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