| ISSN No. : | 2632-0541 |
| Journal Title : | The Highlander: Journal of Highland Asia |
| Journal URL : | http://www.highlanderjournal.org/ |
| Publisher Name : | Arkotong Longkumer, University of Edinburgh; Michael Heneise, UiT The Arctic University of Norway. |
| Country : | United Kingdom |
| Language : | English |
| Discipline : | Multidiciplinary |
| Organization Name : | University of Edinburgh Library |
| Frequency : | Annual |
| Start Year : | 2019 |
| Journal Description : | he Highlander: Journal of Highland Asia is an academic, open-access, and peer-reviewed online journal, broadly concerned with the study of Highland Asian communities historically situated at the margins of the state. Articles published in The Highlander elucidate the similarities and differences, generalities and particularities of the histories, languages, cultures, politics, and religions of primarily ethnic minorities living in the upland terrains linking Nepal and the Tibetan plateau with Northeast India, the Pamirs, Western China, and the highland communities of Southeast Asia – a vast, congruous region sometimes referred to as ‘Zomia+’.
The multidisciplinary vision of area studies is perhaps the broadest heuristic promoted by The Highlander. However, the heavily debated lowland-upland dichotomy, often articulated as ‘state’ versus ‘stateless’, ‘centre’ versus ‘periphery’, or indeed ‘developed’ versus ‘backward’, remains a significant trope that, despite its contested historicity or empirical status, spurs prescient debate about cultural elaborations of power, about identity and belonging, about relationships to the natural environment, and indeed about the sources - secular and religious - from which societies draw inspiration, and attribute their power. It is also a dialectic that influences academic publishing, and indeed academia more generally. The Highlander, in the articles it publishes, and in its methodological ethos, continuously problematizes these dynamics, and seeks to create a space that privileges ideas and empiricism above all else, seeking always to foster openness, and to promote debate across material, language, epistemological, and perhaps most critically, imagined boundaries. |
| Licence Type : | CC BY-SA |