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.

, University of Hawai'i, Author.

Contributor:

University of Hawai'i, Funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Nationalism--Hawaii.

Nationalism.

Hawaii--Politics and government--1959-.

Hawaii.

Hawaii--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is Professor of American Studies and Anthropology at Wesleyan University, author of Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, also published by Duke University Press, and editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders.

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.

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 and abbreviations used in the text.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781478094036

1478094036

9780822371960

0822371960

OCLC:

1048190917