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Aloha Media: Negotiating Kānaka Maoli Representation And Identity In Television, Film, And Music

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dc.contributor.advisorAnne Ciecko
dc.contributor.advisorLeda Cooks
dc.contributor.advisorHenry Geddes
dc.contributor.advisorSonya Atalay
dc.contributor.authorMiyose, Colby Y.
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2024-03-27T19:04:47.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T15:45:34Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T15:45:34Z
dc.date.submittedMay
dc.date.submitted2021
dc.description.abstractIn her work on research and Indigenous communities, Māori scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith (1999) points out that academic research is a site of contestation, struggle, and negotiation between the West and Indigenous people, and lays the groundwork for Indigenous researchers to write from a cultural perspective that serves their home community. Hawaiian cultural protocols serve as guidelines for my research. This dissertation, then, is simultaneously a critique of settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi and on screen, and as Foucault (1980) puts it, “an insurrection of subjugated knowledges.” (p.81)—an act of decolonial, Indigenous, and anticolonial thought. In this dissertation I argue that Kānaka Maoli speak in a variety of ways, using a variety of mediums, while still living in a colonized world. In Chapter 1, I provide a literature review of the continual oppression and colonization of Native Hawaiians, as well as past research of stereotypes about Hawaiians in media. In Chapter 2, I discuss my positionality as a Kānaka scholar, summarizing my theoretical and methodological approach to this project. After laying the framework for this dissertation, Chapters 3, 4, and 5 are case studies of corporate produced and Indigenous produced mediated texts in television, film, and music. Chapter 3 reviews how Hawaiians are portrayed in television by evaluating the renewed Hawaii Five-0 series and Native owned ʻŌiwi TV network. Film contexts are observed in Chapter 4, analyzing the Disney film Moana and the recently debuted film by Native Hawaiian filmmaker Chris Kahunahana, Waikiki. In Chapter 5, I analyze two songs written by Native Hawaiian artists, Rise Up by Ryan Hiraoka featuring Keala Kawaauhau and #WeAreMaunaKea by Sons of Yeshua. These songs were written in protest of building a telescope on the sacred mountain Mauna Kea. Finally, Chapter 6, summarizes and connects all case studies to the overarching idea of aloha, while also envisioning what works like this can do in transforming the academy and pedagogy.
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.description.departmentCommunication
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/22278875.0
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6882-6947
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/18505
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3252&context=dissertations_2&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjecttextual analysis
dc.subjectbraided knowledges
dc.subjectNative Hawaiian studies
dc.subjectmedia studies
dc.subjectpostcolonial studies
dc.subjectindigenous studies
dc.subjectCritical and Cultural Studies
dc.subjectFilm and Media Studies
dc.subjectHawaiian Studies
dc.subjectIndigenous Studies
dc.subjectRace, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
dc.subjectRhetoric
dc.titleAloha Media: Negotiating Kānaka Maoli Representation And Identity In Television, Film, And Music
dc.typeopenaccess
dc.typearticle
dc.typedissertation
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