PROJECT SUMMARY

Satellite photo showing city lights showing human activity in India, China, South Korea and Japan from space.

Voices of Asia

Focus Areas: News & Media, Mobilities, Social Services, Health
Status: Active

Voices of Asia is an open-access multi-volume publication initiative to foreground vernacular, indigenous, non-Anglophone knowledge and regional perspectives in work originally produced in Asian languages and intellectual traditions. It is jointly produced by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) and the Leiden Asia Centre (LAC).

Voices of Asia is a non-traditional academic publication. It features short perspective essays, interviews, interventions, and opinion pieces, either translated from Asian languages written by representatives of important voices—including innovators, policymakers, independent scholars, journalists, think-tank researchers, and technologists—or adapted and trans-created from those voices to capture emerging debates on key contemporary issues that are either sidelined or ignored in dominant Anglophone scholarship.

The inaugural volume, AI/Automation, will be published later. Please keep an eye on our website or subscribe to our newsletter to keep track of the project’s latest updates.

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PROJECT OBJECTIVES

To bringing non-Anglophone scholarship into global AI debates, featuring short “perspective” essays, translated landmark essays, and interview-based contributions.

To highlight non-academic voices in technology communication, featuring policy researchers, journalists, independent scholars, think-tank researchers, industry insiders and technologists.