ASEAS CfP SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

ASEAS 6(1) - Focus SOCIAL MOVEMENTS DEADLINE 31 Dec 2012

The upcoming issue 6(1) of the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies will feature a focus on Social Movements in South-East Asia, and will aim at bringing together established scholars and junior researchers from various academic fields in order to do the interdisciplinary nature of this broad topic justice. Emphasis shall be placed on both structure and dynamics of social movements and their specific local contextualisation as well as transnational predicaments. The intersection of this issue with larger topics of political and economic systems, labour, migration, health, environment, and peace, but also with aspects of culture, religion, gender, age, race and class, shifting along multiple scales and dimensions, shall contribute to a diversified approach of the publication.

If you intend to submit a paper, please contact the editorial board (aseas@seas.at), as this facilitates our planning process. Submissions dealing with one or several of the following issues are of special interest to the board of editors:

•	Theoretical debates on social movements and conceptual challenges resulting from empirical research on recent developments; •	Social movements as genuine political actors and their relations to state, NGOs, and other institutionalised public and private actors; •	Strategic alliances, interventions, and collective action on local, national, and international scale and the role of transnational networks; •	Collective action, labour and trade unions, and their local, regional, cultural, and national specificities in the settings of influential global economic forces and neoliberal reforms; •	Urban movements, mobilisation, and the contestation of local policies and national regimes; •	Social media and digital space as the new environments for mobilisation, organisation, and protest; •	Civil rights movements and the construction of transnational solidarity across ethnic, religious, and geopolitical boundaries; •	Negotiation and contestation of difference within social movements – distinctions of culture, religion, gender, age, race, and class; •	Indigenous movements in connection with local policies in the settings of global networking and connectivity; •	Women’s movements and the reconfiguration of gender relations with reference to concepts of social equality and justice;

•	As always, book reviews and suggestions for interviews are welcome (for further details, please contact the board of editors).

DESCRIPTION: The Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies (ASEAS) is a core project of the Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS) in Vienna. The journal’s editors invite both established as well as young scholars to present research results and theoretical papers (scientific and journalistic texts are welcome), to report about ongoing research projects or field studies, to introduce academic as well as non-academic institutions, to publish conference reports and other short essays, to conduct interviews with experts on South-East Asia, or to review literature. Articles have to be written in German or English. As an interdisciplinary journal, ASEAS intends to cover a variety of aspects of South-East Asia (archaeology, culture, economics, geography, linguistics, politics, society, etc.) from both historical as well as contemporary perspectives. Topics should be related to South-East Asia, but they do not need to be restricted to the geographical region, as in the case of – for example – linguistics, diaspora groups, forms of socio-cultural transfers, and so forth, where spatial and political borders of South-East Asia are crossed. ASEAS is published biannually both in print and as an online Open Access-Journal. The print version is intended for universities, research institutions, public libraries, and so forth, which wish to include ASEAS into their archives. The print version can be ordered directly by e-mail from this website. The free-of-charge online Open-Access version is designed to address a wide interested public and international expert readership who are interested in single articles, but do not intend to archive all volumes. Submissions within the category “Aktuelle Südostasienforschung / Current Research on South-East Asia” are subject to a twofold double-blind review process. Submissions within other sections will be reviewed by the editorial board as well as by external reviewers if needed. For more details have a look at our Submission Guidelines.

ASEAS offers 7 different Sections or Categories: Current Research on South-East Asia, Forum South-East Asia, Research Workshop, In Dialogue, Network South-East Asia Research, South-East Asia Visually, Reviews

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