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
Deadlines for submission of articles, notes, news and book reviews
Vol. 33 (1) June 2012
Deadline
for all initial submission of articles January 10th 2012 (book reviews deadline
- April 1st)
Vol. 33 (2) December 2012
Deadline
for all initial submission of articles April 1st 2012 (book reviews October 1st)
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
VOLUME XXXII (2) December
2011
South Sudanese diaspora in Australasia
Jay Marlowe
The Sudan-born in Australia: A statistical profile
David Lucas, Monica Jamali & Barbara Edgar
Sudanese heritage and living in Australia: Implications of demography for
individual and community resilience
Julie Robinson
Convenient labels, inaccurate representations: Turning Southern Sudanese
refugees into ‘African-Australians’
Melissa Phillips
Agency and belonging: Southern Sudanese former refugees’ reflections on life in
Australia
Janecke Wille
Sudanese settlement: Employing strategies of intercultural contact and cultural
maintenance
Jay Marlowe
Blocked opportunity and threatened identity: Understanding experiences of
disrespect in South Sudanese Australians
Ibolya Losoncz
South Sudanese communities and Australian family law: A clash of systems
Danijela Milos
Positive parenting: Integrating Sudanese traditions and New Zealand styles of
parenting. An evaluation of Strategies with Kids - Information for Parents
(SKIP)
Santino Atem Deng & Fiona Pienaar
The Settlers’ dream: Resettlement experiences of Sudanese refugees in New
Zealand
Julius Marete
No room in my car
Priscella Engall
Tribute – Wangari Maathai (1940-2011)
Maureen Boyle
VOLUME XXXII (1) June 2011
The Nubians of
Kenya and the emancipatory potential of collective recognition
Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
Policy and governance issues in Kenya's border towns: The case of Wajir
groundwater management
Abdi Dahir Osman, Vivian Lin, Priscilla Robinson & Darryl Jackson
Conserving exploitation: A political ecology of forestry policy in Sierra
Leone
Paul G. Munro & Greg Hiemstra-van der Horst
Oil, environment and resistance in Tanure Ojaide's The tale of the
harmattan
Ogaga Okuyade
Looking beyond the Benin bronze head: Provisional notes on culture,
nation and cosmopolitanism
Kudzai Matereke
The Badcock Collection from the Upper Congo
Barry Craig
VOLUME XXXI (2) December 2011
Urbanisation, urban poverty reduction and
non-Governmental Organisations' (NGDOs) intervention mechanisms in Malawi
Jonathon Makuwira
The safeguarding of international shipping: A solution to Somali piracy?
Emily Bienvenue
Fifty years of Nigerian independence: Governance in a multi-ethnic
Nation-state
Basil A. Ekot
Human Rights activism and the silencing of women
Rachel Outhred
Music for a coup - "Armée
Guinéenne": An overview of Guinea's recent political turmoil
Graeme Counsel
VOLUME XXXI (1) June 2010
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 both ways: 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