ASLEC-ANZ is the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment & Culture Australia & New Zealand
Our membership comprises writers, artists, cinematographers, and musicians and academics working across disciplines the environmental arts and humanities, including literary and cultural studies, art history and theory, history, science and technology studies, anthropology, queer, feminist and anti-colonial theory, philosophy and cultural geography.
At the start of 2022 we began a collective process to decolonise the organisation. This is a slow process. So far it has manifested as a new editorial policy for the journal Swamphen and feedback on submissions to conference that include Indigenous content but are by non-Indigenous scholars to let them know of our commitment to decolonising our methods.
ASLEC-ANZ is devoted to:
- Fostering scholarly and creative work that explores the relationship between human cultures, natural history and planetary ecologies;
- Sharing information and ideas about how the arts and humanities are responding to the global environmental crisis;
- Encouraging discussion, publications and practices responding to environmental issues and natural history from diverse creative, critical and cultural perspectives; and
- Promoting the role of critical arts scholarship and creative practice in the interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities.
ASLEC-ANZ is affiliated with a worldwide network of similar associations, of which the first was founded in the USA in 1992 (www.asle.org), followed by Korea (ASLE-Korea), the UK & Ireland (ASLE UKI), Japan (ASLE), Europe (EASCLE), India (OSLE and ASLE) and Canada (ALECC).
ASLEC-ANZ welcomes your participation in our organisation. Join us.
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ASLEC-ANZ is a volunteer organisation designed to support a community of critical and creative environmental artists (including musicians, filmmakers & writers) and academics at all stages of their careers. It runs on the in kind and financial support of its members.
To become a member or renew your membership please, visit our Join Us page.
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