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 Rebecca Gidley
Four Book Series that publish innovative monographs on Asia
Occasional reports on Asian Studies in Australia

Latest Books

Southeast Asia Series

Unmarked Graves: Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia

Vannessa Hearman
The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produced a particularly high death toll in East Java. It also transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of survivors, who faced decades of persecution, imprisonment and violence. In this book, Vannessa Hearman examines the human cost and community impact of the violence on people from different sides of the political divide.

East Asia Series

Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles

Alexander James Brown
This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street.

South Asia Series

Transitional Justice in Nepal: Interests, Victims and Agency

Yvette Selim
This book provides an in-depth analysis of transitional justice process in Nepal. Drawing on interviews with a diverse range of stakeholders, including victims, ex-combatants, community members, human rights advocates, journalists and representatives from diplomatic missions, international organisations and the donor community, it reveals the differing viewpoints, knowledge, attitudes and preferences about TJ and other post-conflict issues in Nepal.

Women in Asia Series

Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A History of Desire, Duty, and Debt

Trude Jacobsen
The book, which covers the modern states of Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, argues that cultural norms are not static, that sexual contracts are more complicated than simply ‘marriage’ or ‘prostitution’, and that as trafficking for sexual purposes increases, those engaging in humanitarian intervention should improve their knowledge of the historical underpinnings of cultural understandings of familial and contractual obligations.