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Brown Bag Biography with Laurel Mei-Singh

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The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “The Political Economy of Environmental Racism in Waiʻanae” / Laurel Mei-Singh, Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment and Asian American Studies, University of Texas at Austin / Many describe Wai‘anae as a classic environmental justice site, where people marginalized by racial and colonial processes face disproportionate toxic burdens. Yet noxious pollution is only one piece of a much larger problem. Dr. Mei-Singh will elucidate how militarized enclosures restrict human relations with the natural world, producing uneven access to life-giving resources along racial lines—even as the environment serves as the basis of life, abundance, and connection. Understood through this lens, militarism and racism are fundamentally spatial and environmental projects that often work together. / Laurel Mei-Singh serves as an Assistant Professor of Geography and Asian American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and previously served as an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of 51���׻���‘i at ����ԴDz�. Her current book project develops a genealogy of military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Wai‘anae. A devoted public scholar, she has worked closely with 51���׻���‘i Peace and Justice and the Wai‘anae Environmental Justice Working Group. She was born and raised near Lēahi on O‘ahu. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the 51���׻���ʻinuiākea School of 51���׻���ian Knowledge, the Center for Oral History, the Matsunaga Institute, Conflict and Peace Specialist, the School of Communication & Information, the Departments of Departments of American Studies, English, Ethnic Studies, Geography and Environment, and Sociology / Thursday, October 12 / KUY 410 / 12 noon to 1:15PM HST

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