ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines a role play in which students take part in a meeting in a Solomon Islands village, where the meeting participants discuss whether to allow an international logging company to log their customary lands. The role play highlights how globally interconnected commodity chains intersect with cultural power dynamics, in this case, gendered power dynamics in combination with customary land tenure rules. After a warm-up, each student receives instructions on whether they are for or against the logging application and how they are allowed to behave in the meeting (based on a hierarchy of speaking underpinned by the intersection of gender, kinship, and rights to the land in question). However not all is revealed to the students and they have to figure it out during the debrief, to emphasise the taken-for-granted impact of identities, especially such as gender, on social relations and power.
