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Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
Self-Study Guide Weaving Networks for Systemic Change
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
In these trails we can see disability as bodily injury impacting many species. We can see the way that injury is shaped by social inequality. We can see disability as a lived experience leveraged to provide evidence of harm and wrongdoing, or, in contrast, as a moralizing concept utilized to direct blame back onto the injured themselves.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
The Age of Disability exposes how systems of power rely on, benefit from, and produce disability in and among human people in ways that are enmeshed with how they benefit from and produce disablement in and among ecosystems and nonhuman species.
Sunaura Taylor • Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert
Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.