Insurrectional Research in a Settler State

Ashley Lukens, PhD, and Cheryl Scarton, PhD Student and Researcher present the findings of the Hawaii Food Policy Council’s inaugural Think Tank Project. This project considers the vital role research plays in the policy process and how collaborative, community based research projects create an important pipeline between research institutions and the policy-makers impacting local food systems. Actively seeking to distribute knowledge to both the community and to policy makers, projects like the HFPC Think Tank was an attempt to leverage university research and resources to benefit local, potentially insurrectional activism that its actively restoring community-based, indigenous food systems. However that research process faced important challenges, highlighting some of the structural features of the university, and the ways in which these structures might crowd-out participatory research. As such, this paper also considers how to better shape and manage such complex processes, and utilize those deliverables that, sometimes unintentionally, emerge along the way.

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Mary Baker, (808) 956-8357, bakerm@hawaii.edu, http://politicalscience.hawaii.edu/

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