Ethnographies of U.S. empire / Carole McGranahan & John F. Collins, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McGranahan, Carole, editor.

Collins, John F., 1965 April 19- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Imperialism.

Postcolonialism.

Ethnicity--Political aspects--United States.

Ethnicity.

International relations.

History.

Ethnicity--Political aspects.

United States--Foreign relations--History.

United States.

Diplomatic relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 548 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Ethnographies of United States empire

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

How do we live in and with empire? The contributors to this book pursue this question by examining empire as an unequally shared present. Here empire stands as an entrenched, if often invisible, part of everyday life central to making and remaking a world in which it is too often presented as an aberration rather than as a structuring condition. This volume presents scholarship from across U.S. imperial formations: settler colonialism, overseas territories, communities impacted by U.S. military action of political intervention, Cold War alliances and fissures, and, most recently, new forms of U.S. empire after 9/11. From the Mohawk Nation, Korea, and the Philippines to Iraq and the hills of New Jersey, the contributors show how a methodological and theoretical commitment to ethnography sharpens all of our understandings of the novel and timeworn ways people live, thrive, and resist in the imperial present.

Contents:

Introduction : Ethnography and U.S. Empire / John F. Collins and Carole McGranahan

The "affects" of empire : (dis)trust among Osage annuitants / Jean Dennison

Milking the cow for all its worth : settler colonialism and the politics of imperialist resentment in Hawaiʻi / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui

Sovereignty, sympathy, and indigeneity / Audra Simpson

A school of addicts : the coloniality of addiction in Puerto Rico / Adriana María Garriga-López

Inhabiting the aporias of empire : protest politics in contemporary Puerto Rico / Melissa Rosario

Training for empire? : Samoa and American gridiron football / Fa'Anofo Lisaclaire Uperesa

Exceptionalism as a way of life : U.S. empire, Filipino subjectivity, and the global call center industry / Jan M. Padios

In their places : Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha

Shifting geographies of proximity : Korean-led Evangelical Christian missions and the U.S. Empire / Ju Hui Judy Han

Sites of the postcolonial Cold War / Heonik Kwon

Time standards and rhizomatic imperialism / Kevin K. Birth

Islands of imperialism : military bases and the ethnography of U.S. empire / David Vine

Domesticating the U.S. Air Force : the challenges of anti-military activism in Manta, Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry

The empire of choice and the emergence of military dissent / Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz

Locating landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Eleana Kim

Love and empire : the CIA, Tibet, and covert humanitarianism / Carole McGranahan

Trust us : Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the discursive economy of empire / Joe Bryan

Empire as accusation, denial, and structure : the social life of U.S. power at Brazil's Spaceport / Sean T. Mitchell

Radicalizing empire : youth and dissent in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maira

Deporting Cambodian refugees : youth activism, state reform, and imperial statecraft / Soo Ah Kwon

Hunters of the Sourlands : empire and displacement in Highland New Jersey / John F. Collins

From exception to empire : sovereignty, carceral circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" / Darryl Li

Afterword. Disassemblage : Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations / Ann Laura Stoler in conversation with Carole McGranahan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Ethnographies of U.S. empire.

ISBN:

9781478000099

1478000090

9781478000235

1478000236

OCLC:

1003734773