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The Ecotone with Dr. Gillian Bogart - Making Livelihoods in Muddy Margins

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People of Olio have long made their lives in the coastal zone of Kupang Bay. The wetlands that encircle bay waters are a source of sustenance and kinship, as well as a place of connection. However, in the last three decades national initiatives have catalyzed widespread conversion of these wetlands into property for commercial salt production. This talk considers how different modes of knowing shape the physical landscape as well as more-than-human relations within it. Thinking with human foragers, molluscs, and vegetal life, Dr. Gillian Bogart shows intertidal mudflats as a vibrant multi-species assemblage. She describes some of the ways that this muddy world-in-the-making offers possibilities to step away from forms of state governance that have come to permeate everyday life. Dr. Gillian Bogart joins the Department of Asian Studies from UC Santa Cruz, bringing innovative scholarship on the more-than-human worlds of Southeast Asia. This Ecotone will be hosted at Moore Hall 319, from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM. Lunch will be provided, so please be sure to register for this event! We hope to see you there!

Ticket Information
Free! Register here - https://go.hawaii.edu/ajm

Event Sponsor
The Center for Pacific Island Studies, The Department of Asian Studies, & The AAPI Environmental Humanities & Environmental Justice Initiative, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Michelle Harangody, 808-956-0926, msharan@hawaii.edu,