60.073 - Women and Race in Hawai'i: Educational Enactments and New Possibilities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together a series of five papers that explore the complexities and materiality of living as gendered and racialized subjects within the educational structures of Hawai’i. These writings negotiate a (post) qualitative approach to a feminist exploration of difference, through the presentation of stories that grapple with the process of subjectification. Through re-telling and recognizing the importance of difference not as a category, but rather as a continuous, emerging possibility of enactments, the papers in this symposium aim to disrupt the historical repeated injuries of colonialism in Hawai’i ’s education system. These explorations challenge us to engage with complex questions of difference in Hawai’i and the implications this has for feminist and decolonizing research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Postcolonial Studies and Education

Chair

• Hannah M. Tavares, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Papers

• 99 Problems, and Algebra Is 1 - Eomailani Kukahiko, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Hauntings and Entanglements in Rereading the Early Missionary Journals of White Women in Hawai'i - Sarah Jane Twomey, University of Hawaii

• Nā 'A'ali'i Kū Makani: Stories of Native Hawaiian Female Survivance - Kaiwipuni Lipe, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• On My Honor: Thinking and Living Girl Scouts Differently in (Post)Colonial Hawai'i - Patricia E. Halagao, University of Hawaii - Manoa; Julie L. Kaomea, University of Hawaii - Manoa

• Mo'o Lono: Searching for an Authentic Dissertation Model to Tell a Hawaiian Story of Transformation, Timeliness, Perpetuity, and Hawaiian Epistemology - Cathy Kanoelani Ikeda, University of Hawaii - West Oahu

Discussant

• Marnina Gonick, Mount Saint Vincent University