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ISSN: 1447-9508

The International Journal of the Humanities provides a space for dialogue and publication of new knowledge which builds on the past traditions of the humanities whilst setting a renewed agenda for their future. The humanities are a domain of learning, reflection and action, and a place of dialogue between and across epistemologies, perspectives and content areas. It is in these unsettling places that the humanities might be able to unburden modern knowledge systems of their restrictive narrowness.

Discussions in The International Journal of the Humanities range from the broad and speculative to the microcosmic and empirical. Its over-riding concern, however, is to redefine our understandings of the human and mount a case for the disciplinary practices of the humanities. At a time when the dominant rationalisms are running a course that often seem draw humanity towards less than satisfactory ends, this journal reopens the question of the human—for highly pragmatic as well as redemptory reasons.

The journal is relevant for academics across the whole range of humanities disciplines, research students, educators—school, university and further education—anyone with an interest in, and concern for the humanities.

The International Journal of the Humanitiesis peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published.

The New Directions in the Humanities knowledge community publishes into a family of journals. This consists of a series of thematically focused journals, as well as a highlights journal that republishes a selection of articles for the thematic journals. All papers accepted for publication will appear in one of the following thematic journals:

The International Journal of Humanities Education
The International Journal of Literary Humanities
The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies
The International Journal of Communication and Linguistic Studies
The International Journal of Civic, Political, and Community Studies

Each of these journals has the subtitle: ‘A section of The International Journal of the Humanities’.

The highlights journal consists only of reprints of articles from the thematic journals. It contains top-ranked articles and works by invited contributions, including plenary speakers from the Humanities Conference. This is not a second publication of an article. As the subtitle of the highlights journal clearly indicates, this journal only consists of reprints.

Authors can request which of the thematic journals they would prefer for the publication of their article. Alternatively, when the author does not opt to make a selection, the Common Ground editorial team will curate each paper into the appropriate thematic journal.