JOURNAL OF ASIAN CENTURY AND SUSTAINABILITY (JAS)
-JAS is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and open-access journal committed to exploring the multifaceted dimensions of sustainability, development, and transformation across the diverse socio-political and cultural landscapes of Asia. It seeks to foster critical dialogue on how the region’s rising economic, political, and cultural influence intersects with urgent global challenges such as climate change, social justice, digital transformation, and indigenous knowledge systems.
JAS provides a platform for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and activists to engage with innovative and reflexive research that reimagines sustainability from local, regional, and transnational perspectives. The journal encourages submissions that bridge theory and practice, foreground marginalized voices, and challenge Eurocentric frameworks by centering the Global South, especially Asia, as an agent of knowledge production and sustainability innovation.
Aims and Scope
JAS welcomes original research articles, conceptual essays, policy critiques, ethnographic reflections, and interdisciplinary case studies in areas including (but not limited to):
- Indigenous and decolonial knowledge systems
- Urban and rural resilience in Asian contexts
- Green technologies and social innovation
- Post-development and alternative futures
- Climate justice and ecological sustainability
- Education, gender, and sustainability
- Political ecology and governance
- Inclusive development, grassroots politics and rural change
Key Features
- Open Access: All content is freely available without charge to the user or institution.
- Double-Blind Peer Review: Ensuring academic rigor and ethical scholarship.
- Global South Focus: Prioritizing perspectives, theories, and methodologies rooted in Asian and decolonial worldviews.
- Multilingual Submissions: Encourages scholarly work in English and Asian regional languages (with abstract translations in English).
Target Audience
- Academics and researchers in sustainability studies, social sciences, development studies, and environmental humanities.
- Practitioners working on grassroots or policy-level sustainability issues in Asia.
- Students, educators, and institutions engaged in critical and inclusive knowledge production.
Our focus is to provide scholarly insight into the challenges and possibilities of sustainable futures within the context of Asia’s rapid socio-economic rise, colonial legacies, global interdependence, and local resilience. The journal is especially interested in publishing work that:
- Engages with postcolonial and decolonial frameworks,
- Integrates indigenous and grassroots perspectives,
- Bridges academic theory with practical solutions,
- Promotes inclusive, equitable, and community-driven development.
Published biannually, the journal is committed to rigorous peer review, academic integrity, and global accessibility. Each issue includes research articles, policy reviews, field reports, reflexive essays, and book reviews.
ISSN: [To be registered]
Publisher: Lincoln University College, Malaysia
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Amiya Bhaumik
Executive Editor: Dr. Md. Jahid Siraz Chowdhury Chowdhury