Human Arenas

Human Arenas welcomes the interdisciplinary study of higher psychological functions from the perspective of cultural psychology in human goal-oriented liminal phenomena in ordinary and extraordinary life conditions.

• The journal is organized around topics and arenas of human activity, rather than the traditional boundaries of academic disciplines. Descriptions of different article formats and topical arenas can be found in “Journal Updates” and should be consulted by authors before submission. Arenas address various aspects of human movement, human creation, human regulation, human knowing, and human relationships with the planet. 
• The journal promotes an innovative mix of theoretical and empirical studies, as well as qualitative and quantitative approaches based on “small data” (the analysis of crucial and meaningful data, rather than the inductive accumulation of large empirical “evidence”).
• The journal can be seen as an arena for the development of theoretical foundations and empirical horizons of a general theory of human psyche, from a counter-hegemonic, anti-colonial, and polyphonic perspective, meant to foster continuous critical dialogue with any kind of mainstream. The journal will support the development of general formal models of human phenomena, also by reflecting upon processes of abduction, generalization and theorization.
• The journal aims to provide an interdisciplinary space for debate, in which psychology can learn from other disciplines, and other social and behavioral sciences (e.g. archeology, anthropology, biosemiotics, philosophy, medicine, natural sciences, ecology, humanomics, aesthetics, sociology, art, history, etc.) can learn from psychology. The peer-review process follows the collaborative approach of the journal, and is described in more detail in the submission guidelines.