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Author Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968- author.

Title Paradoxes of Hawaiian sovereignty : land, sex, and the colonial politics of state nationalism / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Sovereignty.
Nationalism -- Hawaii
sovereignty.
HISTORY -- Oceania.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Autonomy and independence movements
Nationalism
Politics and government
Sovereignty
SUBJECT Hawaii -- Politics and government -- 1959- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85059361
Hawaii -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Subject Hawaii
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018014706
ISBN 9780822371960
0822371960