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Record Nr.

UNINA9910765441703321

Autore

Kauanui J. Kēhaulani <1968->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4780-9403-6

0-8223-7196-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 pages)

Disciplina

996.9/04

Soggetti

Sovereignty

Nationalism - Hawaii

Hawaii Politics and government 1959-

Hawaii History Autonomy and independence movements

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 and abbreviations used in the text.

Sommario/riassunto

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.