On Wednesday, April 30 at 12pm, Candace Fujikane gave a talk called “Asian Settler Activism in an Era of Climate Change” over Zoom as part of the Asian American Seed Stewards guest lecture series with Amado Khaya Initiative. She talks about how Asian settlers have actively stood on the front lines to protect the waters of Mauna a Wakea and to help rebuild Lahaina from the ashes of anthropogenic wildfires, connecting Asians to land, and new directions in settler-colonial critique and possibilities confronting an era of climate change.

Candace Fujikane is a Japanese setter on Kanaka Maoli lands. She is an English professor at the University of Hawaii. In 2000, she co-edited with Jonathan Okamura a special issue of Amerasia Journal on Asian settler colonialism. That issue was expanded into Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawaiï (University of Hawaii Press, 2008). Her book, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaii was published by Duke University Press in 2021. She is currently working on her new book, Elemental Cartographies for a Changing Earth.

The recording will be posted on Amado Khaya Initiative Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@amadokhaya