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Cooling the Tropics
Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi—all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as “essential” for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawaiʻi to show how the interlinked concepts of freshness and refreshment mark colonial relationships to the tropics. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawaiʻi’s food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can—and must—be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawaiʻi and beyond.
Author / Editor information
Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart is Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University and editor of The Foodways of Hawaiʻi: Past and Present.
Reviews
"Cooling the Tropics offers a compelling model for future research focused on the simultaneously sensorial, biopolitical, and ecological implications of colonialism’s thermal infrastructures."
-- Hsuan L. Hsu The Senses and Society
"Fascinating and thoughtful. . . . Recommended. General readers and advanced undergraduates through faculty."
-- F. Ng Choice
“Cooling the Tropics is well worth reading. … With many revealing and fascinating examples, [Hobart] tells an engaging story of the American colonisation of Hawaii that is open, unfixed and challengeable.”
-- Helene Brembeck Review of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Studies
"Contributing to a rich, contemporary conversation of critical ruminations on materiality, the elements, and questions of race and indigeneity, Cooling the Tropics pushes readers to think about how indigeneity is shaped in colonial discourses. … This well researched book will fascinate and keep readers on the hook."
-- Jen Rose Smith Society and Space
"Throughout the book, Hobart’s eloquent, witty, yet to-the point writing style is outstanding. . . . By bringing together analyses of settler colonialism, sensorial experiences, and food, the author creates evocative word combinations and points to seemingly mundane phenomena—such as to melting ice toward the end of the book—that form new concepts."
-- Mascha Gugganig Gastronomica
-- Mascha Gugganig Gastronomica
"A work like Hobart’s Cooling the Tropics is a much-needed investigation into how ice served as a necessary conduit for American influence to grow and expand within the Hawaiian
Islands. . . . Hobart’s work is a chilling reminder that despite encroaching American influence, the tropics and, by extension, Native Hawaiian bodies could not be packed, moulded, or served alongside icy commodities. Instead, Kanaka Maoli persevered in the face of shifting power dynamics by remaining cool and collected, and ultimately reaffirmed their presence in the islands."
-- Kale Kanaeholo Journal of Pacific History
Islands. . . . Hobart’s work is a chilling reminder that despite encroaching American influence, the tropics and, by extension, Native Hawaiian bodies could not be packed, moulded, or served alongside icy commodities. Instead, Kanaka Maoli persevered in the face of shifting power dynamics by remaining cool and collected, and ultimately reaffirmed their presence in the islands."
-- Kale Kanaeholo Journal of Pacific History
"With Cooling the Tropics, Hobart has contested these depictions and convincingly opened a path for future studies of colonialism, Indigeneity, and foodways in the Pacific. For these reasons, scholars across disciplines and fields will find Hobart’s careful study . . . refreshing."
-- Issay Matsumoto Journal of American Ethnic History
-- Issay Matsumoto Journal of American Ethnic History
"Until reading this book, I had not fully grasped the impacts of thermal dependency on our lives and futures. . . . After reading this book I now realize that my thinking about Indigenous resurgence and futurity needs to also attend to issues of temperature control, refrigeration, and ice."
-- Hokulani K. Aikau Native American and Indigenous Studies
-- Hokulani K. Aikau Native American and Indigenous Studies
"Cooling the Tropics has a substantial bibliography and notes and will fit beautifully into an undergraduate or graduate course in ethnography, anthropology, sociology, Hawaiian Studies, food and culture courses, and political science. Hobart weaves a narrative that leads towards another way to consider the history and culture of the Kānaka Maoli of Hawai‘i."
-- Kristin McAndrews Hawaiian Journal of History
-- Kristin McAndrews Hawaiian Journal of History
"Cooling the Tropics is an engaging text that will make generative reading for anyone interested in the relationship between foodways and colonial history but may hold specific interest for those interested in technological development and thermal media."
-- Briand Gentry Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
-- Briand Gentry Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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NOTE ON‘ŌLELO HAWAI‘I USAGE
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION: FEELING COLD IN HAWAI‘I
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1 A PREHISTORY OF THE ARTIFICIAL COLD IN HAWAI‘I
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2 VICE, VIRTUE, AND FROZEN NECESSITIES IN THE SOVEREIGN CITY
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3 MAKING ICE LOCAL: TECHNOLOGY, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND COLD POWER IN THE KALĀKAUA ERA
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4 COLD AND SWEET: THE TASTE OF TERRITORIAL OCCUPATION
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5 LOCAL COLOR, RAINBOW AESTHETICS, AND THE RACIAL POLITICS OF HAWAIIAN SHAVE ICE
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CONCLUSION: THERMAL SOVEREIGNTIES
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NOTES
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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eBook published on:
January 18, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781478023821
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Keywords for this book
2023 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association; First Book Award; NAISA Book Awards
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
