Critical Asian Studies (launched in 1968 as the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials that challenge the accepted formulas for understanding the Asia and Pacific regions, the world, and ourselves.

Current Issue: Vol. 44, No. 1 (March 2012)

Transitional Justice as an Elite Discourse: Human Rights Practice
Where the Global Meets the Local in Post-conflict Nepal
– Simon Robins

Sacred Cows and Crashing Boars: Ethno-religious Minorities and the Politics of Online Representation in Malaysia – Susan Leong

THEMATIC ISSUE: Migration, Agrarian Transition,
and Rural Change in Southeast Asia – Part 2
Philip F. Kelly, guest editor

Land, Livelihoods, and Remittances: A Political Ecology of Youth
Out-migration across the Lao-Thai Mekong Border
– Keith Barney

Thai Mobilities and Cultural Citizenship – Mary Beth Mills

Migration to the Countryside: Class Encounters in Peri-urban
Chiang Mai, Thailand
– Tubtim Tubtim

Displacement, Resettlement, and Multi-local Livelihoods: Positioning Migrant Legitimacy in Lampung, Indonesia – Rebecca Elmhirst

BOOK REVIEWS

The Korean War: A History, by Bruce Cumings. Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion, 1950–1953, by Steven Casey
– Heonik Kwon, reviewer

Chen Village: Revolution and Globalization,
by Anita Chan, Richard Madsen, and Jonathan Unger

– Alvin Y. So, reviewer

Scorched Earth, Black Snow: Britain and Australia
in the Korean War, 1950
, by Andrew Salmon

– Michael Munk, reviewer


The second highest-ranked area studies journal covering the whole of Asia,
according to the 2010 Impact Factor ranking published by Thomson Reuters.
(© 2011 Thomson Reuters, 2010 Journal Citation Reports™)
SSCI Impact Factor: 0.733.

© Simon Robins