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.

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Island and Ocean Ecologies

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Indigenous Ecologies

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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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Research Projects

Asia Pacific Observatory Projects

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Stories of the Land

"Stories of the Land" introduce animals, foods and policies in relation to farming and agricultural...

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Indigenous Ecologies

"Indigenous Ecologies" examines how the indigenous people in the trans-Pacific context forge practices that invoke...

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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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Joni Adamson

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Hsinya Huang

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Xiangzhan Cheng

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Shiuhhauh Serena Chou

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Eric Clark

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Elizabeth DeLoughrey

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Simon Estok

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Linda Hogan

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Rong-feng Hsieh

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Rose Hsiu-li Juan

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Woosung Kang

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Ikue Kina

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Szu-hsien Lee

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Yu-lin Lee

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Iping Liang

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Yih-ren Lin

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Yvonne Chia-hua Lin

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Li-ru Lu

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Syaman Rapongan

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Karen N. Salt

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