What shave ice teaches us about refreshment, race, coloniasm and body politics.

Dr. Hi’ilei Hobart is the author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (forthcoming). She is a Professor at the University of Texas at Austin and examines the intersections of temperature, taste, and settler colonialism in Oceania. Dr. Hobart is interested in how personal and political investments in coldness facilitate ideas about race, belonging, comfort, and leisure in the Pacific.