"N脛聛 Wahine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization"

December 4, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykeandall 410

**please note that this is scheduled for TUESDAY instead of our regular Thursday time N脛聛 W脛聛hine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization documents the political lives of Moanike芒鈧渁la Akaka, Maxine Kahaulelio, Terrilee Keko芒鈧渙lani-Raymond, and Loretta Ritte, four w脛聛hine koa who emerged as movement organizers in the 1970s. While their lives and political work took different paths, they have maintained strong commitments to aloha 脢禄脛聛ina throughout their lives. Combining life writing, photos, political testimonies and other ephemera, the book offers a vivid picture of women in Hawaiian movements for justice, demilitarization, and sovereignty.In this talk and in the book, I center the memories of Hawaiian women activists, who have been marginalized by sexist ways of memorializing the movement. I argue that these w脛聛hine koa offer us futurities that reorient emplaced relationships between pasts and futures through aloha 脢禄脛聛ina. I also grapple with the question of why, in Hawaiian scholarship and activism, aloha 脢禄脛聛ina needs mana wahine and a Hawaiian feminist analysis.

Noelani Goodyear芒鈧淜a芒鈧溍吢峱ua is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at 91精品黑料吃瓜 M脛聛noa. She is the author of The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), and coeditor of A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2014) and The Value of Hawai脢禄i, volume 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions (91精品黑料吃瓜 Press, 2014).


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