CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue 2027: Human, Precarity, and Vulnerability

In recent years, the world has been shaped by overlapping crises, including political conflicts, economic inequality, social instability, global pandemics, digital disruption, and environmental collapse. These conditions have intensified experiences of precarity and vulnerability, making both defining features of contemporary life. Precarity and vulnerability are often understood primarily through the language of crisis, violence, and loss. Yet they may also become conditions from which new forms of knowledge, relationality, resistance, imagination, care, and liveable futures emerge.

This special issue welcomes original research articles that explore questions of precarity and vulnerability across disciplines, perspectives, and methodologies. We invite contributions that examine precarity and vulnerability not merely as conditions of destruction or limitation, but as critical sites for rethinking human life, ethics, sociality, memory, embodiment, resilience, care, and survival in the contemporary world.

We welcome submissions from the following fields, including but not limited to: Humanities; Social Sciences; Anthropology; Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Studies; Disability Studies; Violence and Trauma Studies; Memory Studies; Media, Film, and Communication Studies; Digital Humanities; and other related areas of humanistic research.

The submission deadline is 30 November 2026. Accepted papers will be considered for publication in this special issue, scheduled for June 2027.

 

Submission and Review Process

Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the Guest Editor, Dr. Thirayut Sangangamsakun, at thirayut.san@cmu.ac.th

Following an initial editorial screening, suitable manuscripts will be invited to enter the formal peer-review process. The Chiang Mai University Journal of Humanities uses the TCI-ThaiJO manuscript management system to administer peer review. Authors whose submissions pass the initial screening will be asked to register with the system, if they do not already have an account.

All submissions are subject to a double-blind peer-review process. In accordance with the standards of the Thai national journal system, each manuscript is evaluated by at least three external reviewers, whose comments and recommendations are returned to the author for revision where appropriate. The journal's review process complies with the requirements for publications recognized for academic promotion within the Thai higher education system.

 

Important Dates

30 November 2026: Submission deadline for editorial consideration

By 30 March 2027: Expected completion of the peer-review process and notification of reviewers' comments

30 April 2027: Deadline for submission of final revised manuscripts

30 June 2027: Expected publication of the special issue

 

Format and Manuscript Preparation

Manuscripts may be submitted in Thai or English. All manuscripts should be professionally language-edited before submission.

Manuscripts should be prepared in accordance with the journal's formatting and style guidelines, available at: https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JHUMANS/information/authors

Manuscripts should not exceed 20 pages when formatted according to the journal guidelines. Each manuscript must include an abstract of no more than 300 words and 3–5 keywords.

The journal follows the author–date citation system based on the latest edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). Both in-text citations and the reference list must conform to APA style.

Use double quotation marks for quotations, except where "a quotation is 'within' a quotation." Quotations of 40 words or more should be presented as block quotations without quotation marks, in accordance with APA guidelines.

Manuscripts must be accompanied by a cover letter and submitted to the Guest Editor via the email address provided above. A cover letter template is available on the CMUJH website.

For further information, please visit the CMUJH website: https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JHUMANS  

 

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