Candace Fujikane
University of Hawaiʻi
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Candace L. Fujikane
Professor of English, University of Hawai‘i
cfujikane@gmail.com and fujikane@hawaii.edu
EDUCATION
1996 PhD English, University of California, Berkeley
Examination Fields: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American Literature, Asian American Literature. Oral exams passed with Distinction
1990 BA English with Highest Honors, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2020–present: Professor, English Department, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
2000–2020: Associate Professor, English Department, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
BOOK
Elemental Cartographies for a Changing Earth: Activating Decolonial and Abolitionist
Futures in Hawaiʻi. Book in progress.
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler
Cartographies in Hawaiʻi. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2021.
COLLECTIONS EDITED
Candace Fujikane and Jonathan Okamura, eds. Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local
Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2008.
PUBLICATIONS
“ʻTo Breathe the Akua’: Aloha ʻĀina in the Poetry and Activism of Haunani-Kay Trask.”
The Work, Art, and Activism of Haunani-Kay Trask. A special issue of the American Indian Cultural and Research Journal. Forthcoming.
“Cartographies of Kanaloa: Inundation and Restoration.” Oceanic Ways of Knowing. Ed.
Donna Honarpisheh. Miami: Institute of Contemporary Art. Forthcoming.
“Asian Settler Allies in a Decolonial and Abolitionist Movement: Honoring Mauna a
Wākea and the Laws of the Elements.” In Contemporary Asian American Activism. Eds. Diane Wong and Mark Tseng-Putterman. New York: New York University Press, forthcoming.
“In Memoriam: Haunani-Kay Trask.” Journal of Asian American Studies 25:1
(February 2022): 131–139.
Kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui, Candace Fujikane, Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, Kerry
Kamakaoka‘ilima Long and Kekailoa Perry. “Teaching for Maunakea: Kiaʻi Perspectives” Asian American and Pacific Islander Activism. Ed. Diane Fujino. A special issue of Amerasia Journal, vol. 46 (2019).
“Huakaʻi Kakoʻo no Waiʻanae Environmental Justice Bus Tour.” Detours: A Decolonial
Guide to Hawaiʻi, edited by Hokulani Aikau and Vernadette Gonzalez. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019.
“Mapping Abundance on Mauna a Wākea as a Practice of Ea.” No ka Pono o ka Lāhui.
Eds. Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright and Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua. A spec. issue of Hūlili: Multidisciplinary Research on Hawaiian Well-Being 11:1 (2019):
23-54.
“Against the Yellowwashing of Israel: Liberatory Solidarities Across Settler States.”
Flashpoints for Asian American Studies. Ed. Cathy Schlund-Vials. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017.
Links
Asian America Rising: Contemporary Activism in Theory and Practice
Since the beginning of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Asian racism has become visible in the U.S. mainstream in new and pronounced ways. Yet critical attention to the structures of anti-Asian racism—and myriad forms of Asian American resistance—have been subsumed under sanitized slogans such as “Stop Asian Hate.” Framing anti-Asian racism as exceptional, individualized acts of hate, such understandings do not clarify the structural roots of anti-Asian violence, nor do they provide the sustained momentum to build a movement to overthrow such structures.
Responding to this year’s conference theme of sustainable publics, this panel brings together contributors to the forthcoming Asian America Rising: Movement Visions and New Directions in Asian American Activism to share reflections on sustaining Asian American movements in the face of carceral violence, institutional co-optation, environmental crises, and beyond. Key questions we hope to address include: What are the uses and limits of Asian American identity in the context of an increasingly diverse Asian American community? How do local and transnational movements around the issues of deportation, gentrification, prison abolition, decolonization, and militarization decenter the US nation-state as the sole arbiter of political rights? And what kinds of ethical practices and modes of relation are possible between the academic discipline of Asian American studies and the social movements many of us seek to work alongside?
Following the Water to Alternative Economies, Temporalities, and Epistemologies
The haunting decisions made by the US military remain visible today along a constellation of current environmental catastrophes and struggles. During World War II, 25,000 barrels of DDT was haphazardly dumped to the seafloor between Catalina island and just off the coast of Long Beach, California, where the AAAS conference will be gathering. Also during WWII, in Hawai‘i, the US military seized and devastated the island of Kaho‘olawe for military exercises meant to train various branches of the military to recapture islands from the Japanese military. The US military at this time, also created the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, meant to hide and preserve an enormous fuel source for the US Navy in Pearl Harbor. Considered an engineering marvel at the time, in 2021, 27,000 gallons of jet fuel leaked into the aquifer of the island contaminating the island’s water source and harming families. Currently, the people of Guahan are fighting to protect Ritidian from the US military who plans to use this sacred area for land from Live Fire Training. This could have devastating effects, including contamination of the island’s water source. This panel faces the work of growing non-extractive relations to the planet by following Native efforts to restore connections between above-ground river systems and underground aquifers; history and futurity; wealth and care. In this sense, our papers “follow the water” to alternative economies, temporalities, and epistemologies.
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