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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.
‘A Malaysian Ecocriticism Reader: Considerations of Nature, Culture, Place & Identities’, eds. Agnes S.K. Yeow & Wai Liang Tham
This book reminds us that the stories we tell about nature are inextricable from how we imagine the future of culture.
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.