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Just and Fair Adaptation Governance Across Plural Oceanic Worlds

Claudia Fry, visiting PhD candidate from the University of Exeter and the University of the South Pacific, Suva, shares her research exploring contestations around what constitutes just and fair governance of climate adaptation in iTaukei coastal communities in Fiji, particularly among communities resisting relocation or drawing on alternative, non–State-centric forms of relocation. The talk features stories from two village sites in Tailevu and Nadroga-Navosa that highlight the complex, place-based governance systems that intersect with postcolonial struggles for Indigenous marine rights amid tourism, development, and climate change. Claudia will also reflect more broadly on her journey as a PhD researcher, untangling issues of positionality conducting research in Fijian Indigenous communities and engaging in her own journey to decolonise her research through learning from the Vanua.

Ticket Information
Free to attend! Please Register at https://go.hawaii.edu/uUD

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

More Information
Michelle Harangody, (808) 956-0926, msharan@hawaii.edu, Enter Title Here (PDF)