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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Museum climate requirements raise issues of fairness and access in Southeast Asia
‘Universal’ assumptions about suitable climates for collections usually represent particular ideas about cultural preservation and overlook others.
INTERVIEW: You are what you eat—Representing the politics and privilege of palm oil production and consumption
“My main goal is for people to see the complexity of consumption and globalisation and not take their privilege for granted.”
Land and water: Seeing Southeast Asian landscapes with a ‘regional eye’
Towards understanding the natural world not as eternal, fixed and stable, but as constantly transforming with monsoon rains.
The persistence of gender-based violence among Myanmar exiles in Thailand
Exiles from the civil war in Myanmar live in legal and economic limbo. For women exiles there is the additional danger of gender-based violence.
Domestic workers in Southeast Asia are increasingly facing technology-facilitated sexual violence
Migrant women domestic workers face new technologies enabling digital surveillance, sextortion, deepfake pornography and unsolicited sexual messaging.