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Pacific Circle Lecture | Sophie Chao: Time Has Come to a Stop

On 30 March 2023, The Pacific Circle hosted a lecture by Dr Sophie Chao (University of Sydney) entitled 'Time Has Come to a Stop: Temporalities of Loss and Resistance on the West Papuan Plantation Frontier'. Drawing on research that forms part of her award winning book In The Shadow of the Palms: More Than Human Becomings in West Papua, Dr Chao discussed the conversion of over one million hectares of forest in West Papua to monocrop oil palm plantations without the free, prior, or informed consent of Indigenous Marind communities. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and prior investigative research conducted on the Papuan oil palm frontier, Dr Chao explores how Marind communities sense and make sense of the temporal transformations wrought by agroindustrial expansion, as these manifest within and across species lines and as these are shaped by Indigenous modes of historicity. In doing so, the lecture invites attention to how disempowered communities creatively harness hopelessness to reclaim the very terms of their existence, amidst and against attritive histories of ontological occupation, intergenerational injustice, and multispecies violence. The Pacific Circle Lecture is a regular online lecture series hosted by The Pacific Circle, an association dedicated to supporting and promoting research in the history of knowledge in the Asia-Pacific region, broadly construed. The association takes knowledge to encompass a cross-cultural diversity of beliefs about the workings of the universe and the command of a myriad of techniques applied to investigations and manipulations of worldly phenomena. Lectures are open to all and are advertised on the Circle's website (https://thepacificcircle.com/)and via its fortnightly newsletter. Dr Sophie Chao is Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney. Her research investigates the intersections of Indigeneity, ecology, capitalism, health, and justice in the Pacific. Chao is author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua and co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice. She previously worked for the human rights organisation Forest Peoples Programme, supporting the rights of forest-dwelling Indigenous peoples to their lands, resources, and livelihoods. Chao is of Sino-French heritage and lives and works on unceded Gadigal lands. Links: The Pacific Circle: https://thepacificcircle.com/ Dr Sophie Chao: https://www.morethanhumanworlds.com/ In the Shadow of the Palms: https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-shadow-o...