The essays, stories, artworks, maps, and tour itineraries in Detours create decolonial narratives in ways that will forever change how readers think about and move throughout Hawai‘i. In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawai‘i as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawai‘i’s culture and complex history. Aikau (Contributor) Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez (Contributor) Description. Highlighting the native Hawaiians’ resistance during that five-year span, Coffman shows why occupying Hawaiʻi was crucial to American imperial ambitions.Ī Nation Rising, edited by Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika′ala Wright, chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, raising issues that resonate far beyond the Hawaiian archipelago such as Indigenous cultural revitalization, environmental justice, and demilitarization.Īre you planning a trip to Hawai‘i? If you’re interested in learning more about how to practice forms of socially conscious tourism during your visit, we recommend checking out our forthcoming book, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i, edited by Hokulani K. Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaii (Detours) Hokulani K. ![]() around the farm while Andre Perez, the Hanekehau guide, recounts the story of constructing the loi. Nation Within by Tom Coffman details the complex history of the events between the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1893 and its annexation to the United States in 1898. DeTours: Mapping Decolonial Genealogies in Hawaii. Drawing on Hawaiian-language texts, primarily newspapers produced in the nineteenth century and early twentieth, Silva demonstrates that print media was central to social communication, political organizing, and the perpetuation of Hawaiian language and culture. In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawaii as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawais culture and complex history. Silva’s Aloha Betrayed provides a much-needed history of native Hawaiian resistance to American imperialism. nation whose economy was unsustainable without enacting a more aggressive policy of imperialism.Ī powerful critique of colonial historiography, Noenoe K. ![]() ![]() democracy nor a strong nation swallowing a weak and feeble island nation, but the result of a U.S. state, showing that statehood was neither the expansion of U.S. In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai‘i’s admission as a U.S.
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