Global Review of Humanities, Arts, and Society (GRHAS) publishes scholarship that explains how cultural meanings, artistic practices and social relationships are produced, interpreted and transformed. It provides a meeting place for humanities research, arts inquiry and social analysis, with particular attention to the historical and cultural conditions in which people create knowledge and organise collective life.

Intellectual purpose

The journal seeks contributions that make a sustained argument, develop an interpretation or explain a social or cultural process. A submission should locate its question within an identifiable scholarly conversation and demonstrate how its analysis changes that conversation. Close attention to a text, object, performance, community or institution is welcome when the article establishes the significance of that material for a wider question.

GRHAS supports dialogue across disciplines and regions. Comparative work should explain why the cases or traditions belong in the same analysis, attend to differences in language and context, and show what comparison makes visible. Interdisciplinary work should connect its concepts and evidence through a clear research design.

Areas of research

Contributions may address philosophy and intellectual history; literary and language studies; translation and cultural exchange; visual arts, performance and artistic practice; religion and cultural life; heritage, archives and memory; media and digital cultures; identities and social inequalities; and the relationships among technology, institutions and everyday life.

Topics such as cultural participation, creative labour, public memory, education, migration and social transformation are especially suited to the journal when they connect humanistic interpretation with an analysis of social conditions. The journal welcomes work on historical materials and contemporary settings alike.

Forms of inquiry

Approaches include archival investigation, textual and visual interpretation, ethnography, comparative historical inquiry, social research and research grounded in creative practice. Authors should describe the sources, interpretive procedures or analytical methods that support their argument. Research using interviews, surveys or computational tools should explain how those materials answer the question and how their limits affect interpretation.

Practice-based contributions should connect the creative process to a research problem and provide documentation that allows readers to understand the work. Reviews, dialogues and commentaries should contribute to scholarship through synthesis, criticism or a clearly developed position.

Editorial criteria

Editors assess the contribution to knowledge, command of relevant scholarship, quality of sources and evidence, coherence of analysis and significance for the journal’s readers. Articles should make their argument accessible to specialists in the topic and to readers from neighbouring fields.

The journal publishes Original Articles, Theoretical Explorations, Case Studies, Methods & Tools, Art Practices & Reflections, Perspectives & Commentaries, Interviews & Dialogues, Book Reviews and Conference Reports & Exchanges. See Author Guidelines for preparation and recommended lengths.