International Quarterly for Asian Studies

Aims & Scope

IQAS provides a platform for multidisciplinary research on current and historical topics relevant to, among others, politics, economics, culture, nature, religion, language, society, science and technology in Asia. It serves to promote fresh scholarly enquiry on Asia from within the humanities and the social sciences, and to encourage work that communicates across disciplinary and regional boundaries. It seeks to foster cross-disciplinary cooperation, translocal and transregional analysis, comparative perspectives, and research going beyond established meta-geographies and conventional container categories in Area Studies. Authors employ up-to-date theoretical or methodological approaches, particularly those originating from Asia and the wider region. IQAS adopts an innovative approach to Area Studies, inviting critical views of knowledge production, generation and dissemination on Asia. It is committed to an understanding of space as multi-sited and multi-modal, including non-territorial and non-geographical understandings of spatial entities. This approach allows for transversal outreach and an explicit inclusion of local epistemologies and context-sensitive studies. We welcome contributions addressing readers in and beyond the scholarly world. We accept submissions from all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including anthropology, cultural studies, development studies, economics, environmental studies, geography, history, international relations, literatures and languages, political economy, politics, social policy and sociology.

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