Postcolonial Ecologies: Literatures of the Environment is the first edited collection to bring ecocritical studies into a necessary dialogue with postcolonial studies.
This article discusses the need to broaden the debate about land rush by including a few key issues that have been neglected. Control over land is increasingly dictated by global actors and processes, leading to a patchwork of locally disembedded land holdings, not conducive for inclusive and sustainable development at the local level.
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies evaluates local and indigenous ecological knowledge which may help populations cope with insecurity due to environmental, sociopolitical and economic stressors, through positive examples from Southeast Asian islands.
The essays in this collection explore how masculine roles, identities, and practices shape human relationships with the more-than-human world.
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.
Akamine Jun explores foodways of whale meat in Japan, specifically detailing Baird’s-beaked- whaling in eastern Japan.
Noell Wilson details Japanese attempts to integrate modern-day Hokkaido into the Tokugawa political sphere via drift-whale policy.
Jakobina Arch contrasts the modern Japanese whaling industry with expansionist imperial Meiji regime policies.
