01 - Livable Futures - Indigenous Futures w/ Emalani Case

An activist, writer and dancer from Waimea, Hawaiʻi, Emalani Case is deeply engaged in issues of indigenous rights and representation, dietary colonialism, and environmental and social justice. Her current research focuses on Hawaiian articulations of identity and nationalism, sovereignty, and decolonising indigenous minds and bodies. She is a lecturer in Pacific Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand/Aoteoroa.

Read more about her here: 

people.wgtn.ac.nz/emalani.case
Read about the event we attended together in February 2020: Talanoa Mao, New Zealand Festival of the Arts: www.festival.nz/events/all/talano…mau-we-need-talk/

SHOW NOTES:
Recorded February 2020 in Wellington, New Zealand:
Emalani shares the Samoan concept of Va:
openrepository.aut.ac.nz/handle/10292/366
She references the work of:
Epeli Hau`ofa (1939-2009)
creativetalanoa.com/2012/06/07/insp…t-epeli-hauofa/
Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada, “We Live in the Future. Come Join Us”
hehiale.com/2015/04/03/we-live-…uture-come-join-us/
dlnr.hawaii.gov/mk/files/2017/02/…m-exhibit-J-9.pdf
And talks about the importance of the Kalo/Taro Plant
www.farmtokeiki.org/taro-kalo/