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LATEST EDITION OUT NOW! How artists, writers, film-makers & others #SoutheastAsia are helping us understand environmental challenges. #environmentalhumanities #allegory #Anthropocene #climateaction #hyperobject #biosemiotics #island #littoralenvironments go.unimelb.edu.au/xbn2

Contemporary Indigenous Knowledges in Asia - mailchi.mp/unimelb.edu.au…

Contemporary Indigenous Knowledges in Asia - mailchi.mp/unimelb.edu.au…

Varieties of Indigenous Knowledges in Asia - mailchi.mp/unimelb.edu.au…

Varieties of Indigenous Knowledges in Asia - mailchi.mp/unimelb.edu.au…

'Universal' assumptions about suitable climates for museum collections usually represent particular ideas about cultural preservation and overlook others, writes Dr Nicole Tse, @Cultcons. #environmentalhumanities #SoutheastAsia #climatechange go.unimelb.edu.au/i862

What explains the disgusting patriarchal, Islamophopbic act of Nitish Kumar as he forcibly "unveils" the hijab of a young Muslim woman? It is "Hindu Orientalism" loyal to & reworked from Western Orientalism. In an essay for @melbasiareview , I formulated it as follows: "Bodies of Muslim women are crucial terrain of securitisation.  Due to space limitation, only one example will suffice. In 2022, Muslim girls in Karnataka were debarred from pursuing education because of their choice to wear hijab. Very few feminists lodged any significant protest against such blatant gender discrimination, showing thereby how postcolonial feminism continues to be loyal to colonial vocabulary. In place of colonial logic of what Spivak said ‘white men saving brown women from brown men,’ in contemporary India, it is ‘Hindu men and women together engaged in the mission of saving Muslim women from Muslim men.’ The call ‘to save’ Muslim women has only intensified since Modi acquired power in 2014. " PS: Mr Kumar is chief minister of Bihar, my province | state. If interested, you may read the essay here: melbourneasiareview.edu.au/securitisation… academia.edu/106357272/Ahma… On Hindu Orientalism, here is the link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #hijab #NitishKumar #Islamophobia #ReligiousFreedom #Democracy #women #orientalism

'Universal' assumptions about suitable climates for museum collections usually represent particular ideas about cultural preservation and overlook others, writes Dr Nicole Tse, @Cultcons. #environmentalhumanities #SoutheastAsia #climatechange go.unimelb.edu.au/i862

Short documentaries made by civil society actors are raising awareness of the environmental destruction caused by the #Kaliwadam #Philippines & the impact on #Indigenous communities: Laurence Marvin Castillo @UPLBOfficial go.unimelb.edu.au/dja2 @philtfip @ipmsdl_ @aippnet

Indonesian design practices such as repair invite us to rethink what design is, what it can do, and for whom it matters: @juhriSL @AUDubai &@ @digijalanjalan, @UTSResearch go.unimelb.edu.au/zzn2 #design #Indonesia

Creative activists continue to inspire environmental resistance in Myanmar: @jcryan22, @NotreDame. go.unimelb.edu.au/bkn2 @goldmanprize @KOZARTIST @hkun_lat #Myanmar #environmentalhumanities

A ‘regional eye’ understands the natural world not as eternal, fixed and stable, but as constantly transforming with the monsoon rains: Roger Nelson, @ntu_humanities go.unimelb.edu.au/87n2 @natgallerysg #environmentalhumanities #SoutheastAsia #climatechange

LATEST EDITION OUT NOW! Environmental Creativity in #SoutheastAsia: Nature beyond the Nation-State. #environmentalhumanities #visualart #literature #Indigenousstorytelling #Anthropocene #climatechange #hyperobject #biosemiotics #littoralenvironments go.unimelb.edu.au/xbn2

🎙️PODCAST: What does the first year of the presidency of #Prabowo reveal about #Indonesia’s political direction? go.unimelb.edu.au/8xa2 With Prof Tim Lindsey @cilis_mls, @MelbLawSchool & @iwilson69 @MurdochUni. Hosted by Sami Shah. Produced by @profactual. #EartoAsia

SPECIAL SERIES with @Asialink_au: The sexual and gender-based violence challenge in Asia. go.unimelb.edu.au/gwn2 Led by Dr @hyein_ellen_cho @MonashUni & Dr Amira Aftab @Macquarie_Uni

BOOK REVIEW: ‘A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader: Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place and Identities’, edited by Agnes S.K. Yeow & Wai Liang Tham. @Palgrave go.unimelb.edu.au/exa2 Review by Dr Simon Soon, @SCC_Unimelb, #art #Malaysia #environment

An eco-critical re-examination of colonial-era maritime pictures within public institutions can help prompt the attitude shifts necessary for action: writes Gillian Daniel, @ANUartdesign. go.unimelb.edu.au/vaa2 #Art #SoutheastAsia #climatechange

INTERVIEW: You are what you eat—Representing the politics and privilege of palm oil production and consumption, with Indonesian artist Elia Nurvista. go.unimelb.edu.au/2qn2 #EliaNurvista #palmoil #consumption #production

Creative activists continue to inspire environmental resistance in Myanmar: @jcryan22, @NotreDame. go.unimelb.edu.au/bkn2 @goldmanprize @KOZARTIST @hkun_lat #Myanmar #environmentalhumanities

Wonderful to see these excellent researchers get acknowledgment for their work! -Phyllis Huang: Best Article -Ary Hermawan @IndoAtMelb & Pan Hsu Pyae @FutureWomen: Best Article by a Graduate Student (joint winners) Andrew Rosser #AsiaInstitute Director, @UniMelb

The novel 'Amba' presents political events as unfolding within the more enduring cycles of nature and of myth: Tom Davies, @UniMelb. melbourneasiareview.edu.au/the-myth-and-p… #LaksmiPamuntjak #Mahābhārata #historicalnovel #classicalreception #Indonesia