For the Sake of Forests and Gods documents the violent consequences of nonstate actors impinging on the existence of Indigenous peoples in the remote highlands of Palawan Island, the Philippines. Nimble, focused, and well-funded, religious and environmental organizations increasingly assume governmental authority over the lives and livelihoods of the Pala'wan people within their ancestral territories.

How does one ‘know’ the Caribbean? ‘Knowing’ in a (post)colonial context has historically relied on a narrow and exclusive set of ways and methods of claiming ‘legitimate’ knowledge.

Revelling in the idea that “study is what you do with other people” (Moten and Harney), this paper takes as its problematic that poetic knowledge (Césaire) and the education of feeling (Lamming) are underexamined in Caribbean climate research.

In this talk I discuss the Indonesian origins of the people of Madagascar. Scholars from various disciplines have reached seemingly contradictory conclusions about the place where these people come from.