Written by Darryl Sterk Like their counterparts at Indigenous language revitalization offices around Taiwan, my friends at the Seediq language revitalization office, which is located in the town of Puli near the island’s geographical centre, are ‘autoethnobotanists,’ people who study their…
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Written by Shaw-wu Jung In an interesting article, Boeck (1998) explores how in building ecological space local people make sense of their material, symbolic, and metaphoric worlds. To put his insights in a context in which a successful reconstruction of…
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Written by Justyna Jaguscik In the 2010s, following the global virality of Chai Jing’s 柴静 movie Under the Dome (穹顶之下 Qiongding zhi xia, 2015), which addressed the impact of air pollution on children’s health from the perspective of a concerned mother,…
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Written by Adam Liebman Four garbage bins for four categories of waste: wet, hazardous, recyclable, and dry. In 2019, news stories about Shanghai residents being forced to sort and deposit their household waste according to these categories rippled through the international…
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Written by Ross Anthony For the past two centuries, a crucial tenant of western proselytising has been liberty by way of free markets – by force, if need be. Given today, most of the world operates according to principles of…
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Written by Jessica Imbach The phenomenal rise of Chinese science fiction since the 1990s coincides not only with China’s transformation into the world’s second largest economy, but also growing global awareness of the environmental crisis. Several contemporary works, including the…
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Written by Editor Our ninth issue explores a variety of themes, topics and visions in the study of the environment and ecologies. We asked contributors to reflect on the various ways in which environment and ecologies are/have been understood, inhabited,…
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