Isaiah Helekunihi Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5528587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isaiah Helekunihi Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isaiah Helekunihi |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER I H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University–Hawaii |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Waves of Resistance
Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai'i for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalization on land, many Native Hawaiians have found refuge, autonomy, and identity in the waves. In Waves of Resistance Isaiah Walker argues that throughout the twentieth century Hawaiian surfers have successfully resisted colonial encroachment in the po'ina nalu (surf zone). The struggle against foreign dom…
Empire in Waves
Surfing draws wave riders for the natural and pleasurable feeling (which only a surfer knows) of transcendence and escape from the world and all its problems. But as Scott Laderman reminds us, surf
Hui Nalu, Beachboys, and the Surfing Boarder-lands of Hawai'i
In this article I argue that the Hawaiian conceptual, cultural, and physical space called po'ina nalu (surf zone) was a borderland (or boarder-land) where colonial hegemony was less effectual and Hawaiian resistance continuous. Through the history of Hawaiian surfing clubs, specifically the Hui Nalu and the Waikīkī beachboys, Hawaiian male surfers both subverted colonial discourses—discourses that represented most Hawaiian men as passive, unmanly…
Terrorism or Native Protest
In the mid-1970s a Native Hawaiian surfing group called the Hui 'O He'e Nalu protested a burgeoning professional surfing industry that threatened a Hawaiian cultural sanctuary on O'ahu's North Shore. Popular media have since portrayed the Hui as a group of unruly, savage-like Native troublemakers, but oral history interviews with Hui members reveal that they had clear anti-colonial objectives. This article examines why their objectives were not s…
Terrorism or Native Protest
In the mid-1970s a Native Hawaiian surfing group called the Hui 'O He'e Nalu protested a burgeoning professional surfing industry that threatened a Hawaiian cultural sanctuary on O'ahu's North Shore. Popular media have since portrayed the Hui as a group of unruly, savage-like Native troublemakers, but oral history interviews with Hui members reveal that they had clear anti-colonial objectives. This article examines why their objectives were not s…
Terrorism or Native Protest
In the mid-1970s a Native Hawaiian surfing group called the Hui 'O He'e Nalu protested a burgeoning professional surfing industry that threatened a Hawaiian cultural sanctuary on O'ahu's North Shore. Popular media have since portrayed the Hui as a group of unruly, savage-like Native troublemakers, but oral history interviews with Hui members reveal that they had clear anti-colonial objectives. This article examines why their objectives were not s…
Hui Nalu, Beachboys, and the Surfing Boarder-lands of Hawai'i
In this article I argue that the Hawaiian conceptual, cultural, and physical space called po'ina nalu (surf zone) was a borderland (or boarder-land) where colonial hegemony was less effectual and Hawaiian resistance continuous. Through the history of Hawaiian surfing clubs, specifically the Hui Nalu and the Waikīkī beachboys, Hawaiian male surfers both subverted colonial discourses—discourses that represented most Hawaiian men as passive, unmanly…
Empire in Waves
Surfing draws wave riders for the natural and pleasurable feeling (which only a surfer knows) of transcendence and escape from the world and all its problems. But as Scott Laderman reminds us, surf
Waves of Resistance
Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawai'i for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalization on land, many Native Hawaiians have found refuge, autonomy, and identity in the waves. In Waves of Resistance Isaiah Walker argues that throughout the twentieth century Hawaiian surfers have successfully resisted colonial encroachment in the po'ina nalu (surf zone). The struggle against foreign dom…
History (4 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works)