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ASLE-ASEAN is an affiliate of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). ASLE-ASEAN is formed in ASEAN, the regional Association of South-east Asian Nations.
The ASEAN region – comprised of nations with varying degrees of ecological awareness and in different stages of development – is proud of its diverse cultures and ecologies. However, it is also aware of the vulnerability of the region, having survived the Tsunami and subsequent El Niño typhoons—to name only a few disasters precipitated by climate change and global warming in the past decades. The people of ASEAN, therefore, feel the urgent need to come together to examine various ecological issues in a systematic way from a scholarly perspective.
ASLE-ASEAN provides a useful platform to facilitate dialogue between academics, scholars from ecological humanities and ecocritics from different nations within ASEAN. Members will give voice to the multiple perspectives necessary to calibrate the ongoing interactions between humans and non-humans. Accordingly, we focus on areas such as climate change, biodiversity-depletion, ecojustice and related themes through the critical analysis of literature, art, film, music and popular culture, both local and global.
Journal of Southeast Asian Ecocriticism (JSEAE) is the official journal of ASLE-ASEAN, an affiliate of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE). The journal seeks to provide a useful platform to facilitate dialogue between academics, scholars from ecological humanities and ecocritics from different nations within ASEAN (the regional Association of Southeast Asian Nations) or those researching on ASEAN countries. The aim is give voice to the multiple perspectives necessary to calibrate the ongoing interactions between humans and non-humans. Accordingly, the journal focuses on areas such as climate change, biodiversity depletion, ecojustice, colonial and postcolonial ecological issues and other related themes through the critical analysis of literature, art, film, music and popular culture in order to explore the relation between human beings and the natural world. We welcome articles from literary scholars, environmental historians, specialists in the visual and performing arts, environmental philosophers, geographers, economists, ecologists, and scholars in other fields relevant to literature and environment in Southeast Asia. The journal also publishes poetry, fiction and literary nonfiction relevant to its scope, context and thematic focus.