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UC Press Becomes Publisher of Science Fiction Studies, which Releases New Special Issue on "Southeast Asian Speculative Fiction as Slipstream"

The guest editor of UC Press's new journal answers the question, "Why have a journal special issue on Southeast Asian speculative fiction?"
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Q&A with David Gilbert, author of Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land

Two decades ago, a group of Indonesian agricultural workers began occupying the agribusiness plantation near their homes. In the years since, members of this remarkable movement have reclaimed collective control of their land and cultivated diverse agricultural forests on it, repairing the damage do
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The urban resource frontiers that sustain city life

By Kristian Karlo Saguin, author of Urban Ecologies on the Edge: Making Manila's Resource FrontierCities around the world are learning to live with the challenges of increasing urban ecological precarity. In watery Manila, the metropolitan population of around 25 million is constantly expose
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Sonic Socialism: Crisis and Care in Pandemic Hanoi

by Christina Schwenkel (Author)
Nov 2025
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Atmospheric Knowledge: Environmentality, Latency, and Sonic Multimodality

by Birgit Abels (Author), Patrick Eisenlohr (Author)
Sep 2025
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Open Access