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The Ecotone with Micah Fisher - A Theory of Inheritance

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"A Theory of Inheritance: Plantations, Forests, Small Farms, and the Empirical Problem of Shared Land" - Much of the land question centers on the past for the claim of the present, but ideas of inheritance connect past and present to future. To inherit weaves together a generational process of care that operates around release and receipt through a framework of rights and responsibility. In this presentation, Assistant Professor Micah Fisher extends theories about property and the commons, along with the powers and mechanisms of access and exclusion, to examine land from a geographic, temporal, and intersectional vantage point. Reflecting on more than a decade of initiatives to claim Indigenous land rights recognition in the middle hills of Sulawesi, Micah describes the mosaic tapestry of how a plantation and a forest came to be, and how small farmer livelihoods continue to persist. Each plantation, forest, and small farm revolve around the persuasions of land and all it represents. Each connects legacy, improvement, and possibility.

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Free to Attend! Please register at https://go.hawaii.edu/yNm

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

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Michelle Harangody, (808) 956-0926, msharan@hawaii.edu