Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty : land, sex, and the colonial politics of state nationalism / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism.

History.

Autonomy and independence movements.

Hawaii--Politics and government--1959-.

Hawaii.

Politics and government.

Hawaii--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Sovereignty.

Nationalism--Hawaii.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 275 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kēhaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law. She theorizes paradoxes in the laws themselves and in nationalist assertions of Hawaiian Kingdom restoration and demands for U.S. deoccupation, which echo colonialist models of governance. Kauanui argues that Hawaiian elites' approaches to reforming and regulating land, gender, and sexuality in the early nineteenth century that paved the way for sovereign recognition of the kingdom complicate contemporary nationalist activism today, which too often includes disavowing the indigeneity of the Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) people. Problematizing the ways the positing of the Hawaiian Kingdom's continued existence has been accompanied by a denial of U.S. settler colonialism, Kauanui considers possibilities for a decolonial approach to Hawaiian sovereignty that would address the privatization and capitalist development of land and the ongoing legacy of the imposition of heteropatriarchal modes of social relations." -- Publisher's description

Contents:

Introduction: contradictory sovereignty

Contested indigeneity: between kingdom and "tribe"

Properties of land: that which feeds

Gender, marriage, and coverture: a new proprietary relationship

"Savage" sexualities

Conclusion: decolonial challenges to the legacies of occupation and settler colonialism

Glossary of Hawaiian words and phrases.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty ;

ISBN:

9780822370499

0822370492

9780822370758

0822370751

OCLC:

1007581702