RELACult publishes thematic dossiers and opens article submissions for the 2026 editorial calendar

2025-12-22

RELACult – Latin American Journal of Cultural and Social Studies announces the results of the Call for Thematic Dossier Proposals (Edital nº 02/2025) and informs the opening of the article submission period for the dossiers that will compose the 2026 editorial calendar.

Considering the number and academic quality of the proposals received, the 2026 editorial calendar will include eight thematic dossiers, distributed across two issues throughout the year, covering different fields within the Humanities, Linguistics, Literature, Arts, and Social Sciences, with a focus on Latin America.

The official result notice and erratum are available on the CLAEC Press website:
https://claec.org/editora/?p=2209

Vol. 12, No. 01 – First semester of 2026

Submission period: January 1 to May 31, 2026
Expected publication: July 31, 2026

Dossiers:

  • Brazilian Independences: new disputes around nation-building projects

  • Lexicon, Society, Cultures and Identities

  • Cultural Diversity, Memory and Borders of Brazil

  • Political culture, hegemonic disputes and democratic reconfigurations in the South American horizon

Vol. 12, No. 02 – Second semester of 2026

Submission period: June 1 to October 31, 2026
Expected publication: December 31, 2026

Dossiers:

  • Insurgent lives: affects, vulnerabilities and pedagogies of the body

  • Leaves and Papers: interactions between social sciences and literature, ecologies and cosmologies

  • Culturality, territoriality and identity: Afro-figurations in languages

  • Digital History of Education and Educational Heritage: entanglements, potentials and research challenges

The full descriptions of each dossier, as well as the names of the coordinators, are available on the CLAEC Press website and in the journal’s news section.

Articles must be submitted exclusively through the RELACult submission system, in strict accordance with the Author Guidelines:
https://periodicos.claec.org/index.php/relacult/about/submissions

For further information or inquiries:
relacult@claec.org