ALEA Project 1:
The Asian Anthropocene in Dialogue
Objective
- 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.
Editorial Committee:
- Shen Hou (Peking University, China)
- Jaehwan Hyun (Pusan National University, Korea)
- Shinobu Iguro (Otani University, Japan)
- Wakako Kumakura (Keio University, Japan)
- Jongmin Lee (Kunsan National University, Korea)
- Jung Lee (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
- Michael Shiyung Liu (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
- Jenia Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology, Khargpur, India)
- Atsushi Ota (Keio University, Japan)
- Federico Paolini (University of Macerata, Italy)
- Hrvoje Petrić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
- Fiona Williamson (Singapore Management University, Singapore)