CALL FOR NEW EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS, ASIA PACIFIC STUDIES E-JOURNAL

New Editorial Board Members,

Asia Pacific Studies e-Journal

Call for Editorial Board Members in the Asia Pacific Social Sciences and Humanities

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce a call for new members to join the editorial board for its peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal, Asia Pacific Perspectives. We welcome editorial board applicants from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities that focus on the Asia Pacific, especially those whose research adopts a comparative, interdisciplinary approach to issues of interrelatedness in the region.

To Apply: Please email the following to the journal’s editor, Melissa Dale, at perspectives@usfca.edu:

• a copy of your CV

• a 300-500 word statement of interest

Review of applications will begin on January 16, 2024 and continue until the positions are filled.

Asia Pacific Perspectives (APP) (ISSN: 2167-1699) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access, electronic journal that promotes cross-cultural understanding, tolerance, and the dissemination of knowledge about the Asia Pacific. The journal facilitates academic discussions among both established scholars in the field and advanced graduate students. APP is published twice each year by the University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies.

For more information about Asia Pacific Perspectives, please visit our website.

What we ask of our Editorial Board Members:

• Willingness to serve a full three-year minimum term on the Board

• Assist in identifying peer reviewers for submissions in your field

• Share constructive suggestions at 2 editorial board meetings each semester

• Encourage high-quality submissions to the journal

• Promote the use and dissemination of APP in your field and among your networks

Desirable Attributes:

• Scholarly focus on areas in which our board has relatively less focus: including the Koreas, Taiwan, the Pacific Islands including the Philippines, South and/or Southeast Asia

• Has a background that can balance out the areas of expertise on our board, preferably in: cultural studies, geography, science/technology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and the environmental humanities

• Deep, meaningful, and reciprocal connections to scholarly and Asia Pacific communities

Contact Information

Melissa S. Dale, Editor

Contact Email: perspectives@usfca.edu

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CFP: VERGE ISSUE 12.1 STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIA

Verge Issue 12.1: Studies in Global Asia

“Trade in Humans”

A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.

Trade in humans is a vast and age-old engine of migration between regions in the Asia-Pacific and, since the sixteenth century, from Asia to the Americas, Africa, and Europe. This special issue of Verge seeks to illuminate both the ubiquity of the trade in Asian people and its particularities across time and space. Indispensable to both Asian polities and Western empires, to nation-building in the Americas and to the development of global capitalism, Asians as agents and objects of trade in humans also formed the core of Asian diasporas and hybridized cultures worldwide. Such circulation of Asian persons and labor profoundly influenced the formation of our modern world.

In documenting the widespread trade in Asian people, scholars have been divided on whether to call it a slave trade, with some identifying cases that clearly fit the term, while others eschew it in favor of a range of alternatives. Asian languages offer many relevant terms – such as人身売買 [Japanese for “buying and selling human bodies”] or sŏnsang nobi 選上奴婢 [Korean for “slaves selected and sent up to the capital”] – for practices that may not map neatly onto Western legal and cultural categories.

We use the term “trade in humans” in hope that this issue will engage with a broad scope of historical and contemporary forms of commodification, sale, alienation, and forced migration of Asian people. Rather than presume the forms and limits of exploitation, we seek to open up a conversation across fields and terminological silos. Topics explored may potentially range from slave trading to adoption, child marriage, resettlement, trafficking, indentured labor, “coolietude,” and military conscription.

This special issue will attend to problems of translation and the texture of human experience undergirding linguistic, legal, political, and cultural attempts to represent or obfuscate the transregional trade in humans. We seek contributions from a wide variety of fields: Asian studies and Asian American studies, history, legal studies, sociology, anthropology, and diaspora studies, among others. We welcome contributions that explore the influence of these diverse trades across all Asian regions, the Americas, and beyond, as well as local or international legacies.

Convergence Feature Proposals

One of Verge: Studies in Global Asias’ distinctive features is an opening section called Convergence, where we curate a rotating series of rubrics that emphasize collaborative intellectual engagement and exchange. Each issue features several of the following rubrics: A&Q, a responsive dialogue, either in interview or roundtable format, inspired by a set of questions; Codex, a collaborative discussion and assessment of books, films, or exhibits; Translation, for texts, primary or secondary, not yet available in English; Field Trip, reports from various subfields of the disciplines; Portfolio, commentaries on visual images; and Interface, texts exploring the resources of the print-digital world. We welcome those interested in these features to submit a Convergence proposal for the issue.

Proposals should be 1–2 pages in length and indicate what kind of feature is being proposed; demonstrate an awareness of the formats utilized by the journal; include an abstract and, if collaborative, a list of proposed contributors; and include a short (2 pg) cv.

The Convergence proposals deadline is March 15, 2024; however, we encourage those interested in submitting a proposal to contact the editors about their ideas in advance of this date. Please direct all inquiries and submissions to verge@psu.edu.

Essay Submissions

Essays (between 6,000-10,000 words) and abstracts (125 words) should be submitted electronically through this submission form by August 30, 2024 and prepared according to the author-date + bibliography format of the Chicago Manual of Style. See section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide or chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style Online for additional formatting information.

Authors’ names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate document with the author’s name, address, institutional affiliations, and the title of the article with your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the submitted text or notes if such references would identify them; any necessary references to the author’s previous work, for example, should be in the third person.

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CFP: VERGE STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS ISSUE 10.1

Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 10.1:

Special Issue: brown/ness(es)

Edited by Neelofer Qadir (University of North Carolina Greensboro), Naveen Minai (University of Toronto), and Tina Chen (Penn State).

Deadline: August 15, 2022

Feeling brown, feeling down. Feeling down, being brown. A name for law, a name for affect, a name for ontology, a name for relation, a name for not relation, a name for antagonism, a name for empire(s), a name for capital, a name for an accusation, a name that can be convenient, a name that does not work, a name that can stop working, a name for shades, a name for fantasy.

This proposed special issue considers both when brown might be useful and may be used to do the work of relation, inquiry, theory—and when brown does not work (Macharia 2013, 2016, 2019). Crucially, we reorient questions about brown and brownness away from frames centered in the continental northern Americas (Prashad 2000, Bald 2013) — and the American academy, and borders thereof in particular. We turn towards sites, relations, and geohistories imagined through terms such as (but not limited to) Indigenous, Afro-Asia, Asian- and/or African Latin America (Kim 2017, Kantor 2018), Indian Ocean, Global Asias, Inter-Asia, and more (Chen 2010). We think through how brown is shaped and weighted by different cartographic modes, for example, the Levant, Latin America, Africa, and archipelagos across Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans.

We consider race and ethnicity as co-constitutive logics and forms of difference across different geohistories, including the ways in which these logics form, transform, transfer, congeal -- or not. We ask after brown, black, yellow, red, and white (and bright) as codes for difference, as metaphors of color made to matter through the matter of different bodies. We prompt reflection on how race, religion, ethnicity, and caste overlap and congeal into one another, troubling normative vocabularies of difference and relation.

We invite critical perspectives from scholars working in and across multiple languages, and provocations of brown as rubric, methodology, disorientation device (Ahmed 2006). Submissions might explore the politics that brown/ness(es) are heavy with, and their attendant contradictions, confusions, and frictions, including those between. Writers may think through these terms as names for cartographies of intimacy, violence, capital, memory, labor, culture are shaped by multiple empires — Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Dutch, American, Russian, Safavid, Mughal, Ottoman, Qing, Byzantine.

Essays (between 6,000-10,000 words) and abstracts (125 words) should be submitted electronically through this submission form by August 15, 2022 and prepared according to the author-date + bibliography format of the Chicago Manual of Style. See section 2.38 of the University of Minnesota Press style guide or chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style Online for additional formatting information.

Authors' names should not appear on manuscripts; instead, please include a separate document with the author's name, address, institutional affiliations, and the title of the article with your electronic submission. Authors should not refer to themselves in the first person in the submitted text or notes if such references would identify them; any necessary references to the author's previous work, for example, should be in the third person.

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CFP: STUDIES OF THE CONTEMPORARY ASIA PACIFIC SERIES. HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS

Studies of the Contemporary Asia Pacific Series

 

Hong Kong University Press

Hong Kong University Press is reaching out to rising and established scholars for new, outstanding scholarship (monographs and edited volumes) for our forthcoming new series, Studies of the Contemporary Asia Pacific series, co-edited by Dr. Tat Yan Kong (School of Oriental and African Studies) and Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo (King's College London). If you would like to discuss a proposal with us, or have any questions about our publication processes, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact our Acquisitions Editors Kenneth Yung at kenyung@hku.hk or Yasmine Hung at yhungyy@hku.hk

Submitting a Book Proposal

To submit a proposal, please include:

• A statement of the argument or purpose of the manuscript, explaining how it will add to the existing literature on the topic

• A table of contents, including a brief synopsis of each chapter

• A sample chapter, if available

• A word count of the project (including bibliography, notes, etc.) and details of other elements of the manuscript, such as illustrations, maps, or tables

• A description of the projected audience, or market, for the book

• An analysis of competing books (if any exist) and a brief explanation of the uniqueness of the proposed book

• A curriculum vitae and/or other material describing the author’s background and expertise in the area

About the Series

This series is the flagship publication of the London Asia Pacific Centre for Social Science, based at SOAS, University of London and King's College London. ‘Peace and prosperity’ have underpinned the Asia Pacific region's rise in the international system since the end of the Cold War. This series seeks to understand the contemporary challenges to ‘peace and prosperity’. In particular, it seeks to understand the origins and dynamics of three issues, namely, the divergence between economic and social development as rapid growth has been accompanied by the worsening of relative disparities, the global constraints facing the region's export-led growth model, especially relations with the West, and the persistence of inter-state conflicts despite the necessity of closer regional integration.

Based on these comparative and international guiding themes, this series seeks to publish original monographs and, when appropriate, edited volumes on the Asia-Pacific irrespective of the methodological approach. The aim of the series is to publish scholarly works that are both conceptually sophisticated and empirically well-informed. While addressing scholarly issues, it is hoped that the series will also appeal to wider audiences with an informed interest in the region.

About the Editors

Dr Tat Yan Kong is Reader (Associate Professor) in Comparative Politics and Development Studies at the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS. Dr Kong is the Co-Director of the LAPC. Web.

Dr Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations in the Department of European & International Studies, KCL, and Korea Chair at the Institute of European Studies, Free University of Brussels (VUB). Dr Pacheco Pardo is the Co-Director of the LAPC. Web.

Forthcoming Titles

Lowell Dittmer ed., New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century (expected April 2022)

In this collected volume, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of power. China is now extending sovereignty into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, constructing a new set of global financial institutions and replacing “universal values” with technologically enhanced nationalism. The country’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is also tainted by the vast ambition to realize the “China Dream” within the foreseeable future. In response to China’s challenge, the United States has abandoned its “constructive engagement” policy towards the rising power and engaged in a trade war. Sino-American relations have been at a historical trough since the normalization of their relationship in the late 1970s. This book sheds new light on the current political disorder in the East Asian international arena. The new Asian disorder is analyzed from three perspectives: the first focuses on identity, the second on political economy, and the third on the triangular dynamic. This collection of essays concludes that, unless and until consensus can be reached on a coherent new framework for cooperation and rule enforcement among different stakeholders in East Asia, the current disorder may be expected to persist.

About the Press

Since its establishment in 1956, the Press has grown from a publisher of only a few titles, primarily studies done by the University’s own faculty, to one that releases up to 50 new titles a year from leading scholars around the world. All Press publications undergo a rigorous peer review process before they are accepted for publication. Building on our unique position in Asia, works published by the Press examine, critique, and celebrate Asia’s place in the world. These represent the full spectrum of academic disciplines, cover both historical and future issues, span all theoretical points of view, and range from in-depth local analyses through regional comparisons to global syntheses.

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