Inquiries
Melbourne Asia Review is a research-based publication of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.
Understanding why, when and how Australia promotes human rights in Asia
In pursuing its foreign policy, Australia has to balance various interests in human rights, security and prosperity.
The many challenges of fighting against enforced disappearances in Asia
Many Asian countries still do not understand the nature of enforced disappearance, and often believe the issue is not relevant in their countries.
‘queerqueen: Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media’ by Claire Maree
What linguistic anthropologist Miyako Inoue did for Japanese women’s language, Maree has done for onē-kotoba and onē-kyara—the language of queerqueen personalities.
Global civil society must promote linguistic rights for China’s Indigenous peoples
China is involved in historical denialism that enables the Party-state to continue human rights abuses against vulnerable linguistic communities.
Politicising the natural environment through Indonesian art
Many Indonesian artists discuss natural disasters not in isolation, but in relation to broader social, political and historical processes and injustices.