(Re)Playing Decolonization Through Pele, Aloha’Oe and Indigenous Knowledge

Umangay, Umar Keoni

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-25549-1_6

Umar Keoni Umangay²

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Abstract

This chapter explores the phenomenology of play and performance through the lens of decolonization. Play demands a conceptual scheme of the self that is commanding, active and transforming. Through decolonization, play becomes an opportunity for remaking the body in, through and for teacher education in Western, Northern and settler society.

To control the conceptual scheme is thus to command one’s world. (D.T. Goldberg [1], p. 9)

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Notes

1.
In terms of this chapter, play is defined as the participation, enjoyment, and engagement in [social] imagination.
2.
Said [2], p. 32.
3.
Butler [3], p. 165.
4.
English translation meaning chants.
5.
Braidotti [4].
6.
Deleuze and Guattari [5].
7.
Emerson [6], pp. 186–197.
8.
To listen to the mele ˆQueen Lili’uokalani – Aloha’Oe, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1bIxMYPlas and to view the translated lyrics at Lili’uokalani. “Aloha’Oe.” HUAPALA Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives. Accessed June 25, 2014. http://www.huapala.org/Aloha/Aloha_Oe.html
9.
Braidotti [4], pp. 28/91.
10.
English translation meaning family.
11.
Emerson [6], p, 136.
12.
Emerson [6], p. 136.
13.
In connection to “lines of desire” where the I interpret indigenous identity moving from the molar formation and engaging towards another play of different set of rules and imaginations. Refer to Deleuze and Guattari [5].
14.
In connection to “primary task for posthuman critical theory therefore is to draw accurate and precise cartographies for these different subject positions as spring-boards toward Posthuman recompositions of a pan-human cosmopolitan bond.” Braidotti [4], pp. 38/40.
15.
Refer to Smith’s Everyday World as Problematic, 1991, as the main text troubles the local experience towards generalized and totalising features of social relations.
16.
Deleuze and Guattari [7], p. 430.
17.
Emerson [6], p. 187.
18.
Braidotti [4], Introduction, pp. 20/24.
19.
Emerson [6], p. 195.
20.
Emerson [6], p. 197.
21.
Emerson [6], p. 187.
22.
This also has resonance to Deleuze-Guattarian molar machines. The decolonised body becomes a whole body of the indigenous formed by the indigenous, rather than the sum of constructed parts from the colonizer.
23.
Perhaps this is a version Deleuze-Guattari’s molar body with an invariant indigenous identity as female.
24.
Emerson [6], p. 187.
25.
Emerson [6], p. 196.
26.
English translation for sacred.
27.
Emerson [6], footnotes, p. 197.
28.
English translation for code of conduct.
29.
Fanon [8], p. 94.
30.
Braidotti [4], Chap. 2, pp. 54/74.
31.
For actual words to the mele, refer to Lili’uokalani. “Aloha’Oe.” HUAPALA Hawaiian Music and Hula Archives. Accessed June 25, 2014. http://www.huapala.org/Aloha/Aloha_Oe.html.
32.
Braidotti [4], pp. 38/40.
33.
Braidotti [4], pp. 68/91.
34.
Deleuze and Guattari [7], p. 430.
35.
Emerson [6], pp. 188–187.
36.
Braidotti [4], Critical Posthumanism, pp. 78/91.
37.
Emerson [6], p. 197.
38.
Sefa Dei [9].
39.
Goldberg [1], p. 13.
40.
Adapting and intersecting with posthuman qualitative shift and “what exactly is the basic unit of common reference for our species, our polity and our relationship to other inhabitants of this planet” Braidotti [4], Introduction, Para. 2.

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Umangay, U.K. (2016). (Re)Playing Decolonization Through Pele, Aloha’Oe and Indigenous Knowledge. In: Brabazon, T. (eds) Play: A Theory of Learning and Change. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25549-1_6

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