Candace Fujikane is Professor of English at the University of Hawaiʻi. She co-edited with Jonathan Okamura Asian Settler Colonialism: From Local Governance to the Habits of Everday Life in Hawaiʻi (UHP, 2008). She recently published, Mapping Abundance for a Planetary Future: Kanaka Maoli and Critical Settler Cartographies in Hawaiʻi (Duke UP, 2021). 

Dr. Fujikane's writing and research engages synchronic sets of practices: those that challenge the operations of the US occupying/settler state, and those that enact a future beyond it. Praxis is a critical part of her research, and she is actively involved in land struggles against urban and industrial development of Kanaka 'Ōiwi sacred and storied places in Lualualei Valley, Waiāhole, Kalihi and Muana Kea, as well as in other places where people live their vision of an independent and sustainable Hawai'i.