Book Series - Asian Studies Association of Australia

The ASAA publishes four book series in collaboration with international publishing houses:

Southeast Asia Publications Series

Published with the National University of Singapore (NUS). Edited by Edward Aspinall.

Est. in 1979 with Allen & Unwin, moved to NUS in 2004.

East Asia Series

Published with Routledge. Edited by Morris Low.

Est. in 1985 with Allen & Unwin, moved to Routledge in 1991.

Women in Asia Series

Published with Routledge. Edited by Louise Edwards.

Est. in 1992 with Allen & Unwin, moved to Curzon in 2002, and to Routledge in 2003.

South Asia Series

Published with Routledge. Edited by Duncan McDuie-Ra.

Est. in 1986 with the Oriental University Press, moved to Sterling in 1987, and to Routledge in 2010.

Latest Books

Women in Asia Series

Young Muslim Women in India Bollywood, Identity and Changing Youth Culture

Kabita Chakraborty
This book, based on extensive, original research, details the changing lives of youth living in slum communities in Kolkata. Using young people’s own photos, art and narratives, the book explores how Muslim girls and young women are contributing to, and impacted by, changing youth culture in India.

Women in Asia Series

Women and Sharia Law in Northern Indonesia: Local Women's NGOs and the Reform of Islamic Law in Aceh

Dina Afrianty
This book examines the life of women in the Indonesian province of Aceh, where Islamic law was introduced in 1999. It outlines how women have had to face the formalisation of conservative understandings of sharia law in regulations and new state institutions over the last decade or so and how they have responded to this.

Southeast Asia Series

Resilience and the Localisation of Trauma in Aceh, Indonesia

Catherine Smith
In this book, Catherine Smith examines the global reach of the contested yet compelling concept of trauma, which has expanded well beyond the bounds of therapeutic practice to become a powerful cultural idiom shaping the ways social actors understand the effects of violence and imagine possible responses to suffering.