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The potential and risks of environmental storytelling in Southeast Asia

  • A/Prof. Edwin Jurriëns,

Deeper understanding of planetary crises requires the insights from the arts and Humanities and Social Sciences.

The myth and politics of nature in Laksmi Pamuntjak’s novel Amba

  • Dr Tom Hercules Davies,

Amba presents political events as unfolding within the more enduring cycles of nature, and of myth.

Indigenous voices against the Kaliwa dam in the Philippines: Short video documentaries

  • A/Prof Laurence Marvin Castillo,

These films raise awareness of the environmental destruction caused by the dam and the impact on Indigenous communities.

The sexual and gender-based violence challenge in Asia

  • Dr Hyein Ellen Cho & Dr Amira Aftab,

Asia faces a huge challenge in confronting sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) – from child marriage to institutional neglect and online abuse. Hyein Ellen Cho and Amira Aftab analyse the breadth of the problem and offer some hopeful solutions.

‘A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader: Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place & Identities’, eds. Agnes S.K. Yeow & Wai Liang Tham

  • Dr Simon Soon,

This book reminds us that the stories we tell about nature are inextricable from how we imagine the future of culture.

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