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.