Laurel Mei‐singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4506502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurel Mei‐singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurel |
| FAMILY NAME | Mei‐singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rethinking Asian Settler Colonialism: A Historical Perspective of Hawai'i Asians on Indigenous Lands
Asian settler colonialism" calls attention to the simultaneous denial of Kanaka 'Ōiwi dispossession and the celebration of descendants of Asian immigrants as industrious members of Hawai'i's multicultural middle class. While we acknowledge the importance of confronting settler colonialism, we argue that Asian settler colonialism reinscribes an inaccurate understanding of Hawai'i Asians today and over time. Tracing Hawai'i history from the Kingdom…
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire
Maui residents are reckoning with tourism in the aftermath of the 2023 fires. Drawing from historical sources and popular media reports, we argue that beyond the island's strained relationship with the tourism industry, residents are contending with the slow emergency of plantation disaster capitalism. We draw from Naomi Klein and Kapua'ala Sproat's (2023) concept of plantation disaster capitalism which identifies the plantation industry's domina…
A broken heart and fear of the bulldozer: Organized abandonment and living with abandon in Hawai'i
Hawai'i faces a crisis of homelessness due to the high cost of housing across the islands. Many without formal housing establish interdependent communities unsanctioned by property regimes and refer to themselves as "houseless" because intimate relations with place and expansive practices of care provide an adequate home. Attending to the experiences of Hawai'i's houseless, I unpack the meanings and practices of organized abandonment while propos…
Accompaniment Through Carceral Geographies: Abolitionist Research Partnerships with Indigenous Communities
This article approaches “ea”—a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) concept meaning life, breath, and sovereignty—as a vital mode of abolition ecologies, and proposes accompaniment as a methodology for mutual collaboration toward this endeavour. Research draws from ethnographic fieldwork on the Wai‘anae Coast of O‘ahu in Hawai‘i, a predominantly Native Hawaiian community, and reflects upon the author’s positionality on Wai‘anae’s insider–outsider borde…
Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto, Jacked Up and Unjust: Pacific Islander Teens Confront Violent Legacies
Carceral Conservationism: Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka'ena Point, Hawai'i
Carceral Conservationism:Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka'ena Point, Hawai'i Laurel Mei-Singh (bio) "Don't turn your back to the ocean," Kaula Crawford-Kapanui warned me on a morning visit to Ka'ena in March 2014 as we climbed down wet rocks between sets of bone-breaking waves to gather hā'uke'uke, brilliant purple, sun-shaped shells thick with salty meat. While we gathered, our friends "threw net" to catch moi, manini…
Accompaniment Through Carceral Geographies: Abolitionist Research Partnerships with Indigenous Communities
This article approaches “ea”—a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) concept meaning life, breath, and sovereignty—as a vital mode of abolition ecologies, and proposes accompaniment as a methodology for mutual collaboration toward this endeavour. Research draws from ethnographic fieldwork on the Wai‘anae Coast of O‘ahu in Hawai‘i, a predominantly Native Hawaiian community, and reflects upon the author’s positionality on Wai‘anae’s insider–outsider borde…
Carceral Conservationism: Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka'ena Point, Hawai'i
Carceral Conservationism:Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka'ena Point, Hawai'i Laurel Mei-Singh (bio) "Don't turn your back to the ocean," Kaula Crawford-Kapanui warned me on a morning visit to Ka'ena in March 2014 as we climbed down wet rocks between sets of bone-breaking waves to gather hā'uke'uke, brilliant purple, sun-shaped shells thick with salty meat. While we gathered, our friends "threw net" to catch moi, manini…
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire
Maui residents are reckoning with tourism in the aftermath of the 2023 fires. Drawing from historical sources and popular media reports, we argue that beyond the island's strained relationship with the tourism industry, residents are contending with the slow emergency of plantation disaster capitalism. We draw from Naomi Klein and Kapua'ala Sproat's (2023) concept of plantation disaster capitalism which identifies the plantation industry's domina…
A broken heart and fear of the bulldozer: Organized abandonment and living with abandon in Hawai'i
Hawai'i faces a crisis of homelessness due to the high cost of housing across the islands. Many without formal housing establish interdependent communities unsanctioned by property regimes and refer to themselves as "houseless" because intimate relations with place and expansive practices of care provide an adequate home. Attending to the experiences of Hawai'i's houseless, I unpack the meanings and practices of organized abandonment while propos…
Rethinking Asian Settler Colonialism: A Historical Perspective of Hawai'i Asians on Indigenous Lands
Asian settler colonialism" calls attention to the simultaneous denial of Kanaka 'Ōiwi dispossession and the celebration of descendants of Asian immigrants as industrious members of Hawai'i's multicultural middle class. While we acknowledge the importance of confronting settler colonialism, we argue that Asian settler colonialism reinscribes an inaccurate understanding of Hawai'i Asians today and over time. Tracing Hawai'i history from the Kingdom…
Carceral Conservationism: Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka'ena Point, Hawai'i
Carceral Conservationism:Contested Landscapes and Technologies of Dispossession at Ka'ena Point, Hawai'i Laurel Mei-Singh (bio) "Don't turn your back to the ocean," Kaula Crawford-Kapanui warned me on a morning visit to Ka'ena in March 2014 as we climbed down wet rocks between sets of bone-breaking waves to gather hā'uke'uke, brilliant purple, sun-shaped shells thick with salty meat. While we gathered, our friends "threw net" to catch moi, manini…
Katherine Irwin and Karen Umemoto, Jacked Up and Unjust: Pacific Islander Teens Confront Violent Legacies
Accompaniment Through Carceral Geographies: Abolitionist Research Partnerships with Indigenous Communities
This article approaches “ea”—a Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) concept meaning life, breath, and sovereignty—as a vital mode of abolition ecologies, and proposes accompaniment as a methodology for mutual collaboration toward this endeavour. Research draws from ethnographic fieldwork on the Wai‘anae Coast of O‘ahu in Hawai‘i, a predominantly Native Hawaiian community, and reflects upon the author’s positionality on Wai‘anae’s insider–outsider borde…
A broken heart and fear of the bulldozer: Organized abandonment and living with abandon in Hawai'i
Hawai'i faces a crisis of homelessness due to the high cost of housing across the islands. Many without formal housing establish interdependent communities unsanctioned by property regimes and refer to themselves as "houseless" because intimate relations with place and expansive practices of care provide an adequate home. Attending to the experiences of Hawai'i's houseless, I unpack the meanings and practices of organized abandonment while propos…
Rethinking Asian Settler Colonialism: A Historical Perspective of Hawai'i Asians on Indigenous Lands
Asian settler colonialism" calls attention to the simultaneous denial of Kanaka 'Ōiwi dispossession and the celebration of descendants of Asian immigrants as industrious members of Hawai'i's multicultural middle class. While we acknowledge the importance of confronting settler colonialism, we argue that Asian settler colonialism reinscribes an inaccurate understanding of Hawai'i Asians today and over time. Tracing Hawai'i history from the Kingdom…
Plantation Disaster Capitalism in Maui: Reckoning with Tourism after the Fire
Maui residents are reckoning with tourism in the aftermath of the 2023 fires. Drawing from historical sources and popular media reports, we argue that beyond the island's strained relationship with the tourism industry, residents are contending with the slow emergency of plantation disaster capitalism. We draw from Naomi Klein and Kapua'ala Sproat's (2023) concept of plantation disaster capitalism which identifies the plantation industry's domina…
Political science (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)