About the Journal

Aims and Scope

Gnosi: An International Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal published in English, with occasional contributions in French, by the Gnosi Research School in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Calabar, Nigeria. Established in 2018, the journal is dedicated to publishing high-quality, theoretically grounded scholarship that advances critical understanding of the human condition. The name Gnosi, derived from the Greek gnosis (knowledge), reflects the journal's commitment to intellectual rigour and to scholarship that bridges theoretical inquiry and practical application.

Gnosi is international in its editorial leadership, reviewer pool, and authorship. Its Editorial Board includes scholars based across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, and its reviewers are drawn from a global pool of specialists. The journal welcomes submissions from scholars worldwide and particularly encourages work from those based in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where scholarly voices remain underrepresented in international literature. Its aim is to foster genuinely global scholarly dialogue.

Gnosi publishes original research articles, review essays, book reviews, and commentaries that engage critically with the theoretical, interpretive, or policy dimensions of their subject matter. All research articles and review essays undergo rigorous double-blind peer review by at least two independent scholars with demonstrated expertise and publication records in the relevant field. Reviewers are selected on the basis of subject expertise, and conflicts of interest are managed in accordance with COPE guidance. Book reviews and commentaries are assessed internally by the editorial team. The journal is committed to maintaining the highest standards of academic integrity and adheres to the COPE guidelines on publication ethics.

Since its January–June 2025 issue, and in line with its commitment to scholarly depth over breadth, Gnosi has refined its editorial focus to the following specialised fields:

Digital Humanities: Critical and theoretical approaches to digital technology, AI ethics, digital archives, and computational methods in humanistic inquiry.
Environmental Humanities: Ecocriticism, environmental philosophy, climate ethics, and the cultural dimensions of ecological crisis.
Medical Humanities: Bioethics, narrative medicine, health justice, and the philosophical and cultural dimensions of illness, care, and dying.
Cultural Heritage Studies: Critical heritage theory, memory studies, museum studies, and the politics of preservation and commemoration.
Indigenous Studies: Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, decolonial theory, land and sovereignty, and relational philosophies of community, personhood, and being.
Philosophical Thanatology: Theoretical and cross-cultural approaches to death, dying, posthumous existence, and the ethics of mortality. This field intersects with Medical Humanities and Cultural Heritage Studies.
Political & Economic Humanities in Africa: Critical political economy, governance, development ethics, and the philosophical and historical foundations of African political and economic life. This field prioritises interpretive, theoretical, and critical approaches.
Public Economics, Taxation & Development Finance: Fiscal policy and revenue mobilisation, tax administration and compliance, public expenditure and budgeting, debt sustainability, and the role of fiscal systems in development and state-building. This field welcomes both qualitative and quantitative approaches, including econometric analysis of fiscal data, provided that submissions engage with the policy and developmental implications of their findings for African and Global South contexts.
Theology & Religious Studies: Critical and contextual theology, philosophy of religion, and the study of religious practice and belief.

Manuscripts that do not clearly fall within these defined fields, or that lack a substantive scholarly contribution, will be desk-rejected without external review. Such manuscripts include work in the natural sciences, clinical medicine, engineering, and purely technical quantitative research lacking interpretive or policy engagement. This deliberate focus enables the journal to draw on expert reviewers for each field, maintain consistent standards of peer review, and build a reputation for publishing work of genuine scholarly significance.

Gnosi prioritises the publication of work that engages with current scholarly debates and contributes to ongoing conversations in its field. The journal encourages authors to situate their work within existing literature and to demonstrate its relevance to broader interdisciplinary audiences. Through its focused scope, international editorial board, and rigorous peer review, Gnosi is committed to publishing high-calibre interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and policy-oriented social sciences.