Mission Statement
The Australasian Review of African Studies
aims to contribute to a better understanding of Africa in Australasia and the
western Pacific. It publishes both scholarly and generalist articles that
provide authoritative, informed, critical material on Africa and African affairs
that is interesting and readable and so available to as broad an audience as
possible, both academic and non-academic.
About
The Australasian Review of African Studies
(ARAS)
The
Australasian Review of African Studies
(ARAS), is published by the African Studies Association of Australasia and the
Pacific (AFSAAP) twice a year in June and December.
Each issue includes both scholarly and generalist articles; a book review
section (which normally includes a lengthy review essay), short notes (up to
2,000 words) on contemporary African issues and events, as well as reports on
research and professional involvement in Africa, and on African university
activities. What makes the Review distinctive as a professional journal
is this ‘mix’ of authoritative scholarly and generalist material on critical
African issues written from very different disciplinary and professional
perspectives.
The Review is available to all members of the African Studies Association
of Australia and the Pacific as part of their membership. Membership is open to
anyone interested in African affairs, and the annual subscription is modest. The
ARAS readership intersects academic, professional, voluntary agency and public
audiences and includes specialists and non-specialists and members of the
growing African community in Australia. There is also now a small but growing
international readership which extends to Africa, North America and the United
Kingdom.
As the only journal in Australia devoted to African affairs ARAS aims to
contribute to a better understanding of Africa in Australasia and the Pacific
and thus to maintain an accepted and respected focus for the academic study of
Africa in Australia. As our international readership increases we hope also to
contribute to the wider discussion of African affairs.
We hope that you will assist us in this endeavour by -
ARAS Editorial Board
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If you would wish to review
any books please contact the Review Editor
and express your interest. ***
Deadlines for
Submission of Articles, notes, news and book reviews.
Vol 29, No. 1 June and No. 2 December 2008
submissions now closed
(expected
publication date – October 2008)
Vol 30 No. 1 June 2009
Submit all articles for peer review
before November 30th 2008 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before April 30th 2008 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the
Review Editor before
December 31st 2008
Vol. 30 No. 2 December 2009
Submit all articles for peer review
before April 30th 2009 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 30th 2009 to ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the
Review Editor before August
30th 2009
Vol. 31 No. 1 June 2010
Submit all articles for peer review
before October 30th 2009 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before April 30th 2009 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the
Review Editor before
December 31st 2009
Vol. 31 No. 2 December 2010
Submit all articles for peer review
before April 30th 2010 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 30th 2010 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the
Review Editor before August
30th 2010
Vol 32 No. 1 June 2011
Submit all articles for peer review
before October 30th 2010 to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before April 30th 2011 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the
Review Editor before
December 31st 2010
Vol. 32 No. 2 December 2011
Submit all articles for peer review
before April 30th 2011 to the ARAS
Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 30th 2011 to the ARAS
Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the
Review Editor before August
30th 2011
Henry Bernstein
The School of Oriental & African Studies,
University of London
Martin Chanock
Law and Legal Studies, La Trobe
University, Melbourne, Victoria
Martin Doornbos
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague,
The Netherlands
David Dorward
African Research Institute, La Trobe
University, Melbourne, Victoria
Norman Etherington
History Department, University of Western
Australia, Nedlands, WA
David Goldsworthy
Political and Social Enquiry, Monash
University, Melbourne, Victoria
Gareth Griffiths
English Dept. SUNY Albany, 1400 Washington
Ave, Albany NY 12210, USA
Penelope Hetherington
History Department, University of Western
Australia, Nedlands, WA
Martin Klein
History Department, University of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
Anthony Low
Research School of Pacific & Asian
Studies, A.N.U., Canberra, ACT
Scott MacWilliam
National Centre for Development Studies,
A.N.U. Canberra, ACT
Thomas Spear
Department of History, The University of
Wisconsin at Madison
Christine Sylvester
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague,
The Netherlands
Joan Wardrop
Department of Social Sciences, Curtin University of
Technology, Bentley, WA
Some recent ARAS articles
Volume XXVIII 2006/2007
The Sexual Theme in a West African
Demographic Research Programme
Em. Prof. "Jack" Caldwell
A Note on Tensions in African-Australian Families and the Australian
Family Court
Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe
In the Shadow of War: Australia's relations with Sudan from Gordon to the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement and Beyond
Wendy Levy
"Undergoing untold hardships"? The "native shippers" of
Lagos and the Origins of West African Nationalism
Peter Yearwood
The Subtle Connection between the Greater Ethiopian Image, the Ideology of Blaming and Silencing, and the Cult of Emperor Haile Selassie
Jeylan Wolyie Hussein