UCLA

This thesis examines Kahuku Training Area on Oʻahu and Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauaʻi and the ways in which they are rendered invisible or hypervisible by the tourist destinations in close proximity to or within the bases. Utilizing archival research, mapping technologies like Google and Apple Maps, and YouTube videos, this thesis exposes the messy and hidden entanglements between the U.S. military, state government, and private actors that maintain the settler occupation in Hawaiʻi and imperialist efforts in the Pacific. Grounded by the scholarship of Kanaka ʻŌiwi scholars, this thesis highlights the ongoing resistance towards U.S. military occupation and suggests other methods of opposition through the operationalization of the glitch.