Native Hawaiian Responses to 18th and 19th Century Leisure Discourses and their Haunting Consequences

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Fox, Karen

• SSHRC Awarded IDG 2015: The project focuses on historical analysis of indigenous Hawaiians' [Kanaka Maoli] submissions to Hawaiian language newspapers (1834 - 1948). In 19th century Hawaii, missionaries' leisure-discourses were intimately connected with colonial structures and judgments about Kanaka Maoli's fitness to self-govern. Having adopted writing early in the missionary experience, Kanaka Maoli used self-produced, Hawaiian language, newspapers to create an intellectual tradition and commons from 1838 to 1948. These newspapers are a valuable source for understanding what Kanaka Maoli of the time thought about the discourses that categorized their cultural/spiritual practices as marketable leisure activities. The project will include developing a leisure-search strategy for the yet-untranslated Hawaiian language newspapers, and analysis of two Kanaka Maoli practices labeled as leisure by missionaries. The intellectual outcomes will include: Demonstrate the role of leisure discourses in colonial misrepresentations of Indigenous practices and Kanaka Maoli use of cultural practices to maintain well-being and resist colonialization. Materially contribute to the Hawaiian-language intellectual commons through search strategies and translation; Historical analysis has implications for current tourism/leisure practices and self-determination actions relevant for other Indigenous communities.

• Date created

  2015-01-21

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Library and Information Science
  • Colonization
  • Demography
  • Journalism
  • United States
  • Sociology
  • Decolonization
  • Arts and Culture
  • Missionization
  • Mo'olelo
  • Polynesia
  • Hawaiian Language
  • Nupepa
  • Media Studies
  • 2015
  • Americanization
  • Communication studies
  • Leisure Studies
  • Indigenous Leisures
  • Recreation
  • Grant Application
  • Cultural Studies
  • Gender studies
  • Insight Development Grant
  • Successful SSHRC
  • Hawaiian Newspapers
  • Indigenous Epistemologies
  • Kanaka Maoli
  • IDG
  • Kawaihuelani Center
  • Indigenous Methodologies
  • 1830-1900
  • Critical Theory
  • Native Hawaiian Leisure
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Hawaii
  • 1830 - 1900
  • Hawaii

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R33R0PW7P

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International