Menter: Auf der Suche nach der Hawaiischen Nation, 2013.

Ulrich Menter: Auf der Suche nach der Hawaiischen Nation. Autonomiepolitik und kulturelle Revitalisierung im US-Bundesstaat Hawai‘i. Göttingen 2013 (zugleich Diss. Göttingen 2009).

The dissertation’s focus is on the analysis of the "Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement", a political movement of indigenous Hawaiians. Playing an important role during the 1990s (with the centennial of the overthrow celebrated in 1993) it demanded cultural and political self-determination for Native Hawaiians. Questions regarding the politicization of cultural processes as well as the culturalization and ethnicization of political or social conflicts receive special attention. Starting point of all discourses on autonomy or "sovereignty" is Hawai‘i’s political history of the 19th century. Due to the ever growing number of settlers Hawaiians soon became a minority on their own land (Source: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. eDiss, last access 14.12.2022).