Editorial Office:
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Duke University Press
905 W. Main St., Suite 18B
Durham, NC 27707
cssaame@dukeupress.edu

Senior Editors:
Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University
Anupama Rao, Barnard College

Editorial Collective:
Lila Abu-Lughod
Partha Chatterjee
Mamadou Diouf
Kai Kresse
Mahmood Mamdani
Christine Philliou
Sheldon Pollock

Managing Editor:
Liz Beasley

Founding Editors:
Vasant Kaiwar
Sucheta Mazumdar

Editorial Assistants:
Arthur Dudney
Casey Primel

Contributing Editors:
Kamran Ali
Arjun Appadurai
Sara Berry
Allison Busch
Indrani Chatterjee
Jean Comaroff
Fred Cooper
Hamid Dabashi
Veena Das
Lara Deeb
James De Lorenzi
Faisal Devji
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Beshara Doumani
Andreas Eshete
Samera Esmeir
Khaled Fahmy
Leela Gandhi
Michael Gilsenan
Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis
Mona Harb
Gillian Hart
Engseng Ho
Christophe Jaffrelot
Kajri Jain
Shamil Jeppie
Sudipta Kaviraj
Rashid Khalidi
Vukile Khumalo
Tijana Krstic
Saba Mahmood
Ussama Makdisi
Karuna Mantena
Chakanetsa Mavhunga
Lisa Mitchell
Yael Navaro-Yashin
Vasuki Nesiah
Steven Pierce
Sanjay Reddy
Janet Roitman
Mrinalini Sinha
Susan Slyomovics
Meltem Toksoz
Peter van der Veer
William van Schendel
Lisa Wedeen

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes original scholarship on South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The journal seeks to bring the study of "area" into conversation with a rethinking of "theory" and "the disciplines." Its aim is twofold: to ask how area and region have grounded the production of geohistorical universals and, conversely, to attend to the specificity of non-Western social, political, and intellectual formations as these challenge normative assumptions of social life, cultural practice, and historical transformation. The journal has an explicit commitment to working across temporal divides to challenge the modernity of concepts (and the social forms to which they are addressed) in addition to exploring how concepts and practices might be rethought and redeployed through new narratives of connection and comparison.

CSSAAME aims to produce content that is not only thoughtful but also well-written and accessible to a multidisciplinary audience. Therefore, clear, well-articulated, jargon-free prose will be highly valued when submissions are evaluated. Response time is generally three to six months. Submit manuscripts online at www.editorialmanager.com/cssaame. Send correspondence to cssaame@dukeupress.edu.

Submission Types and Length

Because CSSAAME accepts submissions in various forms, there is no set length for them. As a general guideline, full-length articles are approximately 8,000 to 10,000 words. Other types of submissions for which word count is not an adequate measure (for instance, photo-essays) should be between ten and twenty-five pages.

We also encourage the submission of work that incorporates other media, such as images, video, or sound. If you would like to submit such work for consideration, please contact the editorial office directly with an abstract or proposal.

Citations

Submissions are required to have both endnote citations and a bibliography. Provide a shortened citation in the endnotes rather than the full citation, which is included only in the bibliography. For reference, see section 14.14 of The Chicago Manual of Style, sixteenth edition. Authors are encouraged to limit the use of endnotes to acknowledgment of sources and parenthetical or tangential ideas. Self-citation is unnecessary.

Transliteration

In general, a word should be transliterated only if there is no acceptable English equivalent. If no such equivalent is available, authors should follow the ALA-LC romanization tables for the respective language (www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html) when possible.

Forms for authors:

• Publication agreement
• Permissions and Illustration Guide

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Closing Dates

Spring 2014 (34:1) - Closes 02/28/14

Summer 2014 (34:2) - Closes 06/09/14

Fall 2014 (34:3) - Closes 10/09/14

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