Ho'oulu 'Aina: Embodied Aloha 'Aina Enacting Indigenous Futurities.
Ho'oulu 'Aina: Embodied Aloha 'Aina Enacting Indigenous Futurities.
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2018-05
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Baker, Mary L.
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In this dissertation I examine the relationship between Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) values
and practice and the politics of decolonization. The question that drives my work is: How do we
as Kanaka ʻŌiwi step away from the toxic culture of neoliberal capitalism and the trauma of
colonialism, structures that work to eliminate the kinship relationships between my people and
the ʻāina (that which feeds us) that have developed over millennia? This work is situated within a
broader body of scholarship on resurgent practices of Indigenous peoples. This dissertation
argues that through resurgent practices Indigenous ideologies develop and become the
springboard for enacting Indigenous futurities. Indigenous ideologies emerge out of practice that
is anchored in place and a worldview that acknowledges our kinship relationship with ʻāina.
These relationships have developed across generations of being of and on the land and are
shaped and constrained by ancestral flows of knowledge that are anchored to specific places.
Indigenous ideologies cannot be distilled into an abstract set of theoretical principles designed to
contain all situations in all places but are instead expressions of specific values and relationships
based in specific material environments. Through participant observation, semi-structured
interviews and discourse analysis I present a portrait of Hoʻoulu ʻĀina, a Kanaka ʻŌiwi
community that is mapping ancestral knowledge and values onto future generations through
rigorous attention to and re-thinking of structures of education and health within an urban
community in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. This community is a living example of the way practice
steeped in Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) ideology contributes to a radical futurity. This
radical futurity is building networks of affinity with non-Indigenous people working towards
transformation of the global social order.
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