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A Nation Rising chronicles the political struggles and grassroots initiatives collectively known as the Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Scholars, community organizers, journalists, and filmmakers contribute essays that explore Native Hawaiian resistance and resurgence from the 1970s to the early 2010s. Photographs and vignettes about particular activists further bring Hawaiian social movements to life. The stories and analyses of efforts to protect land and natural resources, resist community dispossession, and advance claims for sovereignty and self-determination reveal the diverse objectives and strategies, as well as the inevitable tensions of the broad-tent sovereignty movement. The collection explores the Hawaiian political ethic of ea, which both includes and exceeds dominant notions of state-based sovereignty. A Nation Rising raises issues that resonate far beyond the Hawaiian archipelago, issues such as indigenous cultural revitalization, environmental justice, and demilitarization.

Dr. Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua is an associate professor in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, teaching graduate and undergraduate level courses in Hawai‘i politics, indigenous politics, and decolonial futures. She completed her undergraduate work at UH-Mānoa in Hawaiian studies and political science, and earned her Ph.D. in history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Dr. Goodyear-Ka‘ōpua will be joined by one of her co-editors of A Nation Rising, Dr. Erin Kahunawaikaʻala Wright, a professor of educational administration at the Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

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