated with any commercial publisher or single institutional body.

GRHAS welcomes original and unpublished contributions that demonstrate theoretical rigor, methodological clarity, and intellectual originality. The journal publishes research articles, theoretical and conceptual essays, critical reviews, practice-based research, and other scholarly formats that contribute meaningfully to contemporary debates in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

While grounded in established disciplines such as literature, philosophy, history, sociology, anthropology, and media studies, GRHAS places particular emphasis on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Submissions that address global or transnational issues, engage critically with emerging cultural and technological conditions, or experiment with innovative scholarly forms are especially encouraged.

Rather than defining its scope through rigid disciplinary boundaries, GRHAS organizes its editorial focus around a set of thematic research areas that reflect key problem fields in contemporary scholarship.

• 1. Environmental Humanities and Planetary Thought

  Cultural, philosophical, social, and artistic responses to environmental change.

  • Climate change narratives and environmental representation
  • Environmental ethics, sustainability, and climate justice
  • Human–environment relations and multispecies studies
  • Ecocriticism, material ecologies, and planetary humanities
• 2. Migration, Mobility, and Transnational Formations

  Historical and contemporary forms of movement, displacement, and cross-border connection.

  • Migration, exile, diaspora, and refugee studies
  • Border regimes, citizenship, and belonging
  • Transnational identities and cultural hybridity
  • Mobility, precarity, and global labor
• 3. Digital Culture, Media, and Technology Studies

  Critical inquiry into the cultural and social implications of digital and technological change.

  • Digital culture, platforms, and media ecologies
  • Critical media theory and communication studies
  • AI, data culture, and algorithmic governance
  • Technology ethics, surveillance, and digital power structures
• 4. Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Global Perspectives

  Global inequalities and the legacies of colonialism in knowledge, culture, and power.

  • Postcolonial theory and decolonial thought
  • Global South perspectives and epistemic justice
  • Colonial archives, memory, and historical re-narration
  • Decolonizing methodologies in research and artistic practice
• 5. Social Justice, Activism, and Human Rights

  Critical examination of structures of power, inequality, and social transformation.

  • Social movements, activism, and political participation
  • Human rights discourse and cultural politics
  • Race, ethnicity, and structural inequality
  • Art, media, and performance as forms of social intervention
• 6. Gender, Sexuality, and Embodiment

  Theoretical and empirical studies of identity, embodiment, and lived experience.

  • Gender studies, feminist theory, and queer studies
  • Body politics, disability studies, and health humanities
  • Intersectionality and identity formation
• 7. Arts, Aesthetics, and Practice-Based Research

  Research that understands artistic practice as a form of knowledge production.

  • Visual arts, performance, and contemporary artistic practices
  • Practice-led and practice-based research methodologies
  • Curatorial studies, exhibition practices, and art criticism
• 8. Memory, History, and Public Culture

  How societies construct, contest, and transmit memory and historical knowledge.

  • Cultural memory and collective remembrance
  • Memory politics, trauma, and post-conflict narratives
  • Museums, archives, and heritage practices
• 9. Narrative, Language, and Cross-Cultural Communication

  Storytelling, language, and meaning across cultures.

  • Narrative theory and storytelling practices
  • Translation studies and translingual writing
  • Intercultural communication and ethics of representation
• 10. Knowledge Production and Methodological Reflection

  Addressing the foundations, limits, and responsibilities of scholarly inquiry.

  • Epistemology and philosophy of knowledge
  • Interdisciplinary and experimental methodologies
  • Politics of knowledge and academic institutions

GRHAS particularly encourages submissions that:

• Cross disciplinary, methodological, or cultural boundaries
• Integrate theoretical analysis with empirical or creative work
• Propose innovative research formats or hybrid scholarly forms
• Contribute critically to debates of global relevance