Key Themes & Questions

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Please respond by Sat., Oct. 5th

This is a current list of themes and questions derived from each Subject Area Team discussion thus far. Please cut and paste this list in a reply and...

1) Add themes or questions

2) Remove or consolidate themes and questions

3) Consider this a starting point for mapping out what you consider to be the Key Themes & Questions for this subject area.

(Notice I aligned questions next to the best matching theme. You can do the same, but later on we'll work on finding the multiple linkages.)

Alternatively, I have attached an Excel spreadsheet that has all the Key Themes & Questions for each group if you'd like to edit that and reattach as a reply for everyone to see.

Key Themes	Key Questions
Consumer citizens
Cross cultural engagement
Rhetoric of sustainability	How has the Hawaiian language/rhetoric been exploded?
Mobilization of community
Involvement of all local stakeholder groups
Historical use and implications of land and water
Indigenous access	What was indigenous land system?
	Can we go back to the way it was?
	What are modern constraints on indigenous food production
Sacred sites (land, water, environments)	Are certain traditional rights (proper ceremonial sites) being respected?
GMOs
Corporate control	What does our distribution network look like?
Agrotourism
Tropical foods
Traditional knowledge	What are traditional fishing practices (kapu system)?
	Can fishponds provide a furture form of sustaiable aquaculture?
	What are examples of self-sufficienct food systems for a specific population?
Knowledge systems	What knoweldge systems have been used in Hawaii to fish and cultivate food?
Decolonizing diets/gastrocolonialism
Food systems	What was the indigenous food system in Hawaii?
Cultural practices	Has land changed in a way that prohibits indigenous practies?
Ownership/land rights	What role does gender play in land ownership in Hawaii?
	What roles does gender play in food production  in Hawaii?
Development	How does the Public Land Development Corporation talk about development?
	What is the discourse of development?
	What is relationship between residential development and agriculture?
UH Cooperative Extension
Hawaii energy issues
Clean water
Sustainability	What role does sport fishing play?
Identity Politics	What identities already exist in food, foarming, consumption and sustainabilty?
Government Control	How does merchant Marine Act of 1920 affect food distribution in Hawaii?

[Kelsey Amos]

Hey everyone,

Here is my quickest, best attempt at reorganizing Cheryl's list. I tried to think about what everyone's interests were at the meeting, but also think about what a culture & politics group should cover. I deleted some items, changed some, and added questions to certain areas. Right now there are 5 unnamed major areas: identity & food production, rhetoric of sustainability, ownership/land rights, GMOs, and traditional knowledge now.

I tried to frame questions in terms of what a culture & politics group would legitimately be able to ask. For example, rather than asking "Are GMOs bad for Hawai'i?" I tried to write questions that ask instead about what arguments have been made against GMOs, what is the context of these arguments, how can we historicize these arguments, etc. We aren't the scientists; we're the people analyzing context, culture, representation, agency, power etc. 

Some of the other questions might need to be revised in this way, but I felt like that would be better done by people who are interested in those areas, so that's why some of the questions on this list are still in that mode. 

Let me know what you guys think!

Kelsey

Key Themes	Key Questions
Identity and food production

Consumer citizens Cross cultural engagement

Involvement of all local stakeholder groups Decolonizing diets/gastrocolonialism Activism Plantation history Hawaiian Identity and Haloa	What identities already exist in food, farming, consumption and sustainability? What attitudes to people have toward production and local agriculture? What activist groups and stakeholders exist and how do they represent their goals? How has Hawai‘i’s plantation history affected attitudes toward sustainability and agriculture? How does food intersect with ethnic identity in Hawai‘i? How are efforts at food self-sufficiency related to Hawaiian sovereignty struggles and other decolonizing efforts? What role does consumerism play in determining attitudes toward food self-sufficiency?
Rhetoric of sustainability Mobilization of community Development	How has the Hawaiian language/rhetoric about sustainability been exploited?

What is the discourse of development? How does the Public Land Development Corporation talk about development? What is relationship between residential development and agriculture?

In what instances have sustainability rhetorics been ethical and effective?
Ownership/land rights Trust lands Bishop estate lands

Historical use and implications of land and water Indigenous access

Sacred sites

Who owns land in Hawai‘i? What motivates the decisions about use made by these landholders?

What role does gender play in land ownership in Hawaii?

How does merchant Marine Act of 1920 affect food distribution in Hawaii? Are certain traditional rights being respected? What is the legal framework for traditional access rights? Are lands held in trust being uses appropriately?
GMOs Ag Corporations in Hawai‘i	What is the specific, historicized, contextualized, argument against GMOs in Hawai‘i? Is there historical continuity between industrial agriculture in the past (sugar, pineapple) and present (GMO seed)? How have activists articulated their stance against GMOs?
Traditional knowledge now Cultural practices Food systems Tropical Foods UH Cooperative Extension Clean Water Sustainability Agrotourism	Has land changed in a way that prohibits indigenous practices? Can fishponds provide a future form of sustainable aquaculture? In what ways have traditional agricultural systems transitioned into functioning in modern society? What knowledge systems have been used in Hawai‘I to fish and cultivate? What are traditional fishing practices? What was the indigenous food system in Hawai‘i? What alternative/traditional distribution networks exist? What are modern constraints on indigenous food production?

What roles does gender play in food production in Hawaii?

What role does sport fishing play? What efforts have already been made at developing agrotourism in Hawai‘i? Can culturally grounded agrotourism be a part of a healthy traditional agricultural system?

 

 

 

 

[Kelsey Amos]

Thinking about this further, I have a question about sources:

I have a feeling that for a lot of these topics, there might not be secondary literature available--for example, I doubt anyone has written an academic paper about rhetoric used to justify the PLDC. In this case, it becomes our job to simply note the absence of such scholarship and log it as an opportunity for further research.

But could we also, in putting together our annotated bibliographies, include primary literature and in our annotation provide quick commentary on what we think would be the use of this lit? For example, the intro of a bill related to the PLDC might be useful as it demonstrates some of that rhetoric. I know this would be verging on the edge of doing our own scholarship, which is not the goal, but it also seems like this kind of resource gathering would be useful for the next wave of grad students who are supposed to do their own scholarship to fill in the gaps we note.

Kelsey

Kelsey Amos

Ph.D. candidate in English, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa

Lecturer, Hawaii Tokai International College

Managing Editor, Hawaiʻi Review, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa

Food Writer, INhonolulumag.com

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[Lianne Charlie]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for revising the list, Kelsey. It looks good to me.

After some contemplation and rudimentary research, I decided to change my topic--sorry I didn't let you guys know sooner--from research on Hawaiian traditional food systems to research on: The power of the home and community garden to support food self-sufficiency, specifically in urban settings. My bibliography includes research from global, American, and pacific perspectives, and it includes research on implementation, especially through the school system involving youth and school-based garden curriculum.

Thanks,
Lianne

On 30/09/2013 10:20 AM, Kelsey Amos wrote:

Hey everyone,

Here is my quickest, best attempt at reorganizing Cheryl's list. I tried to think about what everyone's interests were at the meeting, but also think about what a culture & politics group should cover. I deleted some items, changed some, and added questions to certain areas. Right now there are 5 unnamed major areas: identity & food production, rhetoric of sustainability, ownership/land rights, GMOs, and traditional knowledge now.

I tried to frame questions in terms of what a culture & politics group would legitimately be able to ask. For example, rather than asking "Are GMOs bad for Hawai'i?" I tried to write questions that ask instead about what arguments have been made against GMOs, what is the context of these arguments, how can we historicize these arguments, etc. We aren't the scientists; we're the people analyzing context, culture, representation, agency, power etc.�

Some of the other questions might need to be revised in this way, but I felt like that would be better done by people who are interested in those areas, so that's why some of the questions on this list are still in that mode.�

Let me know what you guys think!

Kelsey

Key Themes	Key Questions
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Identity and food production Consumer citizens Cross cultural engagement Involvement of all local stakeholder groups Decolonizing diets/gastrocolonialism Activism Plantation history Hawaiian Identity and Haloa

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What identities already exist in food, farming, consumption and sustainability? What attitudes to people have toward production and local agriculture? What activist groups and stakeholders exist and how do they represent their goals?

How has Hawai�i�s plantation history affected attitudes toward sustainability and agriculture? How does food intersect with ethnic identity in Hawai�i?

How are efforts at food self-sufficiency related to Hawaiian sovereignty struggles and other decolonizing efforts? What role does consumerism play in determining attitudes toward food self-sufficiency?

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Rhetoric of sustainability Mobilization of community Development

How has the Hawaiian language/rhetoric about sustainability been exploited? What is the discourse of development? How does the Public Land Development Corporation talk about development? What is relationship between residential development and agriculture? In what instances have sustainability rhetorics been ethical and effective?

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Ownership/land rights Trust lands Bishop estate lands Historical use and implications of land and water Indigenous access Sacred sites

Who owns land in Hawai�i?

What motivates the decisions about use made by these landholders? What role does gender play in land ownership in Hawaii? How does merchant Marine Act of 1920 affect food distribution in Hawaii? Are certain traditional rights being respected? What is the legal framework for traditional access rights? Are lands held in trust being uses appropriately?

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GMOs Ag Corporations in Hawai�i	What is the specific, historicized, contextualized, argument against GMOs in Hawai�i?

Is there historical continuity between industrial agriculture in the past (sugar, pineapple) and present (GMO seed)? How have activists articulated their stance against GMOs?

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Traditional knowledge now Cultural practices Food systems Tropical Foods UH Cooperative Extension Clean Water Sustainability Agrotourism

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Has land changed in a way that prohibits indigenous practices? Can fishponds provide a future form of sustainable aquaculture? In what ways have traditional agricultural systems transitioned into functioning in modern society?

What knowledge systems have been used in Hawai�I to fish and cultivate?

What are traditional fishing practices?

What was the indigenous food system in Hawai�i?

What alternative/traditional distribution networks exist? What are modern constraints on indigenous food production? What roles does gender play in food production in Hawaii? What role does sport fishing play?

What efforts have already been made at developing agrotourism in Hawai�i?

Can culturally grounded agrotourism be a part of a healthy traditional agricultural system?

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[ges...@hawaii.edu]

Thanks for taking another stab at that list! I am a data-driven number nerd, so I appreciate your analytic lens and I really look forward to learning from this group. Also thank you for highlighting that there is a gap in academic research about the PLDC. I have been trying to formulate what a HFPC TT Parking Lot would contain, and research pukas are exactly what should live here. For now, I will create a topic called "HFPC TT Parking Lot (gaps in existing research)!!!

Collecting primary literature for posterity is exactly what we should be doing. If you have specific examples, I created a sub-collection folder called "PLDC" in Zotero (I recommend downloading application). Please let me know if you hate Zotero. Building out the Politics + Culture folder is essentially this group's kuleana. The key themes & questions help us plan our garden bed, while the resources we add are the seeds we plant :) That being said, Kelsey, you may want to search the whole list of current resources (actual resources are sometimes not attached) for "Politics + Culture" to find literature that may inform y our question about identities.

[ges...@hawaii.edu]

Hi Lianne,

It sounds like this question can really pull from what you already know which is great. Can you please create a separate topic using the red NEW TOPIC button so people can comment on your specific question?

Thanks,

Cheryl

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[Sarah Greywolf]

Hi guys,

 Hope everyone is doing good.

Yea, same here,  Thank you Kelsey for re-organizing our list and sorted it out nicely. I really appreciate that.  As for me,  I'm still interested in searching more about GMO and its impact to local food production and  sustainable living as well as its health risk to Hawaii Community as whole. Basically I'm interested in  policy issues related to GMOs and  look into it with Politics and Cultures' point of view. I really  liked how Kelsey  tried  to elaborate GMO question  within our theme . My research will also contain scientific argument against GMO with emphasis on Hawaii anti-GMO activist groups, their positions and cases along with Hawaii general public perceptions and attitudes. I might look into Hawaii food import and export policies in relation with GMO as well. 

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[Geejay Milli]

Hi all,

Thank you for the clarification Kesley and Lianne! 

 

I have found numerous sources on the topic i was interested in, that is, Gender/women and food sufficiency/security. But most of the sources i found  focused on the Pacific and Asia. Hawaii, has passed the stage of 'developing' . As an American state, it faces very different situations to that of other Pacific nations in terms of how women relate/identify closely with the issue of food self sufficiency and food security/land/agriculture etc. 

I have thus, tweaked my point of view a little to look at  increase of migrant communities (esp from Micronesia and other groups) and how migration on a whole affects food self-sufficiency in Hawaii.

I'm not sure if  this topic already fits into the themes one of us has already undertaken, though. Please do let me know if so. I would really appreciate comments as well.

Best,

Gj 

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[Cheryl Geslani Scarton]

Hi Geejay, Sarah and the rest of the P + C team,

In addition to Hoku we have a great reviewer from NYU who has written about many of these issues in regards to Hawaii and the Pacific named Dean Saranillio. Next week around Oct 7th, we will invite them to make comments on your annotated bibliographies and the key themes and questions that will structure the group's outline.

To make it easy and visible for everyone please go to the P + C Subject Area page: https://groups.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/forum/#!forum/hfpc-tt_politics-and-culture-grp and Click the red New Topic button and make a separate string like Kelsey and Andrew so everyone can receive individual comments. I attached a screen shot of the page.

Thanks,

Cheryl Geslani
PhD Student/Graduate Researcher
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Department of Natural Resource and Environmental Management &

UHERO (University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization)

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[Aubrey Yee]

For what it's worth, here is a paper I wrote last spring about the PLDC, rhetoric around the whole concept of 'ceded lands', history of land tenure in Hawai'i etc.

Aloha, Aubrey

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[Cheryl Geslani Scarton]

Now this is collaborative research! We'll take all the nuggets we can get.

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