Reproducing the Ropes of Resistance: Hawaiian Studies Methodologies (original) (raw)

What makes Hawaiian studies different from other studies of Hawai‘i or of Kanaka Hawai‘i? What makes various works Hawaiian studies, as distinct from geography, or history, or botany projects that, for instance, investigate Hawaiian content? What makes this dynamic, interdisciplinary field cohere? This chapter is a modest attempt to map some of the methodological foundations that have been laid by late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century scholars who birthed contemporary Hawaiian studies. I discuss four concepts that might be seen as niho stones in a kahua that has been laid before us. We can think about lāhui (collective identity and self-definition), ea (sovereignty and leadership), kuleana (positionality and obligations), and pono (harmonious relationships, justice, and healing) as central commitments and lines of inquiry that are hallmarks of Hawaiian studies research.

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