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Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
INTRODUCTION: How creative art helps us understand & represent nature & climate change
Southeast Asian visual art, film, literature, photography and design help us grapple with the slow unfolding of crises such as rising sea levels, pollution and drought.
The potential and risks of environmental storytelling in Southeast Asia
Deeper understanding of planetary crises requires the insights from the arts and Humanities and Social Sciences.
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.
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.
Security, surveillance, protection from maritime crime and piracy in Southeast Asia
There are several problematic trends which may give pirates, terrorists and other criminals the opportunity needed to re-emerge as a threat.