Welcome warmly to the Inquietações Journal. Receiving you in this space is, above all, an affirmation that knowledge must circulate. That critical reflection needs a home. That thought cannot be confined by formal barriers when it springs from an ethical commitment to research, to responsible writing, and to public dialogue.

The Inquietações Journal emerges as a space for the democratization of knowledge, attentive listening, and organized, publicized, and shared intellectual exchanges. It is grounded in constitutional principles that guarantee education as a right for all (art. 205 of the Federal Constitution), the freedom to learn, teach, research, and disseminate thought (art. 206), as well as freedom of expression for intellectual, scientific, and communication activities (art. 5, IX). These provisions are not merely legal norms; they are civilizational commitments.

We believe that the right to research, write, and disseminate knowledge should not be conditioned exclusively on formal markers of academic degrees. Knowledge is a historical, collective, and social construction. It is made in the university, but also in territories, schools, social movements, and in lived experiences reflected upon with rigor and responsibility.

As editor and organizer of the Inquietações Journal, I inform you that we are making the final technical and institutional adjustments with the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) to request the ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) for the Inquietações Journal. This is an important step toward consolidating the journal's place in the field of scientific periodicals, increasing its visibility and ensuring a wider reach for the works published here.

However, more important than an identifier number is the purpose that drives us: to create an editorial space committed to quality, to theoretical and methodological plurality, and to respect for different perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Our editorial policy is guided by respect for diversity of approaches, interdisciplinary dialogue, and responsible evaluation of submissions. Submitted texts will be assessed with academic criteria, ethics, and a commitment to intellectual integrity, seeking to strengthen an environment of serious, critical, and transformative production.

We invite everyone to actively participate in this project. We invite researchers, professors, poets, photographers, students, independent intellectuals, and authors committed to critical thinking to share their knowledge in the universe of academic journals — without being required, as an exclusionary filter, a title that, like time, inevitably fades away. What remains is the consistency of the argument, intellectual honesty, and the courage to think.

We also invite everyone to the journal's launch event. A certificate of participation in a free course will be issued, valid under Law nº 9.394/1996 (Brazilian National Education Guidelines and Framework Law), especially as set forth in art. 43 regarding extension activities and complementary training in higher education.

We believe in continuing education as a permanent practice and in the recognition of formative experiences that broaden intellectual horizons.

Expanded abstracts will be evaluated and published on a rolling basis until the end of the year, ensuring dynamism and constant updating of the sections. The rules for participating in the event and guidelines for writing the expanded abstract are detailed in the previous issue of the journal. The form for submitting the material remains available at the following link: https://forms.gle/9JT9RkX2Gdf5vSmEA

For the other sections, we recommend a careful reading of the “Guidelines for Authors” tab, where you will find the editorial guidelines, formatting criteria, and important information for submission.

Journal Sections

In this second issue, on a rolling basis, we have the following sections:

• Expanded Abstracts
• Essays
• Book Reviews
• Translations
• Thematic Photography
• Experience Reports
• Tributes

The Thematic Photography section will be dedicated to the city of Caicó/RN. Our purpose is to preserve and value the architectural and cultural beauties of our city, building a historical collection of its landscapes, its clear sky, its unforgettable sunsets, its people, and its culture. More than visual records, we seek image‑based narratives: new perspectives on old stories, memories that dialogue with the present, and images that help us understand who we are.

The Inquietações Journal is, above all, a collective project. It will only fully exist with the engagement of its authors, readers, reviewers, and collaborators. Every submitted text, every reading, every debate sparked is part of building this space.

May this issue be the beginning — or continuity — of a restless, committed, and generous intellectual movement. May it be a year of many inquiries: theoretical, methodological, political, and human.