{"product_id":"first-light-iokepa-casumbal-salazar-9781517902469","title":"First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnderstanding the Hawai'i Island summit of Mauna a Wākea as a place of ancestral connection, cultural resurgence, and political resistance for Native Hawaiians​\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Light\u003c\/i\u003e is a site-specific study of Native Hawaiian resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the summit of Mauna a Wākea, the sacred volcano on the island of Hawai'i. Drawing on personal interviews, oral histories, archival research, participant observation, and popular, legal, scientific, and Indigenous discourses, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar explores both the campaign to build the observatory and the movement against it. He asks how astronomers have become stewards of Mauna a Wākea while Kanaka 'Ōiwi (Aboriginal Hawaiians), in protest, are recast as obstructing progress and clinging to ancient superstitions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contextualizing contemporary resistance to telescope expansion within the past 125 years of struggle against U.S. empire in Hawai'i, Casumbal-Salazar argues the Kanaka-led efforts to protect their ancestral lands did not begin with the TMT and only become legible when understood in the broader history of resistance to U.S. settler hegemony as told through the voices and actions of kiaʻi ʻāina (land defenders). \u003ci\u003eFirst Light\u003c\/i\u003e explores how settler science, capital, and law have been mobilized in ways that rationalize industrial development projects like the TMT and promote a vision of \"coexistence\" that enables the dehumanization of Kanaka 'Ōiwi and their alienation from ʻāina. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Challenging the assumptions and aggressions of neoliberal environmental policy, settler multiculturalism, and U.S. military occupation, \u003ci\u003eFirst Light\u003c\/i\u003e reinforces calls for a moratorium on new telescope development and a literacy in Kanaka 'Ōiwi movements for life, land, and Ea (independence, sovereignty). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517902460\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517902469\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d","brand":"Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039897895167,"sku":"9781517902469","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d4d93a02-7e4f-4951-8e82-506206cb3c7b.jpg?v=1752752905","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/first-light-iokepa-casumbal-salazar-9781517902469","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}