Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty : land, sex, and the colonial politics of state nationalism / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui.
| Author/creator | Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Durham : Duke University Press, [2018] |
| Copyright Date | ©2018 |
| Description | xvii, 275 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-262) and index. |
| Language | Text in English. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty ; Durham : Duke University Press, 2018 9780822371960 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2018010545 |
| ISBN | 9780822370499 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0822370492 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 9780822370758 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 0822370751 paperback ; alkaline paper |
| ISBN | ebook |
| ISBN | ebook |