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SUMMARY: “A Tunnel to a Sacred Place: Resistance to the Carceral Geographie
 s of Militarism in Hawai’i.” with Dr. Laurel Mei Singh
DESCRIPTION: The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents: D
 r. Laurel Mei Singh Assistant Professor\, Department of Geography and Envir
 onment & Centre for Asian American Studies\, University of Texas at Austin 
 “A Tunnel to a Sacred Place: Resistance to the Carceral Geographies of Mili
 tarism in Hawai’i.” Co-sponsored by the Transformative Memory Network WHEN 
 & WHERE Zoom […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p style="text-align: center\;"><span style="
 font-size: 20px\;"><sub><span class="s1">The Social Justice Institute<br />
 </span></sub>Noted Scholars Series presents:</span></p><h2 style="text-alig
 n: center\;"><span style="color: #800000\;"><strong>Dr. Laurel Mei Singh</s
 trong></span><br /><span style="color: black\; font-size: 16px\;">Assistant
  Professor\, Department of Geography and Environment & Centre for Asian Ame
 rican Studies\, University of Texas at Austin</span></h2><p><img class=" wp
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 \; color: #993300\;"><span style="color: #993300\;"><span style="font-size:
  20px\;"><strong>“A Tunnel to a Sacred Place: Resistance to the Carceral Ge
 ographies of Militarism in Hawai’i.”</strong></span></span></span></p><p st
 yle="text-align: center\;">Co-sponsored by the Transformative Memory Networ
 k</p><hr /><p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>WHEN & WHERE</strong></p
 ><p style="text-align: center\;"><strong>Zoom<br /></strong>March 9th\, 12-
 1 PM <strong><br /></strong></p><p style="text-align: center\;"><span style
 ="color: #800000\;"><strong><sup>RSVP's for this event are now closed.</sup
 ></strong></span></p><h3 style="text-align: center\;">[accordions collapsib
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 t-align: center\;"><sup>All events are free and open to the public.</sup></
 p><div>This presentation will examine the antagonistic relationship between
  military occupation and locally situated human-environment intimacy that s
 tands central to struggles for healthy livelihoods\, environmental justice\
 , and decolonization. Ethnographic and archival research in Hawai‘i\, a pla
 ce critical to US defense strategy\, informs a theorization of military fen
 ces as a spatial expression of geographies of race and colonialism. They si
 gnify the state’s attempts to impose order through strategies of occupation
 \, possession\, and differentiation through the production of uneven access
  to life-giving resources. Yet while Hawai‘i functions as the Pacific Comma
 nd headquarters that oversee military operations across half the earth’s su
 rface\, military presence does not impose unilateral hegemony on the island
 s. Rather\, grassroots collective action that draws from Indigenous paradig
 ms of human-environment connectivity persists and thrives. <i>A </i><i>Tunn
 el</i><i> to a Sacred Place</i> thus affirms the centrality of Hawai‘i and 
 the Pacific to US warmaking while proposing a theory of Indigenous resistan
 ce against and in the shadows of a militarized carceral state.</div><div></
 div><hr /><div><strong>Laurel Mei-Singh</strong> serves as an Assistant Pro
 fessor of Geography and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas a
 t Austin. Her research interests include environmental justice\, militariza
 tion\, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war\, fence
 s and self-determination\, abolition\, racial capitalism\, and the Pacific.
  Her current project develops a genealogy of military fences and grassroots
  struggles for land and livelihood in Wai‘anae\, a rural and heavily milita
 rized region of the island of O’ahu in Hawai’i.</div>
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