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Fojas, Camilla; Guevarra, Rudy P.; Sharma, Nitasha Tamar

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“…One is prominent in the formal and the other in the informal systems of community life. The first of these cultural codes, identified by the acronym DIE (Domination, Individualism, and Exclusion; Laenui, 1997b), is emblematic of the Americanized social order in the Hawai‘i islands as a multiethnic colony (Baumhofer & Yamane, 2019; Fojas et al, 2018; Fujikane & Okamura, 2008; Irwin & Umemoto, 2016; Kaholokula et al, 2020). Situated in Hawai‘i’s colonial history, American systems in Hawai‘i have been heavily reliant on Dominance (Americans of European descent commonly rejected the idea of non-white Hawaiian rule; see Kamakau, 1992; Kuykendall, 1947), Individualism (where self-promotion is the vehicle of success; self-interest is pursued at the expense of in-group and community welfare; and social prestige is tied to individual material wealth accumulation), and Exclusion (such as suppressing the Hawaiian language; influencing the democratic process by limiting voting rights to property owners and men; excluding Hawaiians from positions of administrative power and bureaucratic authority; and embracing mainstream institutions designed to serve non-Hawaiians)—henceforth referred to as DIE deep culture.…”

Section: Anticolonial Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hawaiian communities have attempted to disentangle the cultural strands of DIE choking the life domains of “urban planning and development,” education, health, income and wealth. Political disenfranchisement, acculturation stress, and ethnic marginality are correlates of Hawaiian identity positioned within a lower strata of society beset with indicators (poverty, unemployment) for qualitative distress associated with negative statistics and a higher overall risk burden for mental health problems (Baumhofer & Yamane, 2019; Fojas et al, 2018; Fujikane & Okamura, 2008; Irwin & Umemoto, 2016; Kaholokula et al, 2020). This Hawaiian cultural awakening has underscored questions and implications related to Native Hawaiian self-determination, independence, and sovereignty (Laenui, 1996).…”

Section: Anticolonial Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Colonial Regimes of Mental Health, Substance Use, Drug Treatment, and Recovery: A Locally Contextualized, Anticolonial Response

Laenui

Williams

2022

Contemporary Drug Problems

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Documented in this article is the anticolonial treatment modality developed by a community-based behavioral health center on the island of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i—situated in a predominately Native Hawaiian community reacting to and affected by American colonial control of the Hawaiian Islands since 1893. We tie Haraway’s concept of “situated knowledges” to the methodology of Clarke’s “situational analysis” as a conceptual framing and a methodological approach in engaging the work of decolonizing health concepts and treatment regimens commonly taken for granted. Enfolding within that process the conceptual mapping for an indigenously informed way of thinking that emphasizes the relationship between colonizing “systems of care”—which emerge out of a sociocultural context of cultural domination that has broken down communally embedded Indigenous identities through individualism and exclusion or othering (i.e., hereafter abbreviated DIE)—and the need for decolonizing social processes that are in greater harmony with the rise of Hawaiian national consciousness (‘Olu‘olu) through communalistic notions of care (Lokahi) and nurturing cultural identities in balance with secular and non-secular relations anchored in historical and contemporary contexts (Aloha; i.e., hereafter abbreviated OLA). By increasing the convergence of OLA with the cultural mainstream of DIE as a unifying reference point applied to other Hawaiian and indigenous groups in both theory and praxis, this article is both a contribution to the social science of treatment, and to the literature on decolonizing drugs and alcohol.

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Section: Anticolonial Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%