Asian Highlands Perspectives

Asian Highlands Perspectives is a trans-disciplinary journal focusing on the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding regions, including the Southeast Asian Massif, Himalayan Massif, the Extended Eastern Himalayas, the Mongolian Plateau, and other contiguous areas. The editors believe that cross-regional commonalities in history, culture, language, and socio-political context invite investigations of an interdisciplinary nature not served by current academic forums. The journal will be of relevance to scholars with regional interests – Sinologists, Tibetologists, South and Southeast Asianists – and those interested in grounded theory, interdisciplinary studies, and collaborative scholarship.

Asian Highlands Perspectives publishes occasional monographs and essay collections both in hardcopy (ISSN 1835-7741) and online (ISSN 1925-6329). The online version is an open access source, freely available at: http://plateauculture.org/asian-highlands-perspectives. The print edition of the journal is available to libraries and individuals at-cost through print on demand publisher Lulu.com at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/AsianHighlandsPerspectives. The journal currently has a core editorial team of five members and a consultative editorial board of twenty-five experts from a variety of disciplines. All submissions to the journal are peer-reviewed by the editorial board and independent, anonymous assessors.

Asian Highlands Perspectives welcomes submissions from a wide range of scholars with an interest in the area. Given the dearth of current knowledge on this culturally complex area, we encourage submissions that contain descriptive accounts of local realities – especially by authors from communities in the Asian Highlands – as well as theory-oriented articles. We publish items of irregular format – long articles, short monographs, photo essays, fiction, auto-ethnography, etc. Authors receive a PDF version of their published work. Potential contributors are encouraged to consult previous issues.