Journals
Reviving its more than seventy-year-old history, Africa resumes publication with a view to providing Africanists with an interdisciplinary venue for in-depth discussion in all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Africa is now a double-blind peer-reviewed half-yearly journal, hosting contributions in Italian, English and French. The Editorial Board encourages submissions on a wide range of topics and from different theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. Published articles will invariably be the result of rigorous analysis and empirically grounded research. The journal also calls for the sustained contribution of Africa-based scholars, whose voices are frequently silenced due to a lack of adequate publishing opportunities. One of the driving ambitions of Africa is to challenge this imbalance. Africa is published by the Centro Studi per i Popoli Extraeuropei “Cesare Bonacossa” through Viella Editrice, Rome. The journal is also supported by ISMEO – Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente.
Asia Maior is an Italian think-tank concerned with Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia, which applies a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of Asian contemporary affairs by making use of social, political and historical perspectives. Asia Maior was born in 1989 from an idea of Professor Giorgio Borsa, the then doyen of the Italian scholars working on Modern Asia. Since 1990 Asia Maior has been publishing the yearly journal of the same name. Asia Maior, the think tank, has worked as an informal association up to 2006, when it became a formal association.