Highlander Press hosts a growing collection of peer-reviewed, open-access journals dedicated to interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of society, culture, ecology, and health. Our journals—The Highlander Journal, PluriMed: Journal of Medical Pluralism, and Ekologos: Journal of Environmental Sciences and Humanities—offer critical, field-based, and theoretically grounded research with a focus on Indigenous knowledge systems, sustainability, and the challenges of the Anthropocene. Each journal fosters dialogue across disciplines and geographies, with a commitment to intellectual rigor, accessibility, and ethical engagement.

Journals

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    Highlander

    The Highlander Journal is an academic, open-access, and peer reviewed online journal, broadly concerned with the study of Asia's highland communities historically situated at the margins of the state, and is inspired by debates on the spatio-cultural aspects of 'Zomia'. This concept was used originally to imagine an alternate cartography of upland Asia, which in-turn spurred debates on state, culture, and social formation in the so-called peripheries. The Journal is a unique and accessible forum for multidisciplinary and comparative discussions, taking these concepts within and beyond Asia and thereby engaging with global conversations on interconnection and fragmentation.

  • PluriMed

    PluriMed: Critical Studies in Medicine, Healing & Health is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal and living archive dedicated to critical, comparative, and ethnographically grounded studies of medicine, healing, and health across diverse cultural, historical, ecological, and political worlds. Published by Highlander Press, PluriMed provides a global platform for examining how healing traditions, biomedicine, public health systems, ritual practices, pharmaceuticals, and emerging therapeutic worlds coexist, contend, and transform one another. With a particular commitment to the Global South, Highland Asia, Indigenous knowledge systems, and postcolonial health ecologies, PluriMed foregrounds forms of medical knowledge and therapeutic practice often overlooked in mainstream health discourse, especially in contexts shaped by marginality, inequality, environmental change, and political uncertainty.

  • Ekologos

    Ekologos is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the intersection of environmental sciences and humanities. It provides a platform for interdisciplinary research that integrates scientific and humanistic perspectives on environmental change, sustainability, and ecological resilience.