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Asian Ethnicity
Editor: Chih-yu Shih, National Taiwan University, China Volume 12, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 1463-1369; Online ISSN: 1469-2953 In the twenty-rst century ethnic issues have assumed importance in many parts of the world. Until recently, questions of Asian ethnicity and identity have been treated in a balkanized fashion, with anthropologists, economists, historians, political scientists, sociologists and others publishing their studies in singlediscipline journals. Asian Ethnicity provides a cross-disciplinary, international venue for the publication of well-researched articles about ethnic groups and ethnic relations in the half of the world where questions of ethnicity now loom largest. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/caet
Asian Affairs
Journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs
Editor: Barney Smith, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, UK Volume 42, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 0306-8374, Online ISSN: 1477-1500 Published continuously since 1914, Asian Affairs has established an enviable reputation for its range of coverage both in articles and reviews. Asian Affairs has a multi-disciplinary approach, which includes social, political and historical perspectives as well as contemporary affairs. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/raaf
Asian Philosophy
An International Journal of the Philosophical Traditions of the East
Editors: Brian Carr, University of Exeter, UK and Indira Mahalingam Carr, University of Surrey, UK Volume 21, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 0955-2367; Online ISSN: 1469-2961 Asian Philosophy is an international journal concerned with such philosophical traditions as Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist and Islamic. The purpose of the journal is to bring these rich and varied traditions to a worldwide academic audience. It publishes articles in the central philosophical areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, moral and social philosophy, as well as in applied philosophical areas such as aesthetics and jurisprudence. It also publishes articles comparing Eastern and Western philosophical traditions. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/casp
Asian Security
Editors: Michael R. Chambers, Indiana State University, USA, Amy L. Freedman, Long Island University, USA, and Devin T. Hagerty, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA Volume 7, 3 issues per year Print ISSN 1479-9855; Online ISSN 1555-2764 Asian Security is the foremost journal on all aspects of national and international security in Asia. The journal publishes original articles that cover traditional issues like interstate warfare, the regional balance of power, alliances and other multilateral security institutions, national defense policies, strategic culture, civilmilitary relations, nuclear proliferation, conventional arms racing, arms control, and conict-prone areas, as well as new security issues like the stability of democratic transitions, globalization and its backlash, ethnic conict, insurgency and counterinsurgency, failing states, and transnational terrorism. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/fasi
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Contemporary Buddhism
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Editors: Kate Crosby and Andrew Skilton, both at School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK Founding Editors: Michael McGhee, University of Liverpool, UK and John Peacocke, University of Bristol and Sharpham College, UK Volume 12, 2 issues per year Print ISSN: 1463-9947, Online ISSN: 1476-7953 LISTED IN THE THOMSON REUTERS ARTS & HUMANITIES CITATION INDEX Contemporary Buddhism is an international peer-review journal that publishes articles on the current state and inuence of Buddhism from across the human sciences. The journal is cross-disciplinary in its outlook and in addition to Buddhist and Religious Studies approaches, presents work from philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists, historians, theologians and political scientists. Contemporary Buddhism examines the historical, doctrinal, literary, social and political developments that have formed contemporary versions of Buddhism, East and West. In all this Buddhism is predicated as an inhabited and relevant action-inuencing worldview. The interests of Contemporary Buddhism include: the meeting of Buddhism with western culture the current self-understanding of different traditions of Buddhism and the relations between these traditions the relations of Buddhism to other world religious traditions, both in mutual appreciation and in conict Buddhism in application within societies, Western and Asian the uptake of Buddhism into other elds and disciplines spotlighting issues arising for Buddhism in the 21st century the non-partisan representation of all schools of Buddhism the active investigation of diversity in the development of Buddhism as we see it today. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcbh
Ethnopolitics
Editors: Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham, UK and Professor Karl Cordell, University of Plymouth, UK Volume 10, 4 issues per year Print ISSN: 1744-9057 Online ISSN: 1744-9065 Ethnopolitics is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal which provides a forum for serious debate and exchange on one of the phenomena that had a decisive impact during the last decades of the 20th century and continues to be of great importance in the new millennium. The journal gives a voice to established as well as younger researchers and analysts from academic as well as practitioner backgrounds. Ethnopolitics maintains a fair balance between theoretical analyses and case studies both of comparative as well as singular nature, covering all geographic areas. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/reno
Europe-Asia Studies
Editor: Terry Cox, University of Glasgow, UK Volume 63, 10 issues per year Print ISSN: 0966-8136, Online ISSN: 1465-3427 2009 Impact Factor: 0.634 Ranking: 12/44 (Area Studies); 59/112 (Political Science); 141/245 (Economics) 2010 Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports Europe-Asia Studies is the principal academic journal in the world focusing on the history and current political, social and economic affairs of the countries of the former communist bloc of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and Asia. At the same time, the journal explores the economic, political and social transformation of these countries and the changing character of their relationships with the rest of Europe and Asia. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ceas
Japan Forum
Journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies
Editor: Angus Lockyer, SOAS, University of London, UK Volume 23, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 0955-5803; Online ISSN: 1469-932X Japan Forum, the ofcial journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies publishes original research in the multidisciplinary eld of Japanese Studies, with articles in subject areas ranging from archaeology, language, literature, philosophy and culture to history, economics, politics, international relations and law. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rjfo
Japanese Studies
Editor: Judith Snodgrass, University of Western Sydney, Australia Volume 31, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 1037-1397; Online ISSN: 1469-9338 Japanese Studies is a fully refereed journal publishing original, high-quality, scholarly articles on various aspects of Japan, as well as book and lm reviews. It has an international editorial board and readership and is published three times a year, in May, September and December. The journal is multidisciplinary, publishing papers across a range of areas to reect the diversity of current professional interest in Japan. Recent issues have carried papers on postwar politics and society, international relations, environmental issues, business and economics, literature, history, the legal system, gender studies, Japanese media, lm and popular culture. It regularly includes papers on Japanese language teaching. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cjst
India Review
Editor: Eswaran Sridharan, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, India Volume 10, 4 issues per year Print ISSN: 1473-6489; Online ISSN: 1557-3036 India Review is a quarterly refereed journal that publishes scholarly research on the issues central to Indian politics, economics and society. The journal combines theoretical rigor, substance knowledge, and policy relevance, and serve as a serious academic forum for understanding contemporary and historical developments in India. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nd
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Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
The International Scholarly Journal of the Chinese Economic Association of UK (CEA-UK)
Editor-in-Chief: Xiaming Liu, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Volume 9, 4 issues per year Print ISSN: 1476-5284 Online ISSN: 1476-5292 Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies is a peer-reviewed journal aiming to publish current and relevant ndings from cutting edge research in Chinese economic, business and related issues. More specically, it aims: to provide a forum for exchange of information and ideas among people in academic, business and government professions who are interested in the Chinese economy, to foster and enhance research activities that advance knowledge in transition economies, to discuss the relevance of Chinese economic and business studies to our society. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rcea
Population Studies
Managing Editor: John Simons, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Volume 65, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 0032-4728, Online ISSN: 1477-4747 For over half a century, Population Studies has reported signicant advances in methods of demographic analysis, conceptual and mathematical theories of demographic dynamics and behaviour, and the use of these theories and methods to extend scientic knowledge and to inform policy and practice. The Journals coverage of this eld is comprehensive: applications in developed and developing countries; historical and contemporary studies; quantitative and qualitative studies; analytical essays and reviews. The subjects of papers range from classical concerns, such as the determinants and consequences of population change, to such topics as family demography and evolutionary and genetic inuences on demographic behaviour. Often the Journals papers have had the effect of extending the boundaries of its eld. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rpst
National Identities
Editors: Peter Catterall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, David Kaplan, Kent State University, USA, Ele Rembold, Social Science Research Centre Berlin, Germany and Christopher Vernon, University of Western Australia Volume 13, 4 issues per year Print ISSN: 1460-8944, Online ISSN: 1469-9907 National Identities explores the formation and expression of national identity from antiquity to the present day. It examines the role in forging identity of cultural (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with the other etc.) and political (state forms, wars, boundaries) factors, by examining how these have been shaped and changed over time. The historical signicance of nationin political and cultural terms is considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class. The focus is on identity, rather than on contingent political forms that may express it. The journal is not prescriptive or proscriptive in its approach. Instead, it acts as a forum within which the growing number of scholars working in this eld can explore this important subject. Comparative perspectives are encouraged, and the journal features regular review essays as well as book reviews. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nationalidentities
Post-Communist Economies
Formerly Communist Economies and Economic Transformation
Editor: Roger Clarke, University of Glasgow, UK Volume 23, 4 issues per year Print ISSN: 1463-1377 Online ISSN: 1465-3958 Post-Communist Economies publishes key research and policy articles in the analysis of post-communist economies. The basic transformation in the past two decades through stabilisation, liberalisation and privatisation has been completed in virtually all of the former communist countries, but despite the dramatic changes that have taken place, the post-communist economies still form a clearly identiable group, distinguished by the impact of the years of communist rule. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cpce
Patterns of Prejudice
Editors: David Cesarani, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, Tony Kushner, University of Southampton, UK and Barbara Rosenbaum, University of Southampton, UK Volume 45, 5 issues per year Print ISSN: 0031-322X, Online ISSN: 1461-7331 2009 Impact Factor: 0.575 Ranking: 7/10 (Ethnic Studies) 2010 Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports Patterns of Prejudice provides a forum for exploring the historical roots and contemporary varieties of social exclusion and the demonization or stigmatisation of the Other. It probes the language and construction of race, nation, colour, and ethnicity, as well as the linkages between these categories. It encourages discussion of issues at the top of the public policy agenda, such as asylum, immigration, hate crimes and citizenship. As none of these issues are conned to any one region, Patterns of Prejudice maintains a global optic, at the same time as scrutinizing intensely the history and development of intolerance and chauvinism in the United States and Europe, both East and West. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rpop
Scando-Slavica
FREQUENCY INCREASE TO 2 ISSUES PER YEAR Editor-in-Chief: Jens Nrgrd-Srensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Volume 57, 2 issues per year Print ISSN: 0080-6765, Online ISSN: 1600-082X Scando-Slavica is a peer-reviewed, annual international publication for Slavic and Baltic philology, literature, history and archaeology edited by the Association of Scandinavian Slavists and Baltologists. The journal presents articles of a cross-disciplinary nature and is an integral part of the Nordic and Baltic network of research. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ssla
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Sikh Formations
Religion, Culture, Theory
INCREASING TO 3 ISSUES PER YEAR IN 2011 Editors: Pal Ahluwalia, University of South Australia, Australia, Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, University of Michigan, USA and Gurharpal Singh, University of Birmingham, UK Volume 7, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 1744-8727, Online ISSN: 1744-8735 Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory was founded to understand Sikhs, Sikhism, and Sikh Identity within the context of a new and dynamic setting that embraces globalisation, trans nationalism, and other related processes. In particular the journal aims to: dene a new cultural and intellectual space for Sikhs and Sikhism both within Punjab and the emerging diaspora examine the politics of knowledge and comparative cultural theory as it arises at the intersections between contemporary Sikh experience, the study of Sikhism and the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences promote enquiry into and critical reection upon the cultural, philosophical, religious, historical and political developments within Sikhism explore the self-understanding of these traditions and their mutual relations examine the dialogue and inter-religious relations between Sikhism and other world spiritual traditions. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsfo
Social Identities
Editors: Pal Ahluwalia, University of South Australia, Australia and Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside, USA Volume 17, 6 issues per year Print ISSN: 1350-4630, Online ISSN: 1363-0296 Recent years have witnessed considerable worldwide changes concerning social identities such as race, nation and ethnicity, as well as the emergence of new forms of racism and nationalism as discriminatory exclusions. Social Identities aims to furnish an interdisciplinary and international focal point for theorizing issues at the interface of social identities. The journal is especially concerned to address these issues in the context of the transforming political economies and cultures of postmodern and postcolonial conditions. Social Identities is intended as a forum for contesting ideas and debates concerning the formations of, and transformations in, socially signicant identities, their attendant forms of material exclusion and power, as well as the political and cultural possibilities opened up by these identications. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/socialidentities
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Contemporary Social Science
Formerly 21st Century Society Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences
Editor: David Canter, AcSS, Emeritus Professor, University of Liverpool and Director, International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology, The University of Hudderseld Volume 6, 3 issues per year Print ISSN: 1745-0144; Online ISSN: 2158-205X This interdisciplinary, cross-national journal provides a forum for disseminating and enhancing theoretical, empirical and/or pragmatic research across the social sciences and related disciplines. Reecting the objectives of the Academy of Social Sciences, it emphasises the publication of work that engages with issues of major public interest and concern across the world, and highlights the implications of that work for policy and professional practice. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rsoc
Oriental Insects
NEW IN 2011
Editor-in-Chief: V.V. Ramamurthy, Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute Volume 45, 4 issues per year 2009 Impact Factor: 0.230 2010 Thomson Reuters, Journal Citation Reports Oriental Insects is devoted to publication of original research articles and reviews on the taxonomy, ecology, biodiversity and evolution of insects and other land arthropods of the Old World tropics. Papers having a bearing on the subjects mentioned above or on related fauna will also be accepted. Revisionary papers are given preference. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/toin
Ethnomusicology Forum
Journal of the British Forum for Ethnomusicology
Editors: Laudan Nooshin, City University, London, UK and Simone Kruger, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Volume 20, 2 issues per year Print ISSN: 1741-1912, Online ISSN: 1741-1920 Ethnomusicology Forum seeks to provide a dynamic forum for the presentation of new thinking in the eld of ethnomusicology, dened broadly as the study of people making music, and encompasses the study of all music, including Western art music and popular music. Articles often emphasise rst-hand, sustained engagement with people as music makers, taking the form of ethnographic writing following one or more periods of eldwork. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/remf
Wasari
Listed in the Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index Editor: Susheila Nasta, Open University, UK Volume 26, 4 issues per year Print ISSN: 0269-0055, Online ISSN: 1747-1508 Since the rst issue was published in 1984, Wasari has always opened minds and crossed literary worlds. The magazine remains key in mapping new literary landscapes and offering the best of contemporary international writing today, consistently featuring Britains diverse cultural heritage whilst also highlighting the vast range of worldwide diasporic and migrant literature. Wasari, the Kiswahili word for travellers, captures our ethos: to travel the world via the word to extend and challenge the established boundaries of literary culture. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/wasari
World Art
NEW IN 2011
Editors: George Lau, Lecturer, Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas, UK Daniel Rycroft, Lecturer in the Arts and Cultures of Asia, School of World Art Studies and Museology, UK and Veronica Sekules, Head of Education and Research, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UK all at the University of East Anglia, UK Volume 1, 2 issues per year Print ISSN: 2150-0894, Online ISSN: 2150-0908 Making, using and learning from artworks is fundamental to human social life and sensory engagement. In the context of the reassessment of the collecting, display and interpretation of cultures, the study of art as a global human activity challenges categories of mainstream and marginalised arts and allows new histories to emerge, highlighting different standpoints and disciplines. World Art encourages critical reection at the intersections of theory, method and practice. It provides a forum for redening the concept of art for scholars, students and practitioners, for rethinking artistic and interpretive categories and for addressing cultural translation of art practices, canons and discourses. It promotes innovative and comparative approaches for studying human creativity, past and present. www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rwor
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