Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i Fujikane Candace
Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i Fujikane Candace In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that…
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Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawai'i Fujikane Candace
In Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future, Candace Fujikane contends that mapping abundance is a radical act in the face of settler capital's fear of an abundance that feeds. By contrast, Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) cartographies map the continuities of abundant worlds. Cartographies of capital enable the seizure of abundant lands by enclosing "wastelands" it claims are underdeveloped.
As a participant in these movements, Fujikane maps the ecological lessons of these elemental forms: reptilian deities who protect the waterways, sharks who swim into the mountains, the navigator Māui who fishes up the islands, the deities of snow and mists on Mauna Kea. Vital to restoration movements is the art of kilo, intergenerational observation of elemental forms encoded in storied histories, chants, and songs. The laws of these elements are now being violated by toxic waste dumping,