Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty

Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism

J. Kehaulani Kauanui (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2018
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-7049-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Abbreviations 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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.09.2018
Zusatzinfo	6 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8223-7049-2 / 0822370492
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-7049-9 / 9780822370499
Zustand	Neuware