‘We’d rather eat rocks’: Contesting the Thirty Meter Telescope in a Struggle over Science and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i

‘We’d rather eat rocks’: Contesting the Thirty Meter Telescope in a Struggle over Science and Sovereignty in Hawai‘i

<p>The selection of the sacred summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi as the site for a Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) inaugurated a surge in activism against desecration of the mountain, particularly following a TMT groundbreaking ceremony in October 2014. Drawing on fieldwork I condu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aanchal Saraf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2020-07-01
Series:Journal of Transnational American Studies
Subjects:
mauna kea
hawaiian sovereignty
transnational indigenous studies
tmt
kanaka maoli activism
thirty meter telescope
transnational american studies
journal of transnational american studies
jtas
Online Access:http://escholarship.org/uc/item/70z6w502

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