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Research paper thumbnail of Anarchist forms of organising and bayanihan (solidarity) in the face of a Philippine state of calamities

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of A Convergence of Hands and Waters Weaving Relations and Resistances

Okinawan Journal of Island Studies, 2023

, Theresa "Isa" Arriola and Jacinta "Cinta" Kaipat launched their "Affect and Colonialism" (AAC) ... more , Theresa "Isa" Arriola and Jacinta "Cinta" Kaipat launched their "Affect and Colonialism" (AAC) virtual video project Everyday Life in an Imperial Archipelago from Germany (Arriola and Kaipat 2022a). Alongside their seven minute and thirty second video is a posted description that explains that: [Their digital project] explores the varied, complex and ambivalent experiences of the Indigenous Chamorro and Refaluwasch peoples in an area of the Western Pacific that comprises a highly strategic location for United States military training and testing. We highlight the role of art and music in these everyday experiences alongside our engagement with the US Military's many environmental plans that seek to alter our lands and cultural identities for generations to come. (Arriola and Kaipat 2022b) Filipina Assistant Professor Rosa Cordillera Castillo, one of the AAC project coordinators, invited me to join with Isa Arriola for the panel discussion. In 2016, I had become friends with Castillo during a Berlin protest at the Brandenburg Gate. In 2022, she was crucial to my degree when on my PhD defense committee at Humboldt University of Berlin. The launch event was a storytelling evening for Arriola to introduce their website project (Affect and Colonialism 2022) and also included another friend, Māori poet, songwriter, and researcher Hinemoana Baker. My role was to engage with parts of my research on Hawai'i-Philippines-Oceania and global climate justice solidarities, for which I theorized a "spirit of relationality" that revolves around spirit and "invisible" sources of knowledge and relations. It is also congruent with the Andean cosmology or relationality of pacha (spacetime) to other shores of the Pacific Ocean, a relationality invisible

Research paper thumbnail of The female voice in Pasifika poetry: An exploration of “hybrid” identities in the Pacific diaspora

Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Klimagerechtigkeit ist kein Terrorakt, sondern ein Grundrecht

Blickwechsel, 2021

Laut dem Global Witness Report belegen die Philippinen 2019 wieder einen der obersten Plätze bei ... more Laut dem Global Witness Report belegen die Philippinen 2019 wieder einen der obersten Plätze bei den Ermordungen von Umweltschützer*innen oder Environmental Defenders. Immerhin erneut an zweiter Stelle nach Kolumbien, und, wie schon zuletzt 2017, zweitplatziert hinter Brasilien. Die 43 Morde waren dennoch wieder weitaus mehr als die 30 Ermordungen im Jahr 2018. Mai 2021 Blick wechsel "Climate Justice Now!"-"Klimagerechtigkeit, jetzt!" ist zum globalen Motto der Klimaaktivist*innen geworden. Es geht nicht nur darum aufzuzeigen, dass die Klimakrise zu überwinden uns alle angeht, sondern auch, die kolonialen Wechselwirkungen der Ungerechtigkeit in dieser Krise und deren Bekämpfung mitzudenken. Die Philippinen sind als Inselstaat durch immer wieder auftretende Extremwetterphänomene wie Taifune und steigende Meereswasserspiegel besonders stark von den Auswirkungen der Klimakrise betroffen, weswegen philippinische Klimaaktivist*innen in ihrer prekären Lage bereits dringliche Appelle und Aktionen hervorbrachten, von denen man sich auch in Deutschland einiges an Strategien und Optimismus abgucken kann.

Research paper thumbnail of The female voice in Pasifika poetry: An exploration of "hybrid" identities in the Pacific diaspora

Journal of Postcolonial Writing , 2019

Histories of colonialism and migration have led to a wide variety of cultural identities in the P... more Histories of colonialism and migration have led to a wide variety of cultural identities in the Pacific diaspora. Afakasi in Samoan, hafekasi in Tongan, hapa in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi are all used to describe "half-caste" Pacific Islander identities of mixed heritage. This article analyses themes of hybrid diasporic identity in poems by Karlo Mila, Grace Teuila Taylor, Selina Tusitala Marsh and the late Teresia K. Teaiwa. Special focus is put on issues of "finding oneself" and the struggles of reconciling "traditional" and modern-day female roles. The following perspectives inform this exploration: hybrid Pasifika identities constitute themselves in culturally specific differences, yet are connected in their pan-Pacific similarities; poetry is used to express these identities and social roles in the Pacific diaspora, particularly regarding academia and motherhood; and a cultural tradition of orality and storytelling emphasizes the significance of turning writing into spoken performance.

Research paper thumbnail of Making a nation and faking a state: illegal annexation and sovereignty miseducation in Hawai’i

Pacific Geographies, 2015

As a result of the re-emergence of the 1897 Kū’ē protest petitions and more recent scholarship am... more As a result of the re-emergence of the 1897 Kū’ē protest petitions and more recent scholarship among academics, which counter the U.S. history of annexation and occupation, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa scholars have been addressing the discourse on De-occupation instead of pursuing a nation-within-a-nation arrangement of U.S. federal recognition. This article describes the February 2016 ‘Aha Na’i Aupuni, a self-governance and constitution-writing meeting for and by Native Hawaiians, and includes the first-hand observations of one of the participating delegates. This Na’i Aupuni process is tied in with the recent protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Mauna Kea on Hawai’i Island in early 2015. The momentum of the Mauna Kea protests has led to a renewed sense of responsibility to educate on the history of illegal annexation, and on the significance of land for Hawaiians and Hawaiian sovereignty in particular.

Interviews by Karin Louise Hermes

Research paper thumbnail of A new EAducation Interview with Ku'uipo Freitas The Hawaii Independent

An interview with the young immersion-educated Hawaiian scholar who started Mauna Media to docume... more An interview with the young immersion-educated Hawaiian scholar who started Mauna Media to document, first-hand, the nearly year-long TMT blockade.

Public Scholarship/Media Essays by Karin Louise Hermes

Research paper thumbnail of Confronting the Haole Attitude Towards Aloha 'Āina

I. I will start off by saying I'm not indigenous to the islands, I'm not born and raised in Hawai... more I. I will start off by saying I'm not indigenous to the islands, I'm not born and raised in Hawai'i, I'm not even residing there right now, but on the pro-TMT side, it is those that are as well neither Kanaka Maoli nor long-term residents of Hawai'i, who are the most self-righteous in their arguments for the construction. There is a certain fact they have no respect for or just refuse to understand.

Thesis/Dissertation by Karin Louise Hermes

Research paper thumbnail of Yumi olgeta papua niugini : cultural identity formations and national consciousness among urban-educated youth in Papua New Guinea

Research paper thumbnail of Anarchist forms of organising and bayanihan (solidarity) in the face of a Philippine state of calamities

Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of A Convergence of Hands and Waters Weaving Relations and Resistances

Okinawan Journal of Island Studies, 2023

, Theresa "Isa" Arriola and Jacinta "Cinta" Kaipat launched their "Affect and Colonialism" (AAC) ... more , Theresa "Isa" Arriola and Jacinta "Cinta" Kaipat launched their "Affect and Colonialism" (AAC) virtual video project Everyday Life in an Imperial Archipelago from Germany (Arriola and Kaipat 2022a). Alongside their seven minute and thirty second video is a posted description that explains that: [Their digital project] explores the varied, complex and ambivalent experiences of the Indigenous Chamorro and Refaluwasch peoples in an area of the Western Pacific that comprises a highly strategic location for United States military training and testing. We highlight the role of art and music in these everyday experiences alongside our engagement with the US Military's many environmental plans that seek to alter our lands and cultural identities for generations to come. (Arriola and Kaipat 2022b) Filipina Assistant Professor Rosa Cordillera Castillo, one of the AAC project coordinators, invited me to join with Isa Arriola for the panel discussion. In 2016, I had become friends with Castillo during a Berlin protest at the Brandenburg Gate. In 2022, she was crucial to my degree when on my PhD defense committee at Humboldt University of Berlin. The launch event was a storytelling evening for Arriola to introduce their website project (Affect and Colonialism 2022) and also included another friend, Māori poet, songwriter, and researcher Hinemoana Baker. My role was to engage with parts of my research on Hawai'i-Philippines-Oceania and global climate justice solidarities, for which I theorized a "spirit of relationality" that revolves around spirit and "invisible" sources of knowledge and relations. It is also congruent with the Andean cosmology or relationality of pacha (spacetime) to other shores of the Pacific Ocean, a relationality invisible

Research paper thumbnail of The female voice in Pasifika poetry: An exploration of “hybrid” identities in the Pacific diaspora

Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of Klimagerechtigkeit ist kein Terrorakt, sondern ein Grundrecht

Blickwechsel, 2021

Laut dem Global Witness Report belegen die Philippinen 2019 wieder einen der obersten Plätze bei ... more Laut dem Global Witness Report belegen die Philippinen 2019 wieder einen der obersten Plätze bei den Ermordungen von Umweltschützer*innen oder Environmental Defenders. Immerhin erneut an zweiter Stelle nach Kolumbien, und, wie schon zuletzt 2017, zweitplatziert hinter Brasilien. Die 43 Morde waren dennoch wieder weitaus mehr als die 30 Ermordungen im Jahr 2018. Mai 2021 Blick wechsel "Climate Justice Now!"-"Klimagerechtigkeit, jetzt!" ist zum globalen Motto der Klimaaktivist*innen geworden. Es geht nicht nur darum aufzuzeigen, dass die Klimakrise zu überwinden uns alle angeht, sondern auch, die kolonialen Wechselwirkungen der Ungerechtigkeit in dieser Krise und deren Bekämpfung mitzudenken. Die Philippinen sind als Inselstaat durch immer wieder auftretende Extremwetterphänomene wie Taifune und steigende Meereswasserspiegel besonders stark von den Auswirkungen der Klimakrise betroffen, weswegen philippinische Klimaaktivist*innen in ihrer prekären Lage bereits dringliche Appelle und Aktionen hervorbrachten, von denen man sich auch in Deutschland einiges an Strategien und Optimismus abgucken kann.

Research paper thumbnail of The female voice in Pasifika poetry: An exploration of "hybrid" identities in the Pacific diaspora

Journal of Postcolonial Writing , 2019

Histories of colonialism and migration have led to a wide variety of cultural identities in the P... more Histories of colonialism and migration have led to a wide variety of cultural identities in the Pacific diaspora. Afakasi in Samoan, hafekasi in Tongan, hapa in ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi are all used to describe "half-caste" Pacific Islander identities of mixed heritage. This article analyses themes of hybrid diasporic identity in poems by Karlo Mila, Grace Teuila Taylor, Selina Tusitala Marsh and the late Teresia K. Teaiwa. Special focus is put on issues of "finding oneself" and the struggles of reconciling "traditional" and modern-day female roles. The following perspectives inform this exploration: hybrid Pasifika identities constitute themselves in culturally specific differences, yet are connected in their pan-Pacific similarities; poetry is used to express these identities and social roles in the Pacific diaspora, particularly regarding academia and motherhood; and a cultural tradition of orality and storytelling emphasizes the significance of turning writing into spoken performance.

Research paper thumbnail of Making a nation and faking a state: illegal annexation and sovereignty miseducation in Hawai’i

Pacific Geographies, 2015

As a result of the re-emergence of the 1897 Kū’ē protest petitions and more recent scholarship am... more As a result of the re-emergence of the 1897 Kū’ē protest petitions and more recent scholarship among academics, which counter the U.S. history of annexation and occupation, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa scholars have been addressing the discourse on De-occupation instead of pursuing a nation-within-a-nation arrangement of U.S. federal recognition. This article describes the February 2016 ‘Aha Na’i Aupuni, a self-governance and constitution-writing meeting for and by Native Hawaiians, and includes the first-hand observations of one of the participating delegates. This Na’i Aupuni process is tied in with the recent protests against the Thirty Meter Telescope project on Mauna Kea on Hawai’i Island in early 2015. The momentum of the Mauna Kea protests has led to a renewed sense of responsibility to educate on the history of illegal annexation, and on the significance of land for Hawaiians and Hawaiian sovereignty in particular.

Research paper thumbnail of A new EAducation Interview with Ku'uipo Freitas The Hawaii Independent

An interview with the young immersion-educated Hawaiian scholar who started Mauna Media to docume... more An interview with the young immersion-educated Hawaiian scholar who started Mauna Media to document, first-hand, the nearly year-long TMT blockade.

Research paper thumbnail of Confronting the Haole Attitude Towards Aloha 'Āina

I. I will start off by saying I'm not indigenous to the islands, I'm not born and raised in Hawai... more I. I will start off by saying I'm not indigenous to the islands, I'm not born and raised in Hawai'i, I'm not even residing there right now, but on the pro-TMT side, it is those that are as well neither Kanaka Maoli nor long-term residents of Hawai'i, who are the most self-righteous in their arguments for the construction. There is a certain fact they have no respect for or just refuse to understand.

Research paper thumbnail of Yumi olgeta papua niugini : cultural identity formations and national consciousness among urban-educated youth in Papua New Guinea