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About AntePodium
History Founded in 1995 by Ralph Pettman, it is one of the first ever online academic journals.
Subject Matter AntePodium is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarly research on the politico-strategic, politico-economic and politico-cultural dimensions of world affairs. It encourages the development of critical, subversive, and innovative theoretical approaches to the study of world affairs. AntePodium is interdisciplinary and eclectic. It is not confined to traditional political science boundaries and welcomes articles from interested academics from a wide range of disciplines.
Publication AntePodium is published by the School of Political Science and International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Future content will also be hosted by EBSCO publishing.
Why "AntePodium"? "AntePodium is the first professional electronic journal on world affairs in the world. It plans to be all that its title suggests, namely, a platform of high academic standing 'before' the one from which academics are wont to speak. Being 'before' could be taken to mean providing the earliest possible accounts of current research. The electronic medium allows for an article to be posted as soon as it is accepted for publication. This is a service hard copy journals cannot provide. AntePodium could also mean that domain where the listener sits, and since that is where the notional reader will be found in relation to what is read, this nuance is an apt one as well. Furthermore, since the listener is as often as not a student listener, and since the editorial committee is composed by postgraduate students as well as professional academics, the title reflects something of those who run it, and hopefully, something of their intellectual liveliness too. In addition, the title AntePodium is redolent of the Antipodes, where this committee is currently (though not inevitably) located. The view from "down under" is a different one. It is shaped by that of the cultures of the global North, but it is of the South, and it is of Asia and the Pacific, and this provides the opportunity to take a perspective, both within and without the mainstream discipline, that is not taken by any established world affairs journal to date. Equally evident is the opportunity afforded by an antipodean vantage-point to publish commentaries on world affairs of an innovative kind. Though the editorial committee members live and work in a geographically peripheral country they belong to the world's electronic core. They are heirs to the Anglo-American tradition, in an environment where this tradition is contested. This makes for an acute awareness not only of politico-strategic and politico-economic issues but of politico-cultural ones as well. AntePodium, in other words, takes an active interest not only in global state-making and wealth making, but in mind-making too. " Ralph Pettman
The Logo ... is a chiastic collage of the two figureheads which feature on either side of Victoria University of Wellington's "coat of arms": the mäori taniwha and the european lion. Presumably these represent the University's identification with some notion of biculturalism. When placed in a chiasma, the interaction between different cultures, peoples, philosophies, disciplines and ideas suddenly appears more complex, contradictory, and problematic than a simple dualism - this is the type of thinking, and reflexivity, that AntePodium seeks to promote.
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