Asian settler colonialism : from local governance to the habits of everyday life in Hawai'i

__Asian Settler Colonialism__ is a groundbreaking collection that examines the roles of Asians as settlers in Hawai‘i. Contributors from various fields and disciplines investigate aspects of Asian settler colonialism to illustrate its diverse operations and impact on Native Hawaiians. Essays range from analyses of Japanese, Korean, and Filipino settlement to accounts of Asian settler practices in the legislature, the prison industrial complex, and the U.S. military to critiques of Asian settlers’ claims to Hawai‘i in literature and the visual arts.

What is the politics of civil society? Focusing on the Philippines - home to the mother of all election-watch movements, the original People Power revolt, and one of the largest and most diverse NGO populations in the world - Eva-Lotta Hedman offers a critique that goes against the grain of much other current scholarship. Her highly original work challenges celebratory and universalist accounts that tend to reify "civil society" as a unified and coherent entity, and to ascribe a single meaning and automatic trajectory to its role in democratization. She shows how mobilization in the name of civil society is contingent on the intercession of citizens and performative displays of citizenship - as opposed to other appeals and articulations of identity, such as class.

In short, Hedman argues, the very definitions of "civil" and "society" are at stake. Based on extensive research spanning the course of a decade (1991-2001), this study offers a powerful analysis of Philippine politics and society inspired by the writings of Antonio Gramsci. It draws on a rich collection of sources from archives, interviews, newspapers, and participant-observation. It identifies a cycle of recurring "crises of authority," involving mounting threats - from above and below - to oligarchical democracy in the Philippines. Tracing the trajectory of Gramscian "dominant bloc" of social forces, Hedman shows how each such crisis in the Philippines promotes a countermobilization by the "intellectuals" of the dominant bloc: the capitalist class, the Catholic Church, and the U.S. government. In documenting the capacity of so-called "secondary associations" (business, lay, professional) to project moral and intellectual leadership in each of these crises, this study sheds new light on the forces and dynamics of change and continuity in Philippine politics and society.

“Settlers, Not Immigrants” Contents Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction. Asian Settler Colonialism in the U.S. Colony of Hawai‘i PART I: NATIVE Defining the Settler Colonial Problem Settlers of Color and “Immigrant” Hegemony. “Locals” in Hawai‘i “Apologies” Hawai‘i and the United Nations Hawaiian Sovereignty Settler-Dominated State Apparatuses. The State Legislature and the Prison Industrial Complex ‘Ïlio‘ulaokalani. Defending Native Hawaiian Culture A Nation Incarcerated Settler-Dominated Ideological State Apparatuses. Literature and the Visual Arts “This Land Is Your Land, Th is Land Was My Land”. Kanaka Maoli versus Settler Representations of ‘Äina in Contemporary Literature of Hawai‘i “‘Ai Pöhaku” photo series PART II: SETTLER Consequences of Settler Colonialism The Hawaiians. Health, Justice, and Sovereignty The Militarizing of Hawai‘i. Occupation, Accommodation, and Resistance Whose Vision? Rethinking Japanese, Korean, and Filipino Settlement Sites of Erasure. The Representation of Settler Culture in Hawai‘i Ideological Images. U.S. Nationalism in Japanese Settler Photographs Ethnic Boundary Construction in the Japanese American Community in Hawai‘i Colonial Amnesia. Rethinking Filipino “American” Settler Empowerment in the U.S. Colony of Hawai‘i Anatomy of a Dancer. Place, Lineage, and Liberation Speaking Out against Asian Settler Power Local Japanese Women for Justice (LJWJ) Speak Out against Daniel Inouye and the JACL List of Contributors Index