Tag: indigenous epistemology

• Complicit in colonial crimes

  

  The more I thought about it this weekend, the more it became clearer, I had just barely saved a disastrous situation that may have a had a domino effect on any of my further work. That student newspaper article I mentioned in the previous media bias post, it was a train-wreck that had my name…

  KarinIsSharing

  January 17, 2016

  Aloha Aina, Germany, Hawai’i

  aloha aina, Colonialism, illegal occupation, indigenous epistemology, Mauna Kea, respect, solidarity

• Facing Future – Reclaiming Past

  

  “If just for a day our king and queen Would visit all these islands and saw everything How would they feel about the changes of our land Could you just imagine if they were around And saw highways on their sacred grounds How would they feel about this modern city life? Tears would come from…

  KarinIsSharing

  October 19, 2015

  Aloha Aina, Hawai’i

  aloha aina, Colonialism, cultural trauma, indigenous epistemology, Mauna Kea, progress, Sovereignty

• Reflections on 5 weeks in Hawai’i

  And now … back in Berlin. Down to freezing point on some days this week, missing my brand-new gloves I bought in August, but with a second-hand cozy jacket bought on my first day back. Since my jet lag wasn’t over as fast as I thought it was the first 3 days, I was up…

  KarinIsSharing

  October 16, 2015

  Aloha Aina, Hawai’i

  aloha aina, Decolonize, diversity, indigenous epistemology, Mauna Kea, Sovereignty, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

• Q&A on IMPOLITIKAL from August 3, 2015

  Q&A | Karin Louise Hermes on Why Hawaiians are Protesting a 30M Telescope Finally finding the time to repost the Q&A Evelyn Marsters did with me in late July on my insider/outsider role in the #WeAreMaunaKea movement. On July 31, 7 people were arrested during an around-the-clock vigil opposing the planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) astronomical observatory…

  KarinIsSharing

  September 8, 2015

  Aloha Aina, Astronomy

  aloha aina, Astronomy, indigenous epistemology, Mauna Kea, progress, Rights, TMT

• My comment to “Mauna Kea construction should not be obstructed” from Ka Leo 7/5/2015

  July 5 at 8:11pm “Most people of Hawai‘i wouldn’t want that.” Who are you to speak on behalf of the people of Hawai’i, Pavel? What is the spirit of Aloha in your opinion, if the protectors are not embodying it, but the TMT is? You should recognize the difference in giving an opinion piece as…

  KarinIsSharing

  July 7, 2015

  Aloha Aina, Astronomy, Hawai’i

  haole, indigenous epistemology, Ka Leo, Mauna Kea, respect, settler colonialism, University of Hawai’i at Manoa