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X-WR-CALNAME:Inheritance\, Unsettled: Land\, Scholarly Parity\, and the Pos
 sibilities of Field Schools in Southeast Asia
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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\n*Please note this Gatty Lecture takes p
 lace on Friday at 1:15pm\, not Thursday at 12:15pm*\n\nJoin us for a talk 
 by Micah R. Fisher\, Assistant Professor\, Matsunaga Institute for Peace a
 nd Conflict Resolution\, School of Communication & Information at the Univ
 ersity of Hawai'i at Mānoa\n\nThis Gatty Lecture will take place at the K
 ahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch will be served. For questions\, conta
 ct seap@cornell.edu.\n\nAbstract\n\nThis presentation draws together criti
 cal agrarian studies and the geopolitics of knowledge production to examin
 e how inheritance remains unsettled\, both for those who inherit land in S
 outheast Asia and for those who inherit the work of studying it. The talk 
 unfolds in three parts. The first establishes a conceptual foundation grou
 nded in village-level land politics\, bringing foundational theories of pr
 operty\, access\, and exclusion into conversation with one another. The se
 cond draws on a decade of editorial experience with the journal Forest and
  Society\, reflecting on efforts to decenter academic publishing and eleva
 te a new generation of scholarship from the region. The third looks toward
  a future for area studies built on regional networks\, using joint field 
 schools as a model. This model has functioned as a mechanism for instituti
 onal parity with Southeast Asian universities\, while also working to buil
 d equitable partnerships with local communities. I conclude with a framewo
 rk for rethinking resource governance and collaborative pedagogy together 
 in the study of contemporary Southeast Asia.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nMicah
  R. Fisher\, Ph.D.\, is an Assistant Professor at the Matsunaga Institute 
 for Peace & Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa\, 
 and Senior Researcher with the Forest and Society Research Group at Hasanu
 ddin University in Makassar\, Indonesia. He studies how land\, forests\, a
 nd livelihoods are transformed across Indonesia and Southeast Asia through
  commodity booms\, conservation policy\, and shifting resource claims. Thi
 s research is grounded in over two decades of long-term fieldwork in South
  Sulawesi\, East Kalimantan\, and Jakarta. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of For
 est and Society\, a leading journal in Southeast Asian forest governance\,
  and serves as Conference Chair of the 2027 Biennial of the International 
 Association for the Study of the Commons\, to be hosted in Sulawesi\, Indo
 nesia. He also leads the Henry Luce Foundation–funded LuceSEA Transition
 s Field Schools\, a partnership with Southeast Asian universities. He hold
 s a Ph.D. in Geography and the Environment from the University of Hawaiʻi
  at Mānoa. His current book project\, Inheritance\, traces the aftermath 
 of the first formal return of state forest lands to an Indigenous communit
 y in Indonesia.
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LOCATION:Kahin Center
SUMMARY:Inheritance\, Unsettled: Land\, Scholarly Parity\, and the Possibil
 ities of Field Schools in Southeast Asia
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/inheritance-unsettled-land-s
 cholarly-parity-and-the-possibilities-of-field-schools-in-southeast-asia
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