Name: First Light. Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea
SKU: 64797493
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Author: Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
ISBN: 9781517902469

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First Light. Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Minnesota Press

Autor

Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar

Año

2025

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6x14x1.7 cm

ISBN13

9781517902469

First Light. Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea

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Understanding the Hawai'i Island summit of Mauna a Wakea as a place of ancestral connection, cultural resurgence, and political resistance for Native Hawaiians? First Light is a site-specific study of Native Hawaiian resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the summit of Mauna a Wakea, the sacred mountain on the island of Hawai'i. Drawing on personal interviews, oral histories, archival research, participant observation, and popular, legal, scientific, and Indigenous discourses, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar explores both the campaign to build the observatory and the movement against it. He asks how astronomers have become stewards of Mauna a Wakea while Kanaka 'Oiwi (Aboriginal Hawaiians), in protest, are recast as obstructing progress and clinging to ancient superstitions. Contextualizing contemporary resistance to telescope expansion within the past 132 years of struggle against U.S. empire in Hawai'i, Casumbal-Salazar argues the Kanaka-led efforts to protect their ancestral lands did not begin with the TMT and only become legible when understood in the broader history of resistance to U.S. settler hegemony as told through the voices and actions of kia?i ?aina (land defenders). First Light explores how settler science, capital, and law have been mobilized in ways that rationalize industrial development projects like the TMT and promote a vision of "coexistence" that enables the dehumanization of Kanaka 'Oiwi and their alienation from ?aina. Challenging the assumptions and aggressions of neoliberal environmental policy, settler multiculturalism, and U.S. military occupation, First Light reinforces calls for a moratorium on new telescope development and a literacy in Kanaka 'Oiwi movements for life, land, and ea (independence, sovereignty). Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.