AIMS and objectives

Borderlines seeks to rethink ideas of region and area studies by questioning theoretical and disciplinary approaches towards these ideas. Broadly conceived, it aims to query concepts, categories and histories, and locate their different articulations beyond the Atlantic world. It asks how such differential articulations shape multiple understandings of ideas and action within and across  borderlines that have constructed areas of Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. 

Practicing critique away from universals and cul-de-sac norms, it looks to see how the world can be understood through art, expression, different intellectual histories, conceptual categories and embodied experiences from the non-Atlantic world. In the process, it seeks to highlight the situatedness of challenges to normative assumptions of socio-political life, cultural practices, and historical transformations, while inquiring into the possibilities of conversation across such challenges.  The journal is committed to working across temporal divides and asking how concepts and practices might be rethought and redeployed through new narratives of connection and comparison.

All opinions represent those of the author. The editorial team of Borderlines and the advisory board aim to present a wide variety of opinions, methods and theoretical approaches,

Borderlines is an open-access site mentored by the editors of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME), it complements the journal, hosting interviews, short essays and podcasts. Borderlines submissions are not peer reviewed, but are subject to the purview of its own editorial board.

Borderlines is the first and final site for the essays, interviews, articles and media we host and produce. While we encourage our readers to cite our articles and engage in critical commentary, we do not allow reprints of our articles on any other platform unless they belong to our authors or CSSAAME.

See how to contribute to Borderlines here.

Read the latest issue on CSSAAME here.

*Site designed by Josue David Chavez, with inputs from Former Editor Basma Nabil Radwan.