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
*** 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. 31 (2) December 2010
Submit all articles for peer review before April 30th 2010 to the
ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 15th 2010 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before August
30th 2010
Vol. 32 (1) June 2011
Submit all articles for peer review before October 30th 2010 to
the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before April 15th 2011 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before
December 31st 2010
Vol. 32 (2) December 2011
Special issue on Sudanese diaspora
in Australasia.
Guest Editor - Dr. Jay Marlowe, University of Auckland.
Deadline for submission - January 30th 2011
Email - jm.marlowe@auckland.ac.nz
Click here for the
Call for Papers
Chair: Helen Ware, Peace Studies Centre, University of New England
Peter Alexander, School of English, University of New South Wales
Henry Bernstein, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
David Dorward, History Program, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria
Norman Etherington, History, University of Western Australia
Gareth Griffiths, English and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia
Martin Klein, History, University of Toronto
Anthony Low, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
Scott MacWilliam, Crawford School of Economics & Government, ANU
Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe, School of Business, La Trobe University
Thomas Spear, Department of History, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Christine Sylvester, Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University
Joan Wardrop, Social Sciences, Curtin University of Technology
Some recent
ARAS articles
Australia's
re-engagement with Africa
Tanya Lyons
Adult education and community capacity building: The case of
African-Australian women in the Northern Territory
Susana Akua Saffu
Intercultural communication challenges confronting female Sudanese former
refugees in Australia
Aparna Hebbani, Levi Obijiofor & Helen Bristed
Working it bith way: Intercultural collaboration and the performativity of
identity
Anne Harris & Nyadol Nyuon
African cultural education and schooling: Towards bicultural competence of
African Australian youth
Peter Wakholi
Social or unsocial? The linkage between accommodation, health and well-being
among former Horn of Africa and Sudanese refugees living in Australia
Surjeet Dhanji
Contents from African Studies Review and Newsletter (whole issues available online soon)