Inaugural Editorial: Bridging Worlds: A New Forum for Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Abstract

In an era increasingly defined by specialization, we are launching Frontiers in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (FAHSS) with a deliberately contrarian belief: the most urgent and profound insights lie not within the silos of single disciplines, but in the fertile spaces between them.

Why another journal? The answer is visible in the grand challenges of our time—from climate change and digital transformation to social inequality and the crisis of democratic discourse. These problems do not present themselves as purely economic, purely sociological, or purely aesthetic. They are messy, hybrid, and deeply human. To address them, we need the historian‘s sense of context, the artist’s sensibility for form and affect, the sociologist‘s toolkit for structural analysis, and the political scientist’s understanding of power.

Frontiers in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences is not a repository for narrow specialization. Instead, we invite scholarship that moves across, between, and beyond traditional boundaries. We are interested in:

Arts as research: How do creative practices generate knowledge that complements or challenges empirical inquiry?

Humanistic perspectives on social issues: What can philosophy, history, and literary criticism contribute to our understanding of policy, law, and economic behavior?

Social-scientific rigor in cultural studies: How can quantitative and qualitative methods illuminate the production, distribution, and reception of cultural artifacts?