S1 #3 | Decolonizing Travel in Hawai'i | Hokulani Aikau & Vernadette Gonzalez (Detours)

The End of Tourism

On this episode our guests are Dr Hokulani K Aikau (a Kanaka Oiwi) and Dr Vernadette V Gonzalez, editors of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i. They join me to discuss the ongoing COVID-19 tourism crisis in Hawaii, the military-tourism industrial complex, the appropriation of Aloha, the importance of the invitation in hospitality, tourism under a sovereign Hawai'i, as well as the US occupation of Hawai'i. We had an amazing time on this interview and it ends with a bang - speaking to responsibility, imagination, and action.

Dr Aikau is currently a professor at the University of Victoria in the Indigenous Governance Program. In addition to the Detours series, she has also published two other books including A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawaiʻi, as well as Feminist Waves, Feminist Generational Cultures: Life Stories from Three Generations in the Academy, 1968-1998.

Dr Gonzalez is a professor of American Studies and Director of the Honors Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. 1She has authored other books including her most recent, entitled “Empire’s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper’ as well as “Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines.” Vernadette is also the editor and author of many other collections and articles on tourism, empire, and militarism.

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Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i (Read the Introduction Free)

Duke University Press: Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i

Google Scholar: Vernadette V. Gonzalez

Empire′s Mistress, Starring Isabel Rosario Cooper by Vernadette V. Gonzalez

Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai’i and the Philippines by Vernadette V. Gonzalez

A Chosen People, a Promised Land: Mormonism and Race in Hawai’i by Hokulani K. Aikau

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