Invisible Currents of Power Course Beneath the Surface of Our Rivers

ABSTRACT

This triptych uses academic literature, poetry, and personal reflection to illustrate the impact of the invisible currents of power that run through society and history on three fictional individuals—a Native Hawaiian woman on the Hamakua coast of the Island of Hawai`i, a girl in a refugee camp on the Thailand-Myanmar border, and a military general in a government building in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar.

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Stewart Manley

Stewart Manley is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was raised in Hawai`i and spent a combined six years working in and around Mae Sot, Thailand and (more briefly) in Yangon, Myanmar.