links

      research institutes

     forums

  • Graduate Junction - a steadily growing global research community for graduates and early career researchers.
  • Global Policy Forum - monitoring policy-making at the United Nations and fostering global citizen participation.
  • Thinkcentreasia.org - independent political think-tank, which critically examines issues related to political development, democracy, rule of law, human rights and civil society.
  • Forum for Ethnicity, Migration & Marginalisation - assembles leading international researchers studying ethnicity, racism, multiculturalism, and social exclusion.
  • The Postcolonial Web - project funded by the University Scholars Programme, National University of Singapore, covering postcolonial discourse theory.
  • Democratiya - bi-monthly online review of books that aims at contributing to a renewal of the politics of democratic radicalism by providing a forum for serious analysis and debate.

      international relations/global politics

      ethics

  • MANAS - independent journal of world society

      critical theory

      sociology

      gender studies

  • Thirdspace - venue for feminist scholarship covering theory and methodology
  • Intersections - "Gender, history and culture in the Asian context." Refereed online journal from Murdoch University, Australia.

      the environment

  • Irish EcoPolitics Online - peer reviewed bi-annual academic journal exploring themes of environmentalism, sustainability, social movements, ecotopias and environmental politics and policy.
  • Resurgence - magazine on ecology, art and culture.

      law and critical legal studies

      culture/anthropology

  • Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory cutting-edge scholarship dealing with religious and cultural theory
  • Journal of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies - scholarly publication of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies network
  • The Little Magazine(TLM) - South Asia's only professionally produced print magazine of culture and politics
  • Fourth World Journal of the Center for World Indigenous Studies - dedicated to the advancement of ideas and knowledge from the perspective of indigenous peoples - the world's more than six thousand nations.
  • Borderlands E-Journal - virtual space for new forms of thought and writing in the humanities.
  • Cerebration - trans-cultural space for critical thought and creative work. Submissions cover a variety of topics ranging from politics, culture and literature to science, art, music, films, etc.
  • Quest - postgraduate journal of humanities and social sciences.

      media and communications

  • Image [&] Narrative - peer-reviewed journal on visual narratology in the broadest sense of the term. Beside tackling theoretical issues, it is a platform for reviews of real life examples.
  • M/C Journal - peer-reviewed journal, open to submissions and responses from the Internet. A place of public intellectualism, analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. A crossover between the popular and the academic.

      postgraduate teaching & research resources

  • C-SAP - the Higher Education Academy Subject Network for Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. C-SAP promotes a scholarly and disciplinary-specific approach to the innovation and reform of learning and teaching in the social sciences.
  • The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, - aids research in all branches of anthropology and closely related disciplines concerned with human origins, development and variation.
  • AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality - pioneering and facilitating work that analyses, investigates and deepens understanding of the relationship between Law, Gender and Sexuality.
  • Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology - comparative analysis of contemporary social transformation and anthropological theory building.
  • The International Studies Association - founded in 1959, promotes research and education about international affairs.
  • The Internet Archive - digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artefacts in digital form. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians and scholars.
  • The Feminist Institute - current women’s policy issues that reflect on traditional issues in a new way and approach novel issues from an unconventional angle.
  • European Centre for Minority Issues - practice-oriented research website, providing information and documentation, and offering advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe.
  • The Research Unit for Global Justice - based at Goldsmiths College, U.K., studies the legal and ethical implications of contemporary global social change.
  • Climate Change Research Group, associated with the Royal Geographical Society, based at Leeds University, U.K.
  • Migration Research Group - interdisciplinary research on economic, legal and ethnic aspects of human migration




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