Comprehensive Programme of the AAEH: Altered Earth in Asia (ALEA)
Project 1: Digital publication series (Scheduled to be implemented from November 2024)
Project 2: Book publication series (Scheduled to start from AAEH 2025, September 2025)
This programme is inspired by Professor Dr. Julia Adeney Thomas’s Altered Earth: Getting the Anthropocene Right (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and under her kind advisory. We are looking forward to developing projects such as an online glossary for the “Anthropocene,” workshops for young scholars, panels at the AAEH conference, book projects with original academic articles, etc.
Objective of the Project 1
- The scope of the digital publication series of the ALEA project is building an online platform for scholars and non-scholars from multiple disciplines to share and co-produce knowledge on the “Anthropocene” in the context of Asia.
- The Anthropocene’s multifaceted impacts, physical and social, in Asia are the central concern of this project, even if it is judged to be premature as a geological age. Far from being uniform, these impacts vary in severity and pace. Some societies are better positioned to cope with the unpredictable nature of “Anthropocenic challenges” than others, a problem compounded by the fact that natural disasters, fresh water depletion, biodiversity loss and other aspects of this global crisis do not respect national borders. We aim to elucidate different facets of the Altered Earth in Asia in specific ways, conscious of social, political, economic, cultural and demographic factors as well as the biogeophysical forces.
Objective of the Project 2
- Preparations are underway for AAEH 2025, and the concept for Project 2 will be refined throughout the process and the conference.
- We look forward to a wide range of suggestions, and at the same time, the Association’s secretariat will continue to make every possible effort.