Aims and Scope
The Journal of Pluresilience and Humanities is an international journal publishing humanities-based, interdisciplinary research on resilience grounded in critical community resilience. The journal treats resilience as a key concept in policy and practice across development, social policy, economic life, security, and environmental governance. It publishes theoretical, interpretive, and critical scholarship that examines how resilience is defined, adopted, and used in specific social, political, and cultural settings.
The Journal of Pluresilience and Humanities approaches resilience as a dynamic political process. The journal examines how vulnerability is produced and governed, how costs and risks are allocated, and how indicators, metrics, and policy design shape problem definitions and debates over intervention. It also welcomes work on how resilience and resistance intersect in everyday life and politics, and on how art, culture, media, narrative, and memory shape meaning-making after crisis and the rebuilding of social life in the aftermath. The aims to clarify what resilience does, where it fails, and what alternatives it makes possible.
Core Topics
- Critical resilience studies; neoliberal governance, risk, and responsibility
- Vulnerability and inequality; costs and risks
- Indicators, metrics, policy design, institutions, and urban or regional resilience discourses
- Resilience and resistance in everyday practices and everyday politics
- Art, culture, media, narrative, and memory in post-crisis meaning-making
- Disasters, climate, and socio-ecological crises; cultural responses
The journal foregrounds humanities-centered questions and interpretive, critical methods. Submissions focused mainly on technical or engineering solutions, system modeling, clinical or experimental work in health-related fields, operational manuals, program evaluations, or statistics-driven analyses are generally outside the journal's scope. For consideration, they need to be clearly anchored in a humanities-based research question and offer a critical theoretical contribution.
Readership
The journal is intended for scholars and graduate students working on humanities-based, interdisciplinary resilience research. It is also relevant to public-sector and civil-society practitioners and activists working with resilience in policy, institutional, and cultural settings.
Types of Content
The journal publishes Research Articles, Review Articles, Editorials, and Notes. Notes are shorter pieces that offer focused critical arguments on concepts, methods, or data.
Sponsorship
Journal of Pluresilience and Humanities is hosted, developed, and financially supported by the Humanities Institute of Chonnam National University as the sole sponsoring and operating institution. The institute supports core journal costs, including editorial administration, copyediting and production coordination, platform management, international outreach, and support for special issues. Editorial decisions are made by the journal's editorial board.
Open Access and Licensing
Journal of Pluresilience and Humanities is fully open access. All content is freely available online immediately upon publication, and the journal does not charge article processing charges (APCs).
Copyright remains with the authors. Articles are published under a Creative Commons license, with CC BY 4.0 as the journal's default. This license allows sharing, redistribution, and reuse, including commercial reuse, provided that proper attribution is given.
Publication Details
Print ISSN: 0000-0000
Online ISSN: 0000-0000
Publication frequency: Biennial
Submissions: English-language submissions only