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 is a professor of anthropology and director of 丁香园AV鈥檚 David Lam Centre for Asian Studies. His research has mainly focused on global environmentalism and debates about Indigenous rights in Asia.

During his fellowship, Hathaway will explore the rise of Indigenous networks in the Pacific Rim, which followed a series of all-Indigenous delegations travelling to China from Japan and from Canada in the 1970s. Indigenous groups returned to their home countries inspired to challenge state authorities, crafting powerful texts that awakened a generation to the ongoing colonial structures of society.

Visiting China helped delegates to reimagine themselves as global subjects who were connected to other Indigenous people, as part of what was called the Fourth World. 鈥淚t was one of the first instances of all these people starting to see themselves not just as members of an individual group suffering from a particular colonial state, but as a global community of Indigenous people鈥� says Hathaway, 鈥渁nd that changed everything.鈥�

He hopes  will draw attention to how Indigenous-led, grassroots efforts shaped the history of the Indigenous movement, both in B.C. and around the world.

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