Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

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Detours

A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Edited by: Hokulani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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Detours

About this book

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, complex history, and the effects of colonialism.

Author / Editor information

Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and author of Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines, also published by Duke University Press.

Hōkūlani K. Aikau is Professor of Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and author of A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai‘i.

Reviews

“This brilliant and beautiful collection—which features interviews, personal essays, collaborative pieces with community elders, family histories, and more—is a rich ethical project that offers so much for so many. Mahalo!”

-- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism

“[Detours] seeks to flip travel writing's static script, telling tourists that they are not entitled to all things Hawaiian because the Hawai‘i of their imagination is obliterating the Hawai‘i of Kānaka Maoli. . . . [Aikau and Gonzalez are] hoping to reach those who intend to become better guests, even if they're in the minority.”

-- Bani Amor Fodor’s Travel

"The stories, art and ideas collected in Detours are a guide to the contributors’ connections to Hawaii. As a collective, the stories demonstrate how readers can learn about Hawaii beyond the veneer of tourism, and approach the island-state in a way that honors and reduces harm to the local cultures and communities."

-- Crystal Paul Seattle Times

"This important book challenges readers to think critically about the violence of colonialism that is expressed through tourism. . . . Detours is valuable not only to those studying Hawaiʻi, but more broadly to scholars of indigenous studies and anyone interested in the colonial legacies of tourism. Highly recommended. All levels."

-- L. Kessler Choice

"If you know a particularly intuitive traveler, someone who wants to find the hidden histories of a place, the guidebook Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i . . . will give them perfect examples of ways to reapproach tourism and travel—in other words, to decolonize their experience."

-- Kit Dillon Wirecutter

"By collecting the stories of Kanaka, this guide educates its readers with rich, wise primary sources. It effectively amplifies the voices of those most knowledgeable and does not shy away from harsh facts and truths that are often glossed over. . . . I highly recommend this guide to everyone who has or plans to have contact with Hawai’i. What you learn from reading should impact the way you approach your visit and bring to light new considerations to uphold a pono (just, fitting) experience."

-- Erica Cheung International Examiner

“Detours is more than a book. In fact, it may only incidentally be a book. Rather, this collection feels like an extension of Kanaka innovation that reinvents intergenerational knowledge transmission and documentation.”

-- Natchee Blu Barnd American Indian Culture and Research Journal

“After reading this book, you cannot journey to Hawai’i without a very different way of knowing this place and its people.... Detours sets an important milestone and has made an invaluable contribution to decolonizing tourism.”

-- Freya Higgins-Desbiolles Journal of Sustainable Tourism

"A fascinating collection, an attempt to use the framework of the travel industry to destabilize the travel industry . . . scraping at the fantasy version of this place to find what’s been buried."

-- Chris Colin Afar

“As a text that brings together so many voices, Detours is indispensable to scholars in Indigenous studies and Pacific studies, as well as activists and organizers at the intersections of decolonization and demilitarization.... Detours is a critical disruption to business as usual.”

-- Gregory Pomaikai Gushiken Native American and Indigenous Studies

“With its eclectic collection of stories and histories, Detours reroutes the tourist gaze and offers travelers, scholars, and island residents richly diverse perspectives on Hawai’i.”

-- Kirsten Møllegaard Journal of American Culture

"It’s rare to find such an honest, deeply informative overview of a destination; the Detours guide to Hawaii should be required reading for anyone planning to visit the islands, and the same will surely be true of future Detours issues about other spots."

-- Conde Nast Traveler

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Hōkūlani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART I. Wahi Pana / Storied Places
Only Twenty Ahupuaʻa Away Kamanamaikalani Beamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
Hā-mākua Haley Kailiehu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	26
He Mo‘olelo no Pa‘auilo: Restor(y)ing ‘Āina in a Quiet, Old Plantation Town in Hāmākua Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
Ponoiwi Kapulani Landgraf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
Wehe aʻela ka ʻĪao ma Haleakalā Katrina-Ann R. Kapāʻanaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
(Locals Will) Remove All Valuables from Your Vehicle: The Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens and the Damming of the Waters Dean Itsuji Saranillio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	50
Finding Direction: Google Mapping the Sacred, Mo‘olelo Mapping Wahi Pana in Five Poems Brandy Nālani McDougall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
Princess Kaʻiulani Haunts Empire in Waikīkī Stephanie Nohelani Teves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Sources of Sustainment: Fort Kamehameha and ‘Āhua Point S. Joe Estores and Ty P. Kāwika Tengan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
Fantasy Island: From Pineapple Plantation to Tourist Plantation on Lānaʻi Laura E. Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
Anini Lianne Marie Leda Charlie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	94
Kahale‘ala, Halele‘a: Fragrant, Joyful Home, a Visit to Anini, Kaua‘i Mehana Blaich Vaughan, William Kinney, Jessica Kauʻi Fu, Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, Francesca Koethe, Cheryl Geslani, Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, Nicholas Kawela Farrant, Emily Cadiz and Jordan Muratsuchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	96
Nā Pana Kaulana o Keaukaha: The Storied Places of Keaukaha Halena Kapuni-Reynolds and Wendy Mapuana Waipā Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
PART II. Hana Lima / Decolonial Projects and Representations
Ke Kilohana Nanea Lum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
Aloha Is Deoccupied Love Noʻu Revilla and Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Sovereign Spaces: Creating Decolonial Zones through Hula and Mele Maya L. Kawailanaokeawaiki Saffery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
Settler Colonial Postcards Karen K. Kosasa and Stan Tomita Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	147
An Island Negotiating a Pathway for Responsible Tourism Malia Akutagawa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
Ka Hale Hō‘ike‘ike a Pihopa: A Bishop Museum Love Story Noelle M. K. Y. Kahanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	164
Reclaiming the ʻIli of Haukulu and ʻAihulama Joy Lehuanani Enomoto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Keauhou Resort: Rethinking Highest and Best Use Gregory Chun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
‘A‘ole Is Our Refusal David Uahikeaikalei‘ohu Maile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
“Where Are Your Sacred Temples?” Notes on the Struggle for Mauna a Wākea Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
Kūkulu Hale in Hāna, East Maui: Reviving Traditional Hawaiian House and Heaiu Building P. Kalawaiʻa Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Pū‘olo Pa‘akai: A Bundle of Salt from Pūʻolo, Hanapēpē, Kauaʻi Malia Nobrega-Olivera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	220
“Welcome to the Future”: Restoring Keawanui Fishpond Kalaniua Ritte, Hanohano Naehu, Noelani Goodyear-Ka ʻōpua and Julie Warech Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	230
PART III. Huaka‘i/Tours for Transformation
The Hawaiʻi DeTour Project: Demilitarizing Sites and Sights on Oʻahu Kyle Kajihiro and Terrilee Kekoʻolani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	246
Kanaloa Kahoʻolawe: He Wahi Akua/ A Sacred Place Davianna Pōmaikaʻi McGregor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Fences and Fishing Nets: Conflicting Visions of Stewardship for Ka‘ena and Mākua Laurel Mei-Singh and Summer Kaimalia Mullins-Ibrahim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Beneath the Touristic Sheen of Waikīkī Ellen-Rae Cachola Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
Sakada N. Trisha Lagaso Goldberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	293
A Downtown Honolulu and Capitol District Decolonial Tour Craig Howes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	300
Unearthing ‘Auwai and Urban Histories in Kakaʻako Tina Grandinetti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
Displaced Kaka‘ako Adele Balderston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	326
What’s under the Pavement in My Neighborhood, Pūowaina Noenoe K. Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	328
Mapping Wonder in Lualualei on the Huakaʻi Kākoʻo no Waiʻanae Environmental Justice Bus Tour Candace Fujikane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	340
PART IV. Hawai‘i beyond the Big Eight / New Mappings
Where Is Hawaiʻi? Hawaiian Diaspora and Kuleana David A. Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	352
We Never Voyage Alone Linda H. L. Furuto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	362
Law of the Canoe: Reckoning Colonialism and Criminal Justice in the Pacific Sonny Ganaden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373
Reconnecting with Ancestral Islands: A Guide to Papahānaumokuākea (the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) Kekuewa Kikiloi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	380
Conclusion: ‘A‘ole I Pau (Not Yet Finished) Hōkūlani K. Aikau and Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Glossary of Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
Select References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417

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November 8, 2019

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9781478007203

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448

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101 color illustrations, 5 maps

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478007203

eBook ISBN: 9781478007203

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