Asia Pacific Observatory
Toward Blue Humanities
Between Land and Sea
The Asia Pacific Observatory aims to work toward a blue humanities, employing “the Pacific” as a contact zone, method, and concept to examine the dynamic and shifting relationship between land and sea that allows literatures, arts, and other cultural productions in the trans-Pacific context to be engaged in their eco-poetic complexity.


Asia Pacific Observatory
Scholarly Alliances
The Asia-Pacific Observatory, which includes four independent but interrelated groups of projects, seeks to build scholarly alliances whose area of expertise and research interest adequately accord with the vision and purpose of the Humanities for the Environment, while facilitating global network with other Observatories.
Project
Island and Ocean Ecologies

Project
Indigenous Ecologies

Project
Stories of the Land

Publication
Ecoambiguity: Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures
Ecoambiguity closely examines East Asian creative portrayals of inconsistent and contradictory human attitudes, behaviors, and information/knowledge concerning the environment.

Main Hub
National Sun Yat-sen University
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Global Humanities Projects
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Global Humanities Affiliates
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Global Humanities Partners
Research Projects
Asia Pacific Observatory Projects
Project
Stories of the Land
"Stories of the Land" introduce animals, foods and policies in relation to farming and agricultural...
Project
Indigenous Ecologies
"Indigenous Ecologies" examines how the indigenous people in the trans-Pacific context forge practices that invoke...
Project
Island and Ocean Ecologies
"Island and Ocean Ecologies" investigate place and space from the perspective of the Oceanic peoples...
Observatory Affiliates
Community members, researchers and scholars.
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Affilates
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