Asia Rising - #176: Himalayan Refugees and Climate Change

#176: Himalayan Refugees and Climate Change

12/13/21 • 22 min

The Himalaya and the adjacent Tibetan plateau house the globe's third biggest ice packed are the source of most of Asia's major rivers.

Over the past century of the people of these mountains have had to endure colonisation unstable geopolitics, and now a climate changing at twice the global average. Despite this they have survived and in some cases thrived, coming up with innovative ways to approach these changes.

Guest:

Tsechu Dolma (Co-founder and Director, Mountain Resiliency Project)

Host:

Dr Ruth Gamble (DECRA Fellow, History, La Trobe University)

Recorded on 8 December, 2021.

The Himalaya and the adjacent Tibetan plateau house the globe's third biggest ice packed are the source of most of Asia's major rivers.

Guest:

Tsechu Dolma (Co-founder and Director, Mountain Resiliency Project)

Host:

Dr Ruth Gamble (DECRA Fellow, History, La Trobe University)

Recorded on 8 December, 2021.

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#175: The Architecture of Repression in Xinjiang

Since the mass internment of Uyghurs and other indigenous groups in China was first reported in 2017, there is now a rich body of literature documenting recent human rights abuses in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. However, there is little knowledge of the actual perpetrators inside China’s vast and opaque party-state system.

A report published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) maps and analyses the governance mechanisms employed by the Chinese party-state in Xinjiang. While the international debate continues as to whether the recent events in Xinjiang constitute genocide, this report gathers the relevant evidence before it could be covered up, and makes it publicly available.

Guests:

Professor James Leibold (Head of the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University)
Daria Impiombato (Researcher at ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre)

Recorded on 24 November, 2021.

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#177: Health Systems and the Pandemic

As we enter year three of the covid-19 and settle into our schedule of working from home, home-schooling and hopefully not catching a deadly plague, how are health systems in Asia coping and adapting with the pandemic?

Guest:
Professor Vivian Lin (Executive Associate Dean of LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong and Adjunct Professor of La Trobe Asia).

Recorded on 16 January, 2022.