"First Light is a study of Native Hawaiian resistance to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the summit of Mauna a Wåakea, the sacred volcano on the island of Hawai’i. Contextualizing the contemporary movement within the past 125 years of struggle against U.S. empire in Hawai’i, Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar challenges neoliberal environmental policy, settler multiculturalism, and military occupation to reinforce calls for a moratorium on new telescope development"-- Provided by publisher.