Indigeneity, sovereignty, sustainability and cultural tourism: hosts and hostages at ʻIolani Palace, Hawai'i
研究夏威夷伊奥拉尼宫从君主制到殖民占领再到遗产地的历史，分析旅游业如何利用待客之道掩盖殖民掠夺，并探讨原住民如何通过替代性旅游实践重建主权与批判性空间。
This article focuses on the historical events of dispossession and overthrow in Hawai'i from the mid/late nineteenth century onwards, and contemporary movements, interpretations and acts for Native Hawaiian sovereignty centered around ‘Iolani Palace on the island of O'ahu. Formerly the seat of the Hawaiian monarchy, then the capitol building of an overthrowing power and an occupying state, and now a heritage site, ‘Iolani Palace operates as a metonym for how notions of hospitality were leveraged in the service of a colonial theft. The discussion explores the role of tourism's growth, style and relationship with the evolving cultural politics of the Hawai'i archipelago. We use a site-specific exploration of this history to theorize what Jacques Derrida has described as the impossibility of hospitality in a colonial context. Furthermore, we show how aloha – a concept that has been overwhelmingly commodified by Hawaii's tourism industry – can be a means to theorize a hospitality that is reciprocal rather than unconditional – and how this plays out through alternative tours and acts that attempt to re-establish moments of critique and sovereignty at the very site of overthrow. Finally, we gesture to sustainability as a socio-political concept tied to Indigenous sovereignty, rather than a mostly eco-cultural one.