H Hobart
Biographic Data
| ID | 6760528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Hobart |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Hobart |
| SIGNATURE | HOBART H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indigenous placemaking amidst settler colonial leisure
Ocean Passages
Reviewed by: Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures by Erin Suzuki Hi'ilei Julia Hobart (bio) Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures by Erin Suzuki Temple University Press, 2021 AT ITS HEART, Erin Suzuki's Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures asks us to read the Pacific through an ethics of relationality by bringing Asian, Asian American,…
At Home on the Mauna
At Home on the Mauna: Ecological Violence and Fantasies of Terra Nullius on Maunakea’s Summit Hi’ilei Julia Hobart (bio) it was the middle of summer in Hawai‘i, and snow was falling on the summit of Maunakea.1 Screen grabs taken from webcams bolted to the exteriors of the powerful telescopes that stand sentinel up there showed the unseasonal blanket of white that drifted down from the sky on July 17, 2015.2 One view, taken from the vantage of the…
On racial constitutions and digestive therapeutics
This dialogic piece includes two case studies examining how racial difference figures in digestion, health, and assimilation through the digestive tract. Each study – of Taroena and fecal microbiota transplants – involves turning once undesirable/abject substances into therapeutic health products and promissory futures. Both essays explore the extractive nature of colonial encounters – of locating resources (foodstuffs or fecal matter) in Indigen…
A “Queer-Looking Compound”
The ecological, cosmological, and genealogic meanings of kalo (taro) and the foods made from it bind the practice of eating poi, an important traditional staple food, to both material and cultural concepts of Hawaiian identity. During the nineteenth century, the taste of foods like poi became a subject of debate among newcomers to the archipelago, who used the language of disgust, queerness, and civility to distinguish Euro-American whiteness fro…
Local’
Within contemporary concerns about the overall health of the US food system, the “local” has emerged as a key concept for strengthening sustainability, community, and access to affordable and fresh foods. For Hawai‘i, the local is more than a geographic category; it is also a core identity by which its residents mark their relationship to place. This double use of localism thereby underlines the personal—and political—stakes of “eating local” in …
Snowy Mountaineers and Soda Waters
In 1850, Honolulu received its first shipment of cold, clear ice for public sale. Used to chill cocktails and other refreshments, comestible coldness underwent a process of intense meaning-making that reflected the discourses concerning race and civility that played out across Hawai‘i’s growing urban environment. This article analyzes the political and social dimensions of ice’s introduction to Honolulu in order to show how taste, and particularl…
On racial constitutions and digestive therapeutics
This dialogic piece includes two case studies examining how racial difference figures in digestion, health, and assimilation through the digestive tract. Each study – of Taroena and fecal microbiota transplants – involves turning once undesirable/abject substances into therapeutic health products and promissory futures. Both essays explore the extractive nature of colonial encounters – of locating resources (foodstuffs or fecal matter) in Indigen…
Local’
Within contemporary concerns about the overall health of the US food system, the “local” has emerged as a key concept for strengthening sustainability, community, and access to affordable and fresh foods. For Hawai‘i, the local is more than a geographic category; it is also a core identity by which its residents mark their relationship to place. This double use of localism thereby underlines the personal—and political—stakes of “eating local” in …
Snowy Mountaineers and Soda Waters
In 1850, Honolulu received its first shipment of cold, clear ice for public sale. Used to chill cocktails and other refreshments, comestible coldness underwent a process of intense meaning-making that reflected the discourses concerning race and civility that played out across Hawai‘i’s growing urban environment. This article analyzes the political and social dimensions of ice’s introduction to Honolulu in order to show how taste, and particularl…
A “Queer-Looking Compound”
The ecological, cosmological, and genealogic meanings of kalo (taro) and the foods made from it bind the practice of eating poi, an important traditional staple food, to both material and cultural concepts of Hawaiian identity. During the nineteenth century, the taste of foods like poi became a subject of debate among newcomers to the archipelago, who used the language of disgust, queerness, and civility to distinguish Euro-American whiteness fro…
Local’
Within contemporary concerns about the overall health of the US food system, the “local” has emerged as a key concept for strengthening sustainability, community, and access to affordable and fresh foods. For Hawai‘i, the local is more than a geographic category; it is also a core identity by which its residents mark their relationship to place. This double use of localism thereby underlines the personal—and political—stakes of “eating local” in …
Snowy Mountaineers and Soda Waters
In 1850, Honolulu received its first shipment of cold, clear ice for public sale. Used to chill cocktails and other refreshments, comestible coldness underwent a process of intense meaning-making that reflected the discourses concerning race and civility that played out across Hawai‘i’s growing urban environment. This article analyzes the political and social dimensions of ice’s introduction to Honolulu in order to show how taste, and particularl…
A “Queer-Looking Compound”
The ecological, cosmological, and genealogic meanings of kalo (taro) and the foods made from it bind the practice of eating poi, an important traditional staple food, to both material and cultural concepts of Hawaiian identity. During the nineteenth century, the taste of foods like poi became a subject of debate among newcomers to the archipelago, who used the language of disgust, queerness, and civility to distinguish Euro-American whiteness fro…
At Home on the Mauna
At Home on the Mauna: Ecological Violence and Fantasies of Terra Nullius on Maunakea’s Summit Hi’ilei Julia Hobart (bio) it was the middle of summer in Hawai‘i, and snow was falling on the summit of Maunakea.1 Screen grabs taken from webcams bolted to the exteriors of the powerful telescopes that stand sentinel up there showed the unseasonal blanket of white that drifted down from the sky on July 17, 2015.2 One view, taken from the vantage of the…
On racial constitutions and digestive therapeutics
This dialogic piece includes two case studies examining how racial difference figures in digestion, health, and assimilation through the digestive tract. Each study – of Taroena and fecal microbiota transplants – involves turning once undesirable/abject substances into therapeutic health products and promissory futures. Both essays explore the extractive nature of colonial encounters – of locating resources (foodstuffs or fecal matter) in Indigen…
Ocean Passages
Reviewed by: Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures by Erin Suzuki Hi'ilei Julia Hobart (bio) Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures by Erin Suzuki Temple University Press, 2021 AT ITS HEART, Erin Suzuki's Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American Literatures asks us to read the Pacific through an ethics of relationality by bringing Asian, Asian American,…
Indigenous placemaking amidst settler colonial leisure
Archaeology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Ethnology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)