UHM LuceSEA Transitions: Environment, Society and Change Project
The University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UHM) LuceSEA Transitions: Environment, Society, and Change project focuses on how socio-economic and political shifts are transforming Southeast Asia (SEA) societies in a time of accelerated climate and environmental change.
Our project centers on a research cluster of UHM scholars who study SEA agrarian transitions: the transformation from a rural agrarian society to one that is predominantly urbanized, industrialized, and market-based. Our UHM community of researchers have collaborated with SEA colleagues for decades to document how the interpenetration of rural and urban areas and the diversification of household economies have created places of mobility in which households shift between agricultural and industrial pursuits.
Educating generations of SEA graduate students has created enduring links to in-country colleagues who are now professionals; our project strengthens and expands these relationships, towards long-term sustained intellectual collaboration and engagement. Our project has two primary goals:
(1) build research parity in studying agrarian transitions by bringing more SEA-based colleagues into the research process; and
(2) produce new and accessible scholarly research and curricula on different dimensions of SEA agrarian transitions.
