Tag: Asia
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Conserving Pangolins from a Distance
in EssaysTrang Đặng develops an ethics of care for pangolins, despite living a world away. Her “respectful distance” is a form of companionship rooted in humility, one that acknowledges interdependence without claiming possession and embraces intimacy without proximity.
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Navegando el Eco-Duelo con Prácticas Ancestrales del Duelo
in EssaysEl eco-duelo puede sentirse aislante, pero Christina Guevara y Rae Jing Han se inspiran en prácticas ancestrales filipinas y chinas para desarrollar formas colectivas de duelo.
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Imagining New Futures in West Papua’s Plantation Forestscape
in ReviewsJessica Richardson reviews Sophie Chao’s book IN THE SHADOW OF THE PALMS, with a focus on indigenous groups’ nuanced feelings and relations with plantation lifeworlds as well as their radical openness toward the future.
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Diving into the Aquatic Depths of East Asian Ecohorror
in EssaysIn ecohorror movies like Shin Godzilla and The Host, pollution fights back in the form of rampaging sea monsters. Lindsay S. R. Jolivette traces the significance of water in these films—and what it reveals about our worst nightmares.
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Praying for Forgiveness: Religious Ethics of Sustainability in Muslim Indonesia
in EssaysIn the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, environmental ethics and social critique derive from longstanding Islamic practices such as “praying for forgiveness.”