Not All Hungers Are the Same
On the Papuan plantation frontier, industrial oil palm concessions are creating new ways of thinking about hunger: as a force that haunts, as a form of shame, as a source of anger.
Sophie Chao
Sophie Chao is a senior lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sydney. She is the author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (2022) and Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger (2025) and co-editor of The Promise of Multispecies Justice (2022) and Worlds Beyond Bios: The Life of Matter and the Matter of Life (2026), all published by Duke University Press. Chao is of Sino-French heritage and lives on unceded Gadigal lands in Sydney, Australia. For more information, please visit www.morethanhumanworlds.com.