Contested Development Annual Lecture- Commoning and Decannonizing Political Ecology: An example from Melanesia and New York City

Speaker: Paige West, Anthropology Department, Barnard College and Columbia University

How must the field of Political Ecology transform in order to meet the demands of a changing world? This talk considers the possible futures of the field through a discussion of a decade long collaborative project located in New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. The collaboration, between an anthropological political ecologist, an Indigenous fisheries management expert, and a range of Indigenous and non-Indigenous project directors, participants, and critics, provides the ground for questions of decolonizing research, decannonizing scholarly texts within fields, and decentering the traditional epistemic products connected to research projects.

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