Art Small state relations: Bhutan and Bangladesh March 30, 2020 1 Image credit: Talakha Goemba by Nitasha Kaul Written by Nitasha Kaul and Sangay Khandu. Inter-state rivalries between bigger states like India and China or India…
China The COVID-19 epidemic and China’s wildlife business interest March 12, 2020 5 Image credit: Wuhan New Coronavirus by 葉 正道 Ben/Flickr; Licence CC0 1.0. Written by Peter J. Li. Overshadowed for decades by China’s coastal cities, Wuhan…
Asia Change and integration: China’s legacy after 40 years of economic transformation January 30, 2020 0 Image Credit: RedEnvelopes by Ksionic/Flickr; licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Qing Shan Ding. Saturday 25 January 2020 marked the start of the Chinese Lunar…
Conservation Captive elephant tourism in Asia: Hope for Asian elephants or a threat? December 10, 2019 0 Image Credit: Thai Elephant, Dave Bezaire Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 Written by Jan Schmidt-Burbach. Malee, a 25-year-old female Asian elephant, is using her trunk…
Culture and Society The same dart trick: A posthuman perspective on tourism in Thailand November 5, 2019 0 Image Credit: Elephant throwing darts, Dennis Jarvis /Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0 Written by Kate Bone and Jane Bone. Introduction The exploitation of animals and…
Climate Change The effects of tourism on animal welfare in Asia November 4, 2019 0 Image Credit: Bear and elephant show, Malingering /Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NV-ND 2.0 Written by David Fennell. Scholars estimate that there are 120 billion animals that…
Asia The dull edge of extinction: Dholes as an absent presence in Jehirul Hussain’s ‘Raang Kukuror Tupi’ June 27, 2019 0 ‘…it is not only species that are becoming extinct but also the words, phrases, and gestures of human solidarity.’ Félix Guattari in The Three Ecologies…
Business Patterns in politics on palm oil June 7, 2019 0 Written by Otto Hospes. Image Credit: Oil palm by CIFOR/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The recent controversy between Indonesia and the EU over the revised EU Renewable Energy Directive…
Conservation Palm Oil Futures: Youth Perceptions in Indonesia June 5, 2019 1 Written by Ratih Indraswari, Stanislaus Risadi Apresian, Adam Tyson, Helena Varkkey and Shofwan Al Banna Choiruzzad. Image Credit to the authors. In 2006 Indonesia became…
Conservation The complex socioeconomic impacts of the oil palm expansion in Indonesia June 4, 2019 0 Written by Christoph Kubitza. Image Credit: Oil palm harvesting by CIFOR/Flickr, licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. The global demand for palm oil over the last few…
