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Critical Pakistan Studies to be published by Cambridge University Press from 2023
 

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is pleased to announce that starting in January 2023, we will publish a new interdisciplinary journal, Critical Pakistan Studies. The journal is a joint launch between CUP and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); the University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK; and Le Centre d ‘Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), France; and thus, expects to become a major force in a significant and growing field of research.  Critical Pakistan Studies will also benefit from the strength of the existing CUP Asian Studies journals list and books program, with its strong focus on South Asia and the diaspora.

 

Critical Pakistan Studies  will publish primary source interpretive social science and humanities research that, in addition to Pakistan and Pakistanis, tackle broader interdisciplinary issues (e.g., colonialism, nationalism, integration, marginalization, devotion, institutionalization, vernacularism, cosmopolitanism, development, environment, popular culture, diaspora, gender, representation, and others).  The journal’s interdisciplinary approach will push beyond the nation-state, security, Islam, extremism, and other topics that narrowly define the study of Pakistan. It will analyze, discuss, and seek to understand the varied and multilayered contexts that constitute Pakistan and its people (both past and present and in South Asia and the wider world).
 
Its global editorial board represents and supports the publication of scholarship on Pakistan and the diaspora originating within Pakistan itself, as well as throughout Europe, North America, and elsewhere in Asia.
 
The journal’s editorial collective of Kamran Asdar Ali, Michel Boivin, Matthew A. Cook, and
Amina Yaqin assert that, “Until recently, Pakistan Studies was a small interdisciplinary research area.  However, this is no longer the case and t here is no international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan.  Critical Pakistan Studies will fill this gap and be the flagship publication in its field of study.”
 
Ann Avouris, Cambridge University Press' Head of Journals, North America, said, “The Press looks forward to working with the partnered institutions and the editorial team in this exciting new launch. We are particularly keen to bring new authors and readers to our program from Pakistan itself.”
 
Learn more about this field-leading Gold Open Access journal at cambridge.org/CPS.
 
Press Contacts: Marcus Hinds, Journals Marketing, marcus.hinds@cambridge.org, and Ann Avouris, Journals' Editorial,  ann.avouris@cambridge.org.

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About the American Institute of Pakistan Studies
 

The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), established in 1973, is a bi-national research and educational organization with a mission to promote academic study of Pakistan in the US and to encourage scholarly exchange between the US and Pakistan. To fulfill this mission, AIPS provides research fellowships to American researchers, administers lectureships, and sponsors academic conferences.

 

For more information about the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, go to https://www.pakistanstudies-aips.org/

About the Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud—Center for South Asian Studies

The CEIAS (Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud—Center for South Asian Studies) is the largest French research institute in social sciences dealing with the Indian subcontinent. The Center is a joint research unit, combining scholars from the EHESS (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales—School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique—French National Center for Scientific Research). 
 
For more information about the Center for South Asian Studies, go to http://ceias.ehess.fr/

About the Exeter South Asia Centre, University of Exeter

The South Asia Centre brings together a dynamic group of students, teachers and researchers, to foster and sustain interdisciplinary academic collaborations across the University of Exeter. Its core membership reflects a number of departments including Archaeology, Drama, Economics, Engineering, English and Film Studies, Geography, History, and the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. A unique feature of the Centre is its emphasis on direct engagement with colleagues and organizations in South Asia, whether through field-work, archival research, or performance practice. The researchers and postgraduate students in the Centre conduct research which relates wholly or in part to the wider Indian subcontinent and global South Asian communities with their associated diasporas.

For more information about the Exeter South Asia Center, go to  https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/southasiacentre/