Focus and Scope
The Revista humanidades is a biannual electronic publication, of international character, attached to and edited at the University of Costa Rica, through the School of General Studies, located in the Rodrigo Facio University City, in San Pedro de Montes de Oca, San José, Costa Rica. Its objective is to disseminate academic production and research in the field of humanistic, scientific and artistic studies, as well as to promote reflection on general studies that have as a transversal axis or thematic coverage, human beings in their work and thinking. In this way, it seeks to become a space that encourages interest in the construction that humanity makes of itself.
The target audience is constituted by the international community of researchers, undergraduate and graduate students and scholars (scientists or artists) interested in a permanent or specific way in the topics and approaches of humanistic studies. It is a peer reviewed and open access publication.
Frequency of Publications
This is a biannual publication: the first issue covers the months from January to June and is published during January; the second issue covers the months from July to December and is published throughout the month of July.
The Journal receives contributions throughout the year; however, the editorial management process officially opens in the first period on February 1st and ends on April 30th, and in the second, the period begins on August 1st and ends on October 31st.
Permanent Sections
The Revista humanidades structures its sections on the premise that human beings are a reality made up of a set of diverse and complex relationships that they establish among themselves, interactions that, despite their dynamic and constantly changing nature, can nevertheless be classified into three types that encompass all human relationships:
- relations with nature
- relations with other human beings
- relations with oneself.
However, given that this classification of human relations does not respond to the academic division of knowledge with which current knowledge is produced, it is not convenient to take this classification as sections. Rather, these relations should be considered as a plexus that crosses, not vertically but horizontally, each article within each section of the journal. The latter follows the current segmentation of knowledge, but only as a starting point, in order to arrive at the production of new approaches that transcend the current fragmentation of hyper specialized knowledge that mutilates, or even makes invisible, the human which, in the end, will always be transcendent, irreducible and ungraspable in its totality, since none of its manifestations has the capacity to exhaust it.
When the current disciplinary frontiers yield in their rigidity and eliminate reductionism, the way will be opened towards a better approach to the human, in itself elusive. However, the relativization of the disciplinary boundaries does not imply falling into arbitrariness, since it does not force a rupture of all limits, but rather the opening of new ones, closely linked to the demands that the new conditions will establish, in accordance with the new understanding of the human object under investigation, always in process.
For this reason, our preference is for multidisciplinary approaches and approaches. Each of these sections brings together several particular areas in dialogue, but only as avenues of exploration or research, from which to build the study of human activity and thinking that tends to the same object of study to which the journal refers: the humanities. Therefore, with the obvious understanding that the articles it promotes do not constitute specialized approaches, but studies that aspire to a dialogical look, the journal accepts articles in accordance with the following permanent sections. Regardless of the section, all manuscripts are submitted for blind peer review, except for reviews, which will only undergo an internal review process by our Editorial Committee.
Of Arts, Literature and Communication
This section is dedicated to articles on different artistic and aesthetic manifestations (plastic, graphic, dramatic, musical, dance and others), as well as studies on literature, language and communication.
Of Ethnic, Cultural, Gender and Environmental Studies
This section presents studies that deal with the cultural manifestations of peoples, as well as culture itself. This section also includes research on gender and environmental or ecological issues.
Of Social Sciences, Philosophy and Education
This section includes articles that analyze social relations in each of its disciplinary approaches: history, sociology, anthropology, economics, psychology, political science, communication, law, international relations, philosophy and education.
Of the Exact Sciences, Technology and Epistemology
This section is devoted to articles related to exact sciences and technology, as well as epistemological topics.
Open Gallery
This section contains three sections. The first is dedicated to reviews of published books, including literary texts; the second to essays and reflections that preferably encourage multidisciplinary approaches; and the third to artistic creations such as short stories, poems, drawings, photographs and prints.