Global Asias MAP | Global Asias Initiative

GLOBAL ASIAS
METHOD|ARCHITECTURE|PRAXIS

Book Series published by the University of Hawai’i Press
Co-editors: Tina Chen & Charlotte Eubanks

SERIES DESCRIPTION
The Global Asias MAP book series publishes volumes that explore the epistemic challenges posed by Global Asias as a conceptual approach to the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas. Drawing on work from three distinct interdisciplines—Asian studies, Asian American studies, and Asian diaspora studies—the series stages intellectual exchanges between and across disciplines and fields to reimagine scholarly knowledge production about the fundamentally transnational and global nature of Asia-focused worlds and epistemologies.

Building on the award-winning work of the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Global Asias MAP publishes innovative work that challenges the institutional practices that disarticulate scholarly analysis of Asia from study of Asia’s multiple diasporas. The series promotes Global Asias as a conceptual approach that draws on the methods, vocabularies, and priorities of critical race and ethnic studies to unsettle the assumptions of Asian studies while, in parallel fashion, leveraging Asian studies’ attentiveness to questions of place, regional awareness, and linguistic expertise to discomfit Asian American Studies’ tendency to reinforce the US-centrism of concepts governing the Asian diaspora. By bringing area studies and ethnic studies into non-aligned relation, the books in this series advance Global Asias as an emergent and developing method, architecture, and praxis.

Global Asias MAP is sponsored by the Penn State Global Asias Initiative (GAI), a research enterprise supporting a diverse set of interrelated projects—including a biennial conference series, an annual Summer Institute, a series of “On the Road” projects such as the Luce-funded Global Asias Cyber Chats, and Verge—that cultivate sites of collegial engagement, productive disagreement, and communal knowledge-making. These manifold projects are structures created to challenge existing institutional practices that separate scholars working on “Asian” topics from those working on “diasporic” topics and to create new conditions of possibility for exploring how Global Asias can destabilize or transform existing methodologies in Asian studies, Asian American studies, and Asian diaspora studies.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
We welcome the submission of book proposals for this series. Proposals can be submitted via this form and should include the following:
• A cover letter describing the project and noting its anticipated length and completion date
• A prospectus with detailed chapter outlines
• A CV or résumé
• One or two sample chapters