Multicultural settler colonialism and indigenous struggle in Hawaii: the politics of astronomy on Mauna A Wakea
- Author:
- Casumbal-Salazar, Iokepa (Joseph A. Salazar)
- Title:
- Multicultural settler colonialism and indigenous struggle in Hawaii: the politics of astronomy on Mauna A Wakea
- Periodical:
- Political Science
- Year:
- 2014
- Volume:
- Ph.D.
- Pages:
- 356
- Subject:
- Mauna Kea Astronomical observatories Mauna Kea controversy Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)
- Summary:
- The author examines the politics of telescopes on the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea through archival research, formal interviews, discourse analysis, and participant obervation; and argues that the latest dispute over Thirty Meter Telescope takes place in the broader context of multicultural settler colonialism under U.S. occupation, realized through law and rationalized by science.
- URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10125/101135
- Date:
- August 2014
- Collection:
- Monographs