Jennifer Eve Day works on issues of dispossession and eviction, economic development, and urbanization across Asia and the Pacific, and she is expert in methods ranging from econometrics to qualitative storytelling. Jennie holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a National Geographic Explorer and the Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery project titled, "Communities, Kava, Court Orders: The Ways of Possessing the Pacific City." She has authored dozens of research articles on topics ranging from customary land to commuter boats. She works closely with grass-roots community movements in Port Vila, Vanuatu. She seeks to understand the triggers for evictions, and grass roots resistance to eviction. She is also CI on an associated project funded by the University of Melbourne Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, which examines the experience of Chinese people living in the Pacific who find themselves parties to eviction cases. Jennie is an engaged scholar, currently working with the Government of Vanuatu on a flagship affordable housing program– the first affordable-housing project in Vanuatu.

Eviction, Dispossession, Possession

Epistemology

Australia (area)
Melanesia

Anticipatory

Bislama