Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968-

Publication

• Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xvii, 275 pages; 24 cm

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

Subject

• Since 1959
• Sovereignty
• Nationalism > Hawaii
• Autonomy and independence movements
• Nationalism
• Politics and government
• Hawaii > Politics and government > 1959-
• Hawaii > History > Autonomy and independence movements
• Hawaii

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-10087

ISBN

• 9780822370499
• 0822370492
• 9780822370758
• 0822370751

LCCN

2018010545

OCLC

1007581702

Author

Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- author.

Title

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

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1959

Other Form:

Online version: Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty ; Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9780822371960 (DLC) 2018014706

Research Call Number

JFE 18-10087