About the Journal
Human Figurations: the Journal of Social Processes is an interdisciplinary academic journal focused on understanding long-term social processes. We are inspired by the work of Norbert Elias, widely regarded as one of the most important sociologists of the twentieth century. Elias’s approach is radically processual, relational and synthetic; it comprises a model of sociology as a unifying discipline, bridging cognate disciplinary domains — particularly history, psychology, anthropology, sociology and the social sciences more generally — into a unified analytical scheme.
Open Access policy
We are a fully open access journal: all articles are open access immediately on publication. We do not use article processing charges or charge submission fess: publishing in Human Figurations is free for all authors.
Author copyright and licencing
Author(s) retain the the copyright to their published articles.
We publish articles under the default licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. If you have a funder requirement to publish under a different licence, please let us know at the submission stage.
Publication Frequency
We normally publish 1-2 issues a year.
Indexing and Abstracting
Our articles are indexed in Google Scholar and Dimensions. Our metadata is deposited with CrossRef.
Archiving
Our content is archived with the PKP Preservation Network (PKP PN) for digital preservation.
Publisher
University of Leicester Open Journals
Sponsorship
Journal History
Human Figurations was originally launched in 2012 by University of Michigan. It previously had the subtitle 'Long-Term Perspectives on the Human Condition'. The University of Leicester took over publication in 2025 and relaunched the journal under its current title and subtitle.
