![]() The essays, stories, artworks, maps, and tour itineraries in Detours create decolonial narratives in ways that will forever change how readers think about and move throughout Hawai‘i. In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawai‘i as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawai‘i’s culture and complex history. Vernadette Gonzalez Professor of American Studies and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mnoa & Dr. Highlighting the native Hawaiians’ resistance during that five-year span, Coffman shows why occupying Hawaiʻi was crucial to American imperial ambitions.Ī Nation Rising, edited by Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika′ala Wright, chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, raising issues that resonate far beyond the Hawaiian archipelago such as Indigenous cultural revitalization, environmental justice, and demilitarization.Īre you planning a trip to Hawai‘i? If you’re interested in learning more about how to practice forms of socially conscious tourism during your visit, we recommend checking out our forthcoming book, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i, edited by Hokulani K. Curating Detours: a Decolonial Guide to Hawaii DATE Wednesday DecemTIME 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM The Social Justice Institute Noted Scholars Series presents: Dr. Vernadette Gonzalez’ latest project, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i, is covered in Fodor’s. Nation Within by Tom Coffman details the complex history of the events between the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1893 and its annexation to the United States in 1898. Hawaiian history, culture, and governmental politics haunt the public sphere in Hawaii: something remains unfinished. Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily newspapers produced in the nineteenth century and early twentieth, Silva demonstrates that print media was central to social communication, political organizing, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian language and culture. Guidebooks are one of the most popular genres depicting the islands. Silva’s Aloha Betrayed provides a much-needed history of native Hawaiian resistance to American imperialism. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism.Ī powerful critique of colonial historiography, Noenoe K. democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. ![]() state, showing that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |