This panel explores intersections between (anti/de)colonial ecologies across the Caribbean, Oceania (Hawaiʻi), and the Philippines. Unsettling discourses that de-historicize the relationship between colonialism and our contemporary climate crises, we highlight insurgent diasporic, Indigenous, and (Afro) Asian negotiations with ecologies of extraction and racial capitalism. In doing so, we aim to respond to climate justice scholarsʻ calls to attend to the interlapping relationship between the making of colonial earth (Yusoff) and uneven experiences of climate injustice. We ask: How might bringing Caribbean, Pacific, and Asian geographies expand conversations on colonial ecologies? How might our understanding of Black, Indigenous , Diasporic and Asian ecologies expand in thinking archipelagically about various sites of U.S. empire? What kinds of futurities might we glean from engaging diasporic / Indigenous / Asian / Black epistemologies and everyday acts of refusal? Click here to register for the event.

The event is co-sponsored by The Asian-Indigenous Relationalities Speaker Series (AAAS), Dartmouth College’s Provost Fellowship Program and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Afro-Asia Group, and the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s American Studies Department.

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Moderator:

Aree Worawongwasu, PhD candidate in American Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Panelists:

Katherine Achacoso, lecturer and PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

Tao Leigh Goffe, PhD, founder of Dark Laboratory and Afro-Asia Group, Assistant Professor of literary theory and cultural history at Cornell University

Hi’Ilei Hobart, PhD, Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University

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