Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Elements) (Paperback)

Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Elements) By Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopul Hobart Cover Image
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Beginning in the mid-1800s, Americans hauled frozen pond water, then glacial ice, and then ice machines to Hawaiʻi--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 Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart charts the social history of ice in Hawaiʻi 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 Hawaiʻi'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 Hawaiʻi and beyond.

Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient.

About the Author


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.
Product Details
ISBN: 9781478019190
ISBN-10: 1478019190
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Date: December 16th, 2022
Pages: 264
Language: English
Series: Elements