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Laura Williams: Stories From Kauaʻi: A Changing Agrarian Landscape

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Amenity migration accelerated to places like Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi during the COVID 19 pandemic. The impacts of this migration and the massive land acquisitions by billionaires and billionaire development corporations is a visceral experience that continues to evolve. While scholars have addressed amenity migration and billionaire conservation, much less attention has been given to these socetial shifts in Indigenous and post-planation landscapes. In this research, I pay particular attention to grounded, everyday material realities as well as the multi-scalar and multi-temporal aspects that have led to this particular moment in time and what the implications have been.

About the speaker: Laura Williams is a PhD candidate in the Geography and Environment Department. She has undergraduate training in Geography and Environmental Resources and Outdoor Education. She has lived on Kauaʻi for thirteen years.

This talk is based in part on research that Laura conducted in Hamilton Library's Daniel K. Inouye papers.

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College of Social Sciences, Mānoa Campus

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Jenna L.A. Saito , 808.956.3631, jlsaito@hawaii.edu