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The publication of Volume 33, Number 1 (Harmattan Edition, September/October 2026) of KÍÀBÀRÀ: Journal of the Humanities comes at a time when insecurity has become a defining feature of social life. Precarity was initially associated with unstable employment and the emergence of a class exposed to economic uncertainty (Standing, 2011). Its reach is now much wider. Political instability, environmental degradation, technological disruption, gendered vulnerability, weak institutions, and unequal access to knowledge have made insecurity a condition experienced across different spheres of life. The humanities are well placed to examine these conditions because they ask how people understand, represent, remember, and resist the forces shaping their lives. The theme of this edition, The Global Precariat, Digital Frontiers, and Structural Resistance: Interdisciplinary Intersections in the Humanities, brings these concerns together. It invites us to look beyond precarity as economic deprivation and to consider the structures, practices, and ideas through which vulnerability is produced and contested.