{"id":39864,"date":"2024-12-06T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/decolonial-ethics-in-maritime-heritage-preservation-the-case-of-tmt-in-hawai%ca%bbi\/"},"modified":"2024-12-06T00:30:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T00:30:39","slug":"decolonial-ethics-in-maritime-heritage-preservation-the-case-of-tmt-in-hawai%ca%bbi","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/decolonial-ethics-in-maritime-heritage-preservation-the-case-of-tmt-in-hawai%ca%bbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonial Ethics in Maritime Heritage Preservation: The Case of TMT in Hawai\u02bbi"},"content":{"rendered":"

See attached document: Choose 1 of the questions below.<\/p>\n

Special Feature: Decolonial Ethics in Maritime Heritage Preservation: The Case of TMT in Hawai\u02bbi<\/p>\n

For marginalized communities in which the ocean represents the colonial imaginaries of slavery, dispossession and displacement, Karin Ingersoll (2016) contrasts sinking<\/em> and keeping afloat<\/em> to articulate the complex layer of navigation shrouded within a colonial context. To sink signifies an assimilative move that allows colonial constructions to frame one\u2019s reality. However, the ability to stay afloat signifies a mark of resistance employing the skills of navigation as an act of preservation. Staying afloat, in this sense, becomes an act of cultural survival.<\/p>\n

Despite the generative potentialities inherent in Indigenous voyaging cultures, the act of preservation may produce ethical dilemmas that are murky and difficult to navigate. In particular, the culture of voyaging is intimately tied to the colonial context of Mauna Kea and the controversial proposed construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. For many K\u0101naka Maoli cultural practitioners, Mauna Kea is seen as a sacred place inhabited by deities in the wao akua, the uppermost section encircling the peak and is viewed as the spiritual piko of the K\u0101naka Maoli. Mauna Kea is also the preferred site to study the night sky because of the mountain\u02bbs location in the Pacific Ocean, which has the ideal conditions for viewing the stars with maximal clarity. The growing demand of building telescopes on Mauna Kea has been met with resistance and has resulted in an ongoing political and ethical contestation in managing activities (cultural and astronomical) on the mountain.<\/p>\n

The practice of studying the stars that have defined the discipline of astronomy have long been associated with many voyaging cultures. This history has been used to justify how voyaging cultures are closely tied to the colonial infrastructures and global industry of building telescopes on Mauna Kea. In fact, K\u0101lepa Baybayan, a respected master navigator of H\u014dk\u016ble\u02bba<\/em>, had argued before his recent passing that his perspective on Mauna Kea \u201cis based on a tradition of oceanic exploration and the legacy of people who left the safety of the coastline, sailed away, and in so doing discovered the stars.\u201d (https:\/\/dlnr.hawaii.gov\/mk\/files\/2016\/10\/WDT-Baybayan-C.pdf<\/a>). He links this tradition of oceanic voyaging to his own support for the construction of the TMT as the telescope will \u201cwith greater accuracy and speed, vastly increase the capacity for the kind of scientific research that is vital to the quest for mankind\u02bbs future.\u201d He supports the construction of the TMT conceiving the astronomical discoveries as logically connected to the revitalization efforts to preserve maritime heritage. He writes: \u201cOur ancestors were no different; they sought knowledge from their environment, including the stars, to guide them and to give them a better understanding of the universe that surrounded them…[The science of astronomy] teaches us where we have come from, and where we are going. Its impact has been positive, introducing the young to the process of modern exploration and discovery, a process consistent with past traditional practices.\u201d Staying afloat in this strategy understands Hawaiian maritime heritage preservation linked to advancing modern scientific astronomical discoveries.<\/p>\n

However, Emmalani Case (2021) argues that cultural revitalization projects in voyaging cultures may lead to re-producing colonial power relations rather that resisting them. Case challenges a voyaging future that is rooted within the colonial histories of astronomy. Based on her research with a group of k\u0101lai wa\u02bba, or canoe builders, of Mauloa<\/em>, a twenty-six foot outrigger wa\u02bba built from natural materials using traditional methods, she interviewed many of the members of the canoe\u02bbs collective. Part of the collective\u02bbs mission is to contribute to the Hawaiian revitalization of traditional methods of navigation in the Pacific. Case emphasizes that the history of Mauloa<\/em> is intimately tied to Mauna Kea. Consistent with Baybayan\u02bbs recognition of the stones that fabricated the adze to carve the canoes came from the quarry of Mauna Kea, Case notes, \u201cThe canoe builders generally agree that the life of any canoe begins in the uplands, where the materials necessary to build it come from\u201d (67). While many of the k\u0101lai wa\u02bba are also kia\u02bbi, protectors, of Mauna Kea, she recognizes that this view is not universally held by many of the K\u0101naka Maoli voyaging cultures. When voyaging cultures become so tied to Hawaiian cultural revitalization such that \u201call the research and writing about wa\u02bba in Hawai\u02bbi is generative, empowering and useful, it can also begin to lock us into particular framings, shaping what is and isn\u02bbt acceptable in society\u201d (75). Opposed to other cultural revitalization efforts, such as Hale Kukukia\u02bbimauna and the ahu on Mauna Kea, which was destroyed by the State, according to Case, the function of the wa\u02bba is perceived as non-threatening, \u201cas long as it stands as a symbol of the past, in other words, it cannot disrupt visions of a non-Indigneous future, or settler futurities\u201d (74). In response to some K\u0101naka Maoli supporters of the TMT to \u201cshare the mountain,\u201d Case argues that these arguments fail to envision an Indigenous-centered future and instead supports a settler futurity in which settler desires are enabled to \u201cendure and prosper\u201d (79). Staying afloat in this strategy understands Hawaiian maritime heritage preservation linked to the cultural preservation resistance on Mauna Kea.<\/p>\n

In summary, cultural survival through maritime heritage preservation generates distinct and opposing ethical actions in relationship to supporting or resisting the TMT on Mauna Kea.<\/p>\n

Discussion: Provide reasons for your answers. ( Choose one below to write essay about)<\/p>\n

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  1. How might you understand the role of building the TMT on Mauna Kea in either fostering voyaging traditions or suppressing them?<\/li>\n
  2. How might you understand the role of the resistance effort comprised of many Native Hawaiians who value voyaging traditions, such as some of the members of the crew of Mauloa<\/em>?<\/li>\n
  3. Evaluate K\u0101lepa Baybayan\u2019s reasons to support the construction of the TMT. If endeavours to support the advancement of astronomical knowledge are linked to perpetuating Hawaiian navigation culture, is there a moral responsibility to support the construction of TMT?<\/li>\n
  4. If voyaging cultures are tied to other Indigenous practices, such as prayer, ritual and ceremonies on Mauna Kea, then what is the moral responsibility of voyaging cultures in responding to these nested and overlapping Indigenous practices whose aims may be interpreted to be in conflict with each other?<\/li>\n
  5. In what ways can Mauna Kea be shared with astronomy and cultural practitioners? Given the strong association of Mauna Kea as a sacred place, can the mountain ever be shared with astronomers?<\/li>\n
  6. Evaluate Case\u02bbs argument that the function of the wa\u02bba is perceived as \u201cnon-threatening.\u201d What does she mean here?<\/li>\n
  7. The wa\u02bba is much about reclaiming the past that was lost due to colonial suppression, but how might the effort of reclaiming a past inform an ethical future for Native Hawaiian sovereignty?<\/li>\n
  8. In what ways does the colonial context inform the ethical dilemma of preservation and cultural revitalization? Can either Baybayan\u02bbs or the kia\u02bbi\u02bbs conceptions of resistance (staying afloat), which aims at preserving Indigenous cultural practices, be viewed as moral failures?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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