Overview - Asian Studies Association of Australia

The ASAA has an active publications program, overseen by the Publications Officer.

ASAA publications include:

A world leading quarterly journal, Asian Studies Review, edited by Michael D. Barr
A regular bulletin of short, expert commentaries, Asian Currents, edited by Allan Sharp
Four Book Series that publish innovative monographs on Asia
Occasional reports on Asian Studies in Australia

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.