The Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) is pleased to announce the publication of a new volume in the IAS/Springer “Asia in Transition” Series, Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia edited by Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan and Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach.
This book addresses the increasingly important subject of ecomedia by critically examining the interconnections between environment, ecology, media forms, and popular culture in the Southeast Asian region, exploring methods such as textual analysis, thematic analysis, content analysis, participatory ethnography, auto ethnography, and semi-structured interviewing.
It is divided into four sections: I. Activism, Environment, and Indigeneity; II. Political, Ecologies and Urban Spaces; III. Narratives, Discourses, and Aesthetics; and IV. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Islands, covering topics such as broadcast media (radio and TV) and the environment; green cinema and ecodocumentaries, ecodigital art, digital environmental literature. It is of great interest to researchers, students, practitioners and scholars working in the area of humanities, media, communications, cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental studies, and sustainability.
To access the chapters in this volume, please visit the Springer/IAS “Asia in Transition” Series website.
Jason Paolo R. Telles is an Assistant Professor of Broadcast Communication of the University of the Philippines, Baguio. As an ecocritic, he has presented and published his research on Indigenous mediation of eco-cosmovisions, critical animal and media studies, and ecomedia studies in various conferences, books, and academic journals. Apart from that, his other research interests are media anthropology, Indigenous media studies, and media linguistics. He is a member of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment – Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASLE-ASEAN) and the Southeast Asian Media Studies Association.
John Charles Ryan is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Nulungu Institute, Notre Dame University, Australia. His research focuses on Aboriginal Australian literature, Southeast Asian ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, ecopoetics, and critical plant studies. His recent publications include Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (2021, authored with J. Andrew Hubbell), The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence (2021, edited with Monica Gagliano and Patrícia Vieira) and Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts (2021, edited with Debajyoti Biswas). In late-2021, he was Visiting Professor of Literary Theory and Methodology at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach (PhD Candidate, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) is an Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the Department of Filipino of De La Salle University in Manila, The Philippines. His research interests include the political economy of popular culture, politics of Southeast Asian media, and language and media. His works were also published in the fields of sociolinguistics, public health, and Philippine cultural studies. He is a member of the Southeast Asian Media Studies Association and the Philippine International Studies Organization. He is also an editorial board member of the Malaysian Journal of Media Studies (Universiti Malaya).
Jason Paolo Telles, John Charles Ryan, Jeconiah Louis Dreisbach (eds.). 2022. Environment, Media, and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia. IAS/Springer Asia in Transition Series. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1130-9
Information about the other titles in the IAS/Springer – Asia in Transition series can be found here.
