This collection opens the geospatiality of ¿Asiä into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world belonging. At the transdisciplinary core of this ¿worlding¿ process lies the multiple spatial and temporal dynamics of an environmental eco-poetics, articulated via thinking and creating both with and beyond the Pacific and Asia imaginary.

Engages with Oceanic and Indigenous literature and culture

Part 1:Unearthing and Historicizing Regions.- Chapter 1: Geo-Political Fantasy: Continental Action Movies.- Chapter 2: Transpacific and Interracial World-Making in Eddie Huang's Fresh Off the Boat.- Chapter 3: The Place of Worlding: Subaltern Cosmopolitanism in Central Asia and Korea.- Chapter 4: Beyond Complicities: China as Eco-Peril and Worlding the Techno-Dystopian.- Chapter 5: Queering South Pacific into Ono Hai in Leche.- Chapter 6: My Beast, My Brother, and My Alpha Creation in Taiwanese Sci Fi.- Part 2: Activism, Vision, and Intervention.- Chapter 7: Violence, Magic, Certainty: Towards a Journalistic Worlding of the Middle East.- Chapter 8: Refugee Migration through the Division System: On the Ethics of Co-Presence in Krys Lee's How I Became a North Korean.- Chapter 9: The Crusades and a Marginal History of Islam: Tariq Ali's Activism and Alternative World in The Book of Saladin.- Chapter 10: Zeugmatic Formations: Balikbayan Boxes and the Filipino Diaspora Across Asia-Pacific Worlds.- Chapter 11: Call Me Ishimaru: Sailing Transpacific Worlds of Labor and Community from Japan to Brazil to the Americas.- Part 3: Planetary Creation: Critique and Cosmos.- Chapter 12: Friction or Flow? Ecological Transnationalism in Japanese Animation.- Chapter 13: Hurricanes and Kaiju: Climate Change and Toxicity Across the Pacific in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim.- Chapter 14: Albatross Unbound: Worlding the Plastic Sea.- Chapter 15: Agrarianism, Disappointment, and the Mystery of Witnessing.- Chapter 16: Listening to Archipelagic Rains.- Chapter 17: Trans-indigenous Coalitions and Ecological Ties Across Oceania (poetry).- Chapter 18: Epilogue; Reworlding Asia: Towards Alchemies of Planetary Regeneration.