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Melbourne Asia Review is an initiative of the Asia Institute. Any inquiries about Melbourne Asia Review should be directed to the Managing Editor, Cathy Harper.

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Museum climate requirements raise issues of fairness and access in Southeast Asia

  • A/Prof. Nicole Tse,

‘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

  • Elia Nurvista,

“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’

  • Dr Roger Nelson,

Understanding the natural world not as eternal, fixed and stable, but as constantly transforming with monsoon rains.

INTERVIEW: Global China is hugely impacting the world, but ‘China’ is not a single coherent actor giving orders from the top

  • Prof. Ching Kwan Lee,

‘Global China’ is shorthand for a very complex phenomenon with many different components.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in Indonesia: Reinforcing predatory, oligarchic and extractive capitalism?

  • Prof Andrew Rosser & Dr Randy Nandyatama,

The AIIB is an increasingly prominent part of China’s growing global footprint.