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Book SynopsisMany people first encounter Hawaii through the imagination-a postcard picture of hula girls, luaus, and plenty of sun, surf, and sea. While Hawaii is indeed beautiful, Native Hawaiians struggle with the problems brought about by colonialism, military occupation, tourism, food insecurity, high costs of living, and climate change. In this brilliant reinvention of the travel guide, artists, activists, and scholars redirect readers from the fantasy of Hawaii as a tropical paradise and tourist destination toward a multilayered and holistic engagement with Hawaii's culture and complex history. The essays, stories, artworks, maps, and tour itineraries in Detours create decolonial narratives in ways that will forever change how readers think about and move throughout Hawaii. Contributors. Hokulani K. Aikau, Malia Akutagawa, Adele Balderston, Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Ellen-Rae Cachola, Emily Cadiz, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar, David A. Chang, Lianne Marie Leda Charlie, Greg Chun, Joy Lehuanani Enomoto, S. Joe Estores, Nicholas Kawelakai Farrant, Jessica Kaui Fu, Candace Fujikane, Linda H. L. Furuto, Sonny Ganaden, Cheryl Geslani, Vernadette VicuÑa Gonzalez, Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, Tina Grandinetti, Craig Howes, Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, Noelle M. K. Y. Kahanu, Haley Kailiehu, Kyle Kajihiro, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds, Terrilee N. Kekoolani-Raymond, Kekuewa Kikiloi, William Kinney, Francesca Koethe, Karen K. Kosasa, N. Trisha Lagaso Goldberg, Kapulani Landgraf, Laura E. Lyons, David Uahikeaikaleiohu Maile, Brandy Nalani McDougall, Davianna Pomaikai McGregor, Laurel Mei-Singh, P. Kalawaia Moore, Summer Kaimalia Mullins-Ibrahim, Jordan Muratsuchi, Hanohano Naehu, Malia Nobrega-Olivera, Katrina-Ann R. Kapaanaokalaokeola Nakoa Oliveira, Jamaica Heolimelekalani Osorio, Noeau Peralto, Nou Revilla, Kalaniua Ritte, Maya L. Kawailanaokeawaiki Saffery, Dean Itsuji Saranillio, Noenoe K. Silva, Ty P. Kawika Tengan, Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Stan Tomita, Mehana Blaich Vaughan, Wendy Mapuana Waipa, Julie Warech
Trade Review“This brilliant and beautiful collection—which features interviews, personal essays, collaborative pieces with community elders, family histories, and more—is a rich ethical project that offers so much for so many. Mahalo!” -- J. Kehaulani Kauanui, author of * Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism *
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Detours] seeks to flip travel writing's static script, telling tourists that they are not entitled to all things Hawaiian because the Hawai‘i of their imagination is obliterating the Hawai‘i of Kānaka Maoli. . . . [Aikau and Gonzalez are] hoping to reach those who intend to become better guests, even if they're in the minority.” -- Bani Amor * Fodor’s Travel *
"The stories, art and ideas collected in
Detours are a guide to the contributors’ connections to Hawaii. As a collective, the stories demonstrate how readers can learn about Hawaii beyond the veneer of tourism, and approach the island-state in a way that honors and reduces harm to the local cultures and communities." -- Crystal Paul * Seattle Times *
"This important book challenges readers to think critically about the violence of colonialism that is expressed through tourism. . . .
Detours is valuable not only to those studying Hawaiʻi, but more broadly to scholars of indigenous studies and anyone interested in the colonial legacies of tourism. Highly recommended. All levels." -- L. Kessler * Choice *
"If you know a particularly intuitive traveler, someone who wants to find the hidden histories of a place, the guidebook
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i . . . will give them perfect examples of ways to reapproach tourism and travel—in other words, to decolonize their experience."
-- Kit Dillon * Wirecutter *
"By collecting the stories of Kanaka, this guide educates its readers with rich, wise primary sources. It effectively amplifies the voices of those most knowledgeable and does not shy away from harsh facts and truths that are often glossed over. . . . I highly recommend this guide to everyone who has or plans to have contact with Hawai’i. What you learn from reading should impact the way you approach your visit and bring to light new considerations to uphold a pono (just, fitting) experience." -- Erica Cheung * International Examiner *
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Detours is more than a book. In fact, it may only incidentally be a book. Rather, this collection feels like an extension of Kanaka innovation that reinvents intergenerational knowledge transmission and documentation.” -- Natchee Blu Barnd * American Indian Culture and Research Journal *
“After reading this book, you cannot journey to Hawai’i without a very different way of knowing this place and its people....
Detours sets an important milestone and has made an invaluable contribution to decolonizing tourism.” -- Freya Higgins-Desbiolles * Journal of Sustainable Tourism *
"A fascinating collection, an attempt to use the framework of the travel industry to destabilize the travel industry . . . scraping at the fantasy version of this place to find what’s been buried." -- Chris Colin * Afar *
“As a text that brings together so many voices,
Detours is indispensable to scholars in Indigenous studies and Pacific studies, as well as activists and organizers at the intersections of decolonization and demilitarization....
Detours is a critical disruption to business as usual.” -- Gregory Pomaikai Gushiken * Native American and Indigenous Studies *
“With its eclectic collection of stories and histories,
Detours reroutes the tourist gaze and offers travelers, scholars, and island residents richly diverse perspectives on Hawai’i.” -- Kirsten Møllegaard * Journal of American Culture *
"It’s rare to find such an honest, deeply informative overview of a destination; the
Detours guide to Hawaii should be required reading for anyone planning to visit the islands, and the same will surely be true of future Detours issues about other spots." * Conde Nast Traveler *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
Part 1. Wahi Pana / Storied Places 15
Only Twenty Ahupua'a Away 19
Hā-mākua 26
He Mo'olelo no Pa'auilo: Restor(y)ing 'Āina in a Quiet, Old Plantation Town in Hāmākua 28
Ponoiwi 37
Wehe a'ela ka 'Īao ma Haleakalā 45
(Locals Will) Remove All Valuables from You Vehicle: The Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens and the Damming of the Waters 50
Finding Direction: Google Mapping the Sacred, Mo'olelo Mapping Wahi Pana in Five Poems 58
Princess Ka'iulani Haunts the Empire of Waikīkī 67
Sources of Sustainment: Fort Kamehameha and 'Āhua Point 77
Fantasy Island: From Pineapple Plantation to Tourist Plantation on Lāna'i 86
Anini 94
Kahale'ala, Halele'a: Fragrant Joyful Home, a Visit to Anini, Kaua'i 96
Nā Pana Kaulana o Keaukaha: The Stories Places of Keaukaha 107
Part II. Hana Lima / Decolonial Projects and Representation 119
Ke Kilohana 123
Aloha is Deoccupied Love 125
Sovereign Spaces: Creating Decolonial Zones through Hula and Mele 132
Settler Colonial Postcards 147
An Island Negotiating a Pathway for Responsible Tourism 153
Ka Hale Hō'ike'ike a Pihopa: A Bishop Museum Love Story 164
Reclaiming the 'Ili of Haukulu and 'Aihulama 173
Keauhou Resort: Rethinking Highest and Best Use 182
'A'ole is Our Refusal 193
"Where are Your Sacred Temples?" Notes on the Struggle for Mauna a Wākea 200
Kūluku Hale in Hāna, East Maui: Reviving Traditional Hawaiian House and Heaiu Building 211
Pū'olo Pa'akai: A Bundle of Salt from Pū'olo, Hanapēpē, Kaua'i 220
"Welcome to the Future:" Restoring Keawanui Fishpond 230
Part III. Huaka'i / Tours for Transformation 245
The Hawai'i DeTour Project: Demilitarizing Sites and Sights on O'ahu 249
Kanaloa Kaho'olawe: He Wahi Akua / A Sacred Place 261
Fences and Fishing Nets: Conflicting Visions of Stewardship for Ka'ena and Mākua 271
Beneath the Touristic Sheen of Waikīkī 283
Sakada 293
A Downtown Honolulu and Capital District Decolonial Tour 300
Unearthing 'Auwai and Urban Histories in Kaka'ako 315
Displaced Kaka'ako 326
What's under the Pavement in my Neighborhood, Pūowaina 238
Mapping Wonder in Lualualei on theHuaka'i Kāko'o no Wai'anae Environmental Justice Bus Tour 340
Part IV. Hawai'i beyond the Big Eight / New mappings 351
Where is Hawai'i? Hawaiian Diaspora and Kuleana 355
We Never Voyage Alone 362
Law of Canoe: Reckoning Colonialism and Criminal Justice in the Pacific 373
Reconnecting with Ancestroial Islands: A Guide to Papahānaumokuākea (the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) 380
Conclusion: 'A'ole I Pau (Not Yet Finished) 391
Glossary of Terms 393
Select References 405
Contributors 409
Index 417
