Candace Fujikane joins us on A Public Affair to explain how mapping abundance is a profoundly decolonial act, and how much is to be learned from Kanaka Maoli (native Hawaiians) in the face of climate change. 

Candace Fujikane is Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi. She is a Japanese settler ally who stands for the protection of lands and waters in Hawaiʻi while supporting Hawaiian political independence. In 2020, she was awarded the Engaged Scholar Award by the Association for Asian American Studies. She has published Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi in 2021. She is working on her new book, Elemental Cartographies for a Changing Earth.

She’ll be giving the keynote address tonight at the GAFIS Symposium 2023, Living the Land: Global and Local (Trans)Formations.

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