Inner Asia
Inner Asia is a new international journal seeking to strengthen understanding of the history, politics, economies, and cultures of Inner Asia. It is interdisciplinary and inclusive, the better to reflect diverse indigenous and critical understandings.
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Inner Asia is the region of the great steppes, centred on Mongolia. We include in our scope the Altai, Buryatiya, Tyva, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Höhnuur (Qinghai), Gansu, Sichuan, Tibet, the Central Asian states, Kalmykia, Inner Mongolia, and Manchuria, as well as their diasporic communities scattered all over the world. We take this region to be not just an inner hinterland to Russia and China, but as itself constituting a sphere or centre which has its particular historical dynamics.United by ways of life, such as mobile pastoralism and trade, and by many common aspects of culture, Inner Asia has its own languages, scripts, as well as religious and political traditions. The region is important not only because it is a meeting place of different civilizations and a bridge between Asia and Europe, but also because it has given rise to and shaped great states and civilizations. Currently it is experiencing enormous change, as the socialism of the mid-twentieth century is being transformed by new economic and political processes. Strategically, Inner Asia is now a sensitive and volatile area. New states are in the making. Urgent and sustained studies of the region and its peoples are needed to facilitate sound cultural understandings and development.
Inner Asia is published by The White Horse Press for the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit, founded in 1986 at the University of Cambridge. The Unit is currently one of the very few research-oriented forums in the world in which scholars can address contemporary and historical problems of the region. Inner Asia is distinct from the few existing journals dealing with regional studies of Central/Inner Asia and Mongolia, in focusing on fundamental issues, contemporary social transformations, and theoretically-informed attempts to understand them.
Inner Asia is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal, with emphasis on the social sciences, humanities, and cultural studies. It is committed to supporting publication of original research at the highest academic standards. Articles of several kinds are welcomed: those introducing new materials, those engaging with issues of current debate, those with a critical or theoretical focus, shorter pieces of an ethnographic kind, and book reviews. We welcome submissions from scholars of all countries and especially those whose own background lies in Inner Asia. Subjects of particular interest to the journal are: cultural change, the rise of political and economic nationalism, indigenous critiques of colonial paradigms, the introduction of markets and changing concepts of property, the re-emergence of religions, the negotiation of ethnicity and identity, urbanization and social geography, history of thoughts and current intellectual debates, changes in languages and epistemology, environmental adaptations and conservation, and history and historiography in the socialist and post-socialist periods.
The language of the journal is English. Articles may be submitted in Chinese, French, Mongolian, or Russian, and they will be translated and published in English. If you would like to submit an article, contact one of the editors for further instructions. *
INNER ASIA
Knapwell, Cambridge, G.B.:
The White Horse Press,
ISSN 1464-8172
Caroline Humphrey, Kings College, University of Cambridge, GB
Uradyn E. Bulag, City University of New York, USA
David Sneath, St Cross College, University of Oxford, GB
Christopher Kaplonski (Book Review Editor), Rutgers University, USA
A. Johnson, White Horse Press.
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