The fort surrounded: encountering lost geographies of ‘Pearl Harbor’

This photo essay investigates lost geographies of ‘Pearl Harbor’, the ‘fort’ invading the ʻāina momona – the abundant lands and waters – of Ke Awalau o Puʻuloa. The images reveal omissions, contradictions, and disruptions of mainstream understandings of ‘Pearl Harbor’ and highlight the vibrancy of kīpuka aloha ʻāina – spaces of Kanaka ʻŌiwi emergence and alterity. These images also attend to the feral and fugitive forms of life – human and other-than-human – that survive and even thrive in the borderlands of this U.S. military base.