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
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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
9
Global Humanities Projects
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Global Humanities Affiliates
18
Global Humanities Partners
Asia Pacific Observatory Projects
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Wushe
By Fran Chieh-Hsi Lee and Jayming Yang. Coordinator: Yu-lin Lee. Funded by Research Center of...
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Plants in Tzaishan
With an area of more than 1100 hectares, Tzaishan has more than 700 species of...
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Discourse, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship of Depleted Communities in Kaohsiung
Hsinya Huang, Rong-feng Hsieh, Li-ru Lu, and Szu-hsien Lee, Discourse, Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship of...
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A Historical Sketch of Agricultural Environment in Taiwan: Food Production, Politics, and Farm Life in the Field
By Fran Chieh-hsi Lee and Jayming Yang. Coordinator: Rose Hsiu-li Juan. Funded by Research Center...
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Ljavek: Urban Aborigines, Industrial Landscape, and Their Arts
In the 1950s, many Paiwan people from Pingtung and Taitung came to work in Kaohsiung,...
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Traditional Knowledge, Resilience, and Food Landscape
Traditional Knowledge, Resilience, and Food Landscape: International Ecology of the Aboriginal Yih-ren Lin In fidelity to...
Syaman Rapongan
Affiliate
Li-ru Lu
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Shiuhhauh Serena Chou
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Karen Thornber
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Fanren Zeng
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Robin Chen-hsing Tsai
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