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Place, Practice, and Ethics: Interracial Engagements of Spirituality, Land, and Relationality

Given how responsibility and relationships to land have been central to Indigenous spiritualities, what might Asian Americanists learn from Native American, Pasifika, Palestinian, and indigenous epistemologies about ecology, faith, and environmental ethics? How might scholars of Asian American and Pacific Islander religions take seriously the environment, land, and food as spiritual? One of the starting points for this panel’s interdisciplinary conversation is Candace Fujikane’s 2021 book Mapping Abundance: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i, which engages with Indigeneity, Euro-American-Asian settler colonialism in Hawai‘i, and fraught intersections of Asian and Pacific identities. The panelists share an interest in the critical nexus of spirituality, coloniality, and relationality, and offer their views of different embodied practices and narratives that resist settler-colonial epistemologies and cultural amnesia. Our exchange aims to animate discussions of Asian American and Pacific Islander interventions in relation to food security, land and water sovereignty, climate change, and the environment.

Tammy Ho

UC Riverside

Riverside, California, United States

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