{"id":19,"date":"2026-03-23T23:51:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:12:08","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alternative<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Perspectives<\/strong> is an academic initiative of young researchers from the \u2018North-East\u2019 India that brings out original research works on issues concerning the borderlands of South Asia and (Western) South-East Asian region. It encourages critical research, re-reading and writing practices on regimented ideas, institutions, and prejudices. It offers a space where writing as a form of communication and documentation of subjectivity is being treasured as a process of giving voice to the hitherto prejudiced, and the unheard. Locating itself beyond the traditional confinement of ideas to specified disciplines, the Journal is thematically open to inter-disciplinary inferences by way of reciprocating to the need for addressing a myriad of concerns that afflict the region called the \u2018North-East\u2019 India \u2013 its identity, economy, and geo-politics. Alternative Perspectives acknowledges the trigonal challenge of publishing written narratives; of understanding critiques; and of circulating ideas for exploring new vantages of knowing. The journal maintains a strict Peer Review process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alternative Perspectives is the bi-annual journal of Centre for Alternative Discourse, Manipur (CADM) since 2005. CADM is a research division of Research Foundation, Imphal. Alternative Perspectives bears ISSN 2248-969X. AP is also registered with the Registrar of Newspaper for India under MANENG00084\/14\/1\/2006-TC. AP is published by Dr Arambam Noni on behalf of CADM. Printed at Regal Print Service, Bangalore &#8211; 560026.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The views expressed in the articles are those of the individual authors. The articles do not necessarily reflect the views of the journal and editors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative\u00a0Perspectives is an academic initiative of young researchers from the \u2018North-East\u2019 India that brings out original research works on issues concerning the borderlands of South Asia and (Western) South-East Asian region. It encourages critical research, re-reading and writing practices on regimented ideas, institutions, and prejudices. It offers a space where writing as a form of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"ajournal-card":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Alternative\u00a0Perspectives is an academic initiative of young researchers from the \u2018North-East\u2019 India that brings out original research works on issues concerning the borderlands of South Asia and (Western) South-East Asian region. It encourages critical research, re-reading and writing practices on regimented ideas, institutions, and prejudices. It offers a space where writing as a form of\u2026","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alternativejournal.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}