The Australasian Review of African Studies
(formerly the African Studies Review and Newsletter)

ISSN No: 1447-8420

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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

Editor -
Dr. Tanya Lyons.
Academic Coordinator - Globalisation Program,
Senior Lecturer - School of Political and International Studies,
Flinders University.

Telephone (international): 61 8 8201 3588
Telephone (local): (08 8201 3588
Email: editor@afsaap.org.au

Mail to:
Dr Tanya Lyons.
SPIS
Flinders University.
GPO Box 2100.
Adelaide. 5001.
South Australia.

Co-Editor and Reviews Editor (2009) -
Dr. Geoffrey Hawker.
Senior Lecturer and Head of Department,
Department of Politics,
Division of Humanities.
Macquarie University.
NSW. 2109.
Email: geoffrey.hawker@mq.edu.au

Chair of Editorial Board -

Prof. Helen Ware.
University of New England.
Email: hware@une.edu.au
Ph: (02) 6773 2442


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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. 30 No. 2  December 2009 (Special issue on Africa in/and the World)
Submit all articles for peer review before April 30th 2009 (deadline extended until June 30th) to the ARAS Editor
Submit all Notes and News before October 15th 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 15th 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 15th 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 15th 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 15th 2011 to the ARAS Editor
All book reviews should be completed and sent to the Review Editor before August 30th  2011


Editorial Advisory Board 

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

Zimbabwe: Retrospect and Prospect
Geoffrey Hawker

Caught in the Crossfire: Writing Conflict in Two African Novels
Dianne Schwerdt
 
Things Fall Apart:
Culture, Anthropology, Literature
Russell McDougall

 
‘Embracing the Aussie Identity’: Theoretical Reflections on Challenges and Prospects for African-Australian Youths
and ‘Discipline and Punish’: Inscribing the Body and its Metaphors in Zimbabwe’s Postcolonial Crisis
Kudzai Matereke

Weaving Paid Work, Informal Sector Work and Motherhood in Harare (Zimbabwe): A New Arena For Research?
Virginia Mapedzahama

Episodes of Ambiguity: Steps towards Socialism in Zimbabwe, 1980-1985.
Kate Law

 
Digitising and Archiving Syliphone Recordings in Guinea

Graeme Counsel


Back issues of ARAS
in PDF format (Current Online Issues also available through Informit databases)

Contents from African Studies Review and Newsletter (whole issues available online soon)

   

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