Full Description
Many people first encounter Hawai'i through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, lu'aus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawai'i is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military occupation, tourism, food insecurity, high costs of living, and climate change. 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 and complex history. The essays, stories, artworks, maps, and tour itineraries in Detours create decolonial narratives in ways that will forever change how readers think about and move throughout Hawai'i.
Contributors. Hōkūlani K. Aikau, Malia Akutagawa, Adele Balderston, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Ellen-Rae Cachola, Emily Cadiz, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar, David A. Chang, Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, Greg Chun, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, S. Joe Estores, Nicholas Kawelakai Farrant, Jessica Ka'ui Fu, Candace Fujikane, Linda H. L. Furuto, Sonny Ganaden, Cheryl Geslani, Vernadette VicuÑa Gonzalez, Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua, Tina Grandinetti, Craig Howes, Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, Noelle M. K. Y. Kahanu, Haley Kailiehu, Kyle Kajihiro, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Terrilee N. Kekoolani-Raymond, Kekuewa Kikiloi, William Kinney, Francesca Koethe, Karen K. Kosasa, N. Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, Kapulani Landgraf, Laura E. Lyons, David Uahikeaikalei'ohu Maile, Brandy Nālani McDougall, Davianna Pōmaika'i McGregor, Laurel Mei-Singh, P. Kalawai'a Moore, Summer Kaimalia Mullins-Ibrahim, Jordan Muratsuchi, Hanohano Naehu, Malia Nobrega-Olivera, Katrina-Ann R. Kapā'anaokalāokeola Nākoa Oliveira, Jamaica Heolimelekalani Osorio, No'eau Peralto, No'u Revilla, Kalaniua Ritte, Maya L. Kawailanaokeawaiki Saffery, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Noenoe K. Silva, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan, Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Stan Tomita, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Wendy Mapuana Waipā, Julie Warech
Contents
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1. Wahi Pana / Storied Places 15
Only Twenty Ahupua'a Away 19
Hā-mākua 26
He Mo'olelo no Pa'auilo: Restor(y)ing 'Āina in a Quiet, Old Plantation Town in Hāmākua 28
Ponoiwi 37
Wehe a'ela ka 'Īao ma Haleakalā 45
(Locals Will) Remove All Valuables from You Vehicle: The Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens and the Damming of the Waters 50
Finding Direction: Google Mapping the Sacred, Mo'olelo Mapping Wahi Pana in Five Poems 58
Princess Ka'iulani Haunts the Empire of Waikīkī 67
Sources of Sustainment: Fort Kamehameha and 'Āhua Point 77
Fantasy Island: From Pineapple Plantation to Tourist Plantation on Lāna'i 86
Anini 94
Kahale'ala, Halele'a: Fragrant Joyful Home, a Visit to Anini, Kaua'i 96
Nā Pana Kaulana o Keaukaha: The Stories Places of Keaukaha 107
Part II. Hana Lima / Decolonial Projects and Representation 119
Ke Kilohana 123
Aloha is Deoccupied Love 125
Sovereign Spaces: Creating Decolonial Zones through Hula and Mele 132
Settler Colonial Postcards 147
An Island Negotiating a Pathway for Responsible Tourism 153
Ka Hale Hō'ike'ike a Pihopa: A Bishop Museum Love Story 164
Reclaiming the 'Ili of Haukulu and 'Aihulama 173
Keauhou Resort: Rethinking Highest and Best Use 182
'A'ole is Our Refusal 193
"Where are Your Sacred Temples?" Notes on the Struggle for Mauna a Wākea 200
Kūluku Hale in Hāna, East Maui: Reviving Traditional Hawaiian House and Heaiu Building 211
Pū'olo Pa'akai: A Bundle of Salt from Pū'olo, Hanapēpē, Kaua'i 220
"Welcome to the Future:" Restoring Keawanui Fishpond 230
Part III. Huaka'i / Tours for Transformation 245
The Hawai'i DeTour Project: Demilitarizing Sites and Sights on O'ahu 249
Kanaloa Kaho'olawe: He Wahi Akua / A Sacred Place 261
Fences and Fishing Nets: Conflicting Visions of Stewardship for Ka'ena and Mākua 271
Beneath the Touristic Sheen of Waikīkī 283
Sakada 293
A Downtown Honolulu and Capital District Decolonial Tour 300
Unearthing 'Auwai and Urban Histories in Kaka'ako 315
Displaced Kaka'ako 326
What's under the Pavement in my Neighborhood, Pūowaina 238
Mapping Wonder in Lualualei on theHuaka'i Kāko'o no Wai'anae Environmental Justice Bus Tour 340
Part IV. Hawai'i beyond the Big Eight / New mappings 351
Where is Hawai'i? Hawaiian Diaspora and Kuleana 355
We Never Voyage Alone 362
Law of Canoe: Reckoning Colonialism and Criminal Justice in the Pacific 373
Reconnecting with Ancestroial Islands: A Guide to Papahānaumokuākea (the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) 380
Conclusion: 'A'ole I Pau (Not Yet Finished) 391
Glossary of Terms 393
Select References 405
Contributors 409
Index 417
