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DESCRIPTION:From Identification to Disavowal: Engaging Feminism in the Work of Haunani-Kay Trask,\nJ. Kehaulani Kauanui, American Studies and Anthropology, Wesleyan University.\n\nThis talk is based on my next book project, on Native Hawaiian women’s nationalist\nactivism and the complicated relationship to feminism. There is a paucity of work\nconstituting a body of Native Hawaiian feminist thought, but the bulk of what has been produced is by Haunani-Kay Trask. The talk will explore how she went from identifying as a feminist – as reflected in her first book, Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory (1986) – to dismissing feminism altogether as irrelevant to the realities of Native Hawaiian women in From a Native Daughter (1992). Trask advanced a critique of the Western individualism promoted by white American feminism, which she argues undermines Hawaiian collective struggles for self-determination. Trask’s political critique of feminism, as both a cultural and political problem, deserves serious consideration. Thus, my talk tracks her shifting political trajectory to suggest how feminism may pose an epistemological problem for Hawaiian sovereignty and the\nreclamation of mana wahine (women’s power).\n\nJ. Kehaulani Kauanui is Professor of American Studies and affiliate faculty in Anthropology at Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on indigenous studies, critical race studies, settler colonial studies, and anarchist studies. She is the author of\nHawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke\nUniversity Press 2008) and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the\nColonial Politics of State Nationalism (Duke University Press 2018). She is also the\neditor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and\nTribal Leaders (University of Minnesota Press 2018), which is based on the radio\nprogram she produced and hosted for seven years, “Indigenous Politics: From Native\nNew England and Beyond” that was widely syndicated through the Pacific network.\nKauanui currently serves as a co-producer for an anarchist politics show called, “Anarchy on Air,” a majority-POC show co-produced with a group of Wesleyan students, which builds on her earlier work on another collaborative anarchist program called “Horizontal Power Hour.” Kauanui is one of the six original co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), established in 2008.
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SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Brown Bag Biography: J. Kehaulani Kauanui
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