Cooling the Tropics

Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

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English

Duke University Press
16 December 2022

Social & cultural history; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Mechanical engineering

Series: Elements

Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawai'i-all in an effort to reshape the islands in the service of Western pleasure and profit. Marketed as ""essential"" for white occupants of the nineteenth-century Pacific, ice quickly permeated the foodscape through advancements in freezing and refrigeration technologies. In Cooling the Tropics Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawai'i to show how the interlinked concepts of freshness and refreshment mark colonial relationships to the tropics. From chilled drinks and sweets to machinery, she shows how ice and refrigeration underpinned settler colonial ideas about race, environment, and the senses. By outlining how ice shaped Hawai'i's food system in accordance with racial and environmental imaginaries, Hobart demonstrates that thermal technologies can-and must-be attended to in struggles for food sovereignty and political self-determination in Hawai'i and beyond.

Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient

By: Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781478019190
ISBN 10: 1478019190
Series: Elements
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 16 December 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart is Assistant Professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University and editor of The Foodways of Hawaiʻi: Past and Present.

Reviews for Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment

"""Cooling the Tropics offers a compelling model for future research focused on the simultaneously sensorial, biopolitical, and ecological implications of colonialism’s thermal infrastructures."" -- Hsuan L. Hsu * The Senses and Society * ""Fascinating and thoughtful. . . . Recommended. General readers and advanced undergraduates through faculty."" -- F. Ng * Choice * “Cooling the Tropics is well worth reading. … With many revealing and fascinating examples, [Hobart] tells an engaging story of the American colonisation of Hawaii that is open, unfixed and challengeable.” -- Helene Brembeck * Review of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Studies *"