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Facing the Limits of Decoloniality from a Southeast Asian Peri-urban Forest

Lecture: Center for Southeast Asia Studies | November 7 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Speaker:  Juno Salazar Parrenas, Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University

Panelist/Discussant:  Nancy Lee Peluso, Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy, UC Berkeley

Sponsor:  Center for Southeast Asia Studies

This talk argues that recent scholarly efforts to center decoloniality and indigenous knowledges risk romanticization when universalized. The research is drawn from transdisciplinary ethnographic field research in Sarawak, East Malaysia, with Malay and Iban orangutan-handlers and orangutans between 2010-2016.