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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822370492

ISBN-139780822370499

eBay Product ID (ePID)26038743280

Product Key Features

Number of Pages296 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameParadoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty : Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism

Publication Year2018

SubjectUnited States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), History & Theory, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, American Government / State, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism

TypeTextbook

AuthorJ. Kehaulani Kauanui

Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, History

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight20 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-010545

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsIn this deeply engaging book, J. Kehaulani Kauanui unpacks paradoxes inherent in past and contemporary assertions of Hawaiian sovereignty. . . . While Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is set in Hawai'i, it will prove useful for anyone interested in the global politics of Indigeneity and settler colonialism--in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Japan, the Pacific Islands, and Israel/Palestine., J. Kehaulani Kauanui makes a brilliant case for the close historical analysis of political discourse and the grounding of speculative futures in an understanding of the past. Kauanui . . . layers narratives of occupation and resistance, historiographical debate, political critique, and autoethnographical reflections in this powerful text., Kauanui's study constitutes a significant addition to the existing anthropological and historical scholarship that engages with events taking place in the nineteenth century in the islands, and scholarship linked to the contepmorary sovereignty movement, complementing the existing scholarship in a nuanced and commanding way. There is no doubt that this study will be of interest to scholars in the field, and its varied insights will constitute an enduring gift to the decolonization movement and its undertaking, both in the islands and more broadly amongst Indigenous communities worldwide., Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is a much-needed, incisive, yet easily accessible addition to conversations in academia and activism alike. Kauanui's work calls on Kanaka 'Oiwi to face the settler-colonial complexities and paradoxes embedded within our histories and our current political movements while also providing us with guidance toward reimagined futurities that are truly decolonized and free from the heteropatriarchal settler-colonial structures and mindsets., Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is yet another highly significant and extremely well-researched and theoretically contextualized contribution to the rapidly growing body of literature by native Hawaiian scholars on their history, culture, and political struggles., Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty is a much-needed, incisive, yet easily accessible addition to conversations in academia and activism alike. Kauanui's work calls on Kanaka 'oiwi to face the settler-colonial complexities and paradoxes embedded within our histories and our current political movements while also providing us with guidance toward reimagined futurities that are truly decolonized and free from the heteropatriarchal settler-colonial structures and mindsets., Kauanui draws on feminist and queer theory, and Foucault's notions of biopolitics and biopower, to provide a fine-grained masterpiece problematizing state-centric notions of sovereignty., Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty offers a careful delineation of the centrality of heteropatriarchy to both imperial-colonial and nation-state structures. Using the concepts of biopower and biopolitics, J. Kehaulani Kauanui powerfully recounts the history of the (incomplete) subjugation of women and suppression of native sexual practices as inherent parts of the establishment of the Hawaiian monarchy, revealing the paradox of ali'i having to eradicate indigenous ways of life in order to gain recognition of Hawaiian sovereignty. She shows how this paradox continues today, as Christian evangelical ideology undergirds the discourse of restoring the Hawaiian Kingdom., [Kauanu] is to be commended for her diligence in both scholarship and activism. The book is a fine example of scholarship demonstrating the intersectionality of nationality, ethnicity, and gender in a meaningful and robust manner.

Grade FromCollege Sophomore

IllustratedYes

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal996.904

Table Of ContentAbbreviations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Contradictory Sovereignty 1 1. Contested Indigeneity: Between Kingdom and "Tribe" 43 2. Properties of Land: That Which Feeds 76 3. Gender, Marriage, and Coverture: A New Proprietary Relationship 113 4. "Savage: Sexualities 153 Conclusion. Decolonial Challenges to the Legacies of Occupation and Settler Colonialism 194 Notes 203 Glossary of Hawaiian Words and Phrases 235 Bibliography 237 Index 263

SynopsisJ. Kehaulani Kauanui examines contradictions of indigeneity and self-determination in U.S. domestic policy and international law, showing how Hawaiian elites' approaches to reforming land, gender, and sexual regulation in the early nineteenth century that paved the way for sovereign recognition of the kingdom complicate contemporary nationalist activism, which too often includes disavowing the indigeneity of indigenous Hawaiians., In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. Kehaulani 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., In Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty J. K?haulani 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.

LC Classification NumberDU627.8.K38 2018