2025 Fall LuceSEA Webinar #4 – Political Ecology in Practice: Findings from the LuceSEA Field School in Southeast Asia
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 | 3:00–4:30 PM (HST)
Registration: https://go.hawaii.edu/Uur
The final webinar of the 2025 Fall LuceSEA series features faculty and student researchers from the LuceSEA Field School, sharing insights from fieldwork conducted in Thailand and Indonesia. This session explores applied research approaches in political ecology and critical environmental studies, highlighting how ecological systems, political structures, and local communities interact in complex and often contested ways.
Drawing from firsthand field experiences, the speakers will discuss how grounded, context-sensitive research contributes to a deeper understanding of environmental challenges and supports more equitable and sustainable approaches to environmental knowledge production.
Moderator
Dr. Mary Mostafanezhad
Professor & Graduate Chair, Department of Geography and Environment, UH Mānoa
Speakers
- Dr. Micah Fisher — Assistant Professor, Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, UH Mānoa
- Xiaoyun Neo — MA Student, Geography, UH Mānoa
- Areerat Worawongwasu — Ph.D. Student, American Studies, UH Mānoa
- Abdurrahman Abdullah, MA — Researcher, Forest and Society Research Group, Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia
- Irfan Saputra — MA Student, Forestry, Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia
- Aswin Baharuddin — Ph.D. Student, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Hosted by the UH Center for Southeast Asian Studies with support from the Henry Luce Foundation.