Settler garrison : debt imperialism, militarism, and transpacific imaginaries / Jodi Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Jodi, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military bases, American--Pacific Area.

Military bases, American.

Debts, Public--United States.

Debts, Public.

Imperialism.

Postcolonialism--Pacific Area.

Postcolonialism.

United States--Territorial expansion.

United States.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Pacific Area.

Pacific Area--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Pacific Area.

International economic relations.

Territorial expansion.

Physical Description:

260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Settler Garrison offers an analysis of how transpacific cultural productions provide an alternative, anti-militarist, and decolonial archive to U.S. militarist settler imperialism in Asia and the Pacific. Focusing on the post-World War II era, Jodi Kim theorizes militarist settler imperialism as a set of relations significantly structured and continually reproduced through temporal and spatial exceptions. Kim argues that that the temporal exception is debt imperialism, a process through which the United States rolls over its significant national debt indefinitely and does not conform to the time of repayment that it imposes on others at multiple scales. The spatial exception is the creation of juridically ambiguous spaces where sovereignties at once proliferate, compete, and cancel one another out. Focusing on three types of spatial exceptions-the military base and attendant camp town, the POW camp, and the unincorporated territory or military colony of Guam-the book argues that such spaces are remade into America's settler garrison"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. US Exceptionalisms, Metapolitical Authory, and the Aesthetics of Settler Imperial Failure

Perverse temporalities : primitive accumulation and the settler colonial foundations of debt imperialism

The military base and camptown : seizing land "by bulldozer and bayonet" and the transpacific masculinist compact

The POW camp : waging psychological warfare and a new settler frontier

The unincorporated territory : constituting indefinite deferral and "no page is ever terra nullius"

Epilogue. Climate Change, Climate Debt, Climate Imperialism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kim, Jodi, 1970- Settler garrison.

ISBN:

9781478015680

1478015683

9781478018315

1478018313

OCLC:

1260292346