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Just Left of the Setting Sun: Indigenous Chamoru Essays on Colonialism and Self-Determination
Just Left of the Setting Sun is a collection of non-fiction essays by Julian Aguon, a young Chamoru scholar-activist from Guam. These essays examine the present-day reality of the indigenous Chamoru people navigating the complexities of colonial history and cultural survival.
About This Book
The collection addresses the contradictions of Guam's history: "freed from colonialism" by another colonial power in 1898, "liberated from wartime aggression" by a country that imposed Naval Administration until the 1960s, and subjected to forced assimilation and nominal citizenship. Aguon articulates the Chamoru experience as an indigenous Pacific Island culture, an American minority group, and an island people confronting globalization's impact on their lives.
Critical Themes Explored
These essays examine globalization, sustainable development, sustainable governance, cultural reclamation, and self-determination on Guam. Aguon questions the value of democracy when involuntarily imposed on a people, situating Native struggles for political and cultural sovereignty within feminist critiques and global movements for economic, social, and environmental justice.
Part of the 1898 Consciousness Studies Series
This book is included in Blue Ocean Press's academic series examining consciousness in areas affected by the Spanish-American War and subsequent U.S. possession, including The Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
Critical Acclaim
"Fierce and compassionate, bold and resolute, Just Left of the Setting Sun is at once a coming into consciousness as it is a conch-shell blare for action by and for a new generation of Chamorros, the indigenous people of an island and archipelago long colonized by Spain, Japan and the United States of America. As critical towards fellow Chamorros who aid and abet the colonizer as he is of the colonizers themselves, Aguon also importantly situates the need for Native Struggles for Political and Cultural Self-Determination and Sovereignty within Feminist/Womanist critiques and global struggles for economic, social, and environmental justice, thereby providing a glimpse into the possibilities for local struggle informed and articulated to global movements beyond pan-indigenous movements per se, and for keeping global movements and political theory grounded in Indigenous traditions." Vicente M. Diaz, Associate Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Aguon re-introduces us to the principles of international law as a guiding framework to the resolution of the dilemma brought about by the present non self-governing arrangements which provide the trappings of democratic governance, but in reality are rather democratically deficient by any objective examination. Indeed, an important component of new millennium colonialism is the existence, but not the recognition, of this democratic deficit... ..."Just Left of the Setting Sun" should be required reading for the people in the remaining territories, young and old, who need to discover/re-discover the fire within, that they might further move the process forward, if only by a few steps further along the continuum. In a very real sense, as Aguon observes, "inside the heart of the Chamoru is still an ocean of latent potentialities waiting to surge."" Dr. Carlyle Corbin, Advisor on Governance and Political Development, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
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Just Left of the Setting Sun: Indigenous Chamoru Essays on Colonialism and Self-Determination
Just Left of the Setting Sun is a collection of non-fiction essays by Julian Aguon, a young Chamoru scholar-activist from Guam. These essays examine the present-day reality of the indigenous Chamoru people navigating the complexities of colonial history and cultural survival.
About This Book
The collection addresses the contradictions of Guam's history: "freed from colonialism" by another colonial power in 1898, "liberated from wartime aggression" by a country that imposed Naval Administration until the 1960s, and subjected to forced assimilation and nominal citizenship. Aguon articulates the Chamoru experience as an indigenous Pacific Island culture, an American minority group, and an island people confronting globalization's impact on their lives.
Critical Themes Explored
These essays examine globalization, sustainable development, sustainable governance, cultural reclamation, and self-determination on Guam. Aguon questions the value of democracy when involuntarily imposed on a people, situating Native struggles for political and cultural sovereignty within feminist critiques and global movements for economic, social, and environmental justice.
Part of the 1898 Consciousness Studies Series
This book is included in Blue Ocean Press's academic series examining consciousness in areas affected by the Spanish-American War and subsequent U.S. possession, including The Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba.
Critical Acclaim
"Fierce and compassionate, bold and resolute, Just Left of the Setting Sun is at once a coming into consciousness as it is a conch-shell blare for action by and for a new generation of Chamorros, the indigenous people of an island and archipelago long colonized by Spain, Japan and the United States of America. As critical towards fellow Chamorros who aid and abet the colonizer as he is of the colonizers themselves, Aguon also importantly situates the need for Native Struggles for Political and Cultural Self-Determination and Sovereignty within Feminist/Womanist critiques and global struggles for economic, social, and environmental justice, thereby providing a glimpse into the possibilities for local struggle informed and articulated to global movements beyond pan-indigenous movements per se, and for keeping global movements and political theory grounded in Indigenous traditions." Vicente M. Diaz, Associate Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Aguon re-introduces us to the principles of international law as a guiding framework to the resolution of the dilemma brought about by the present non self-governing arrangements which provide the trappings of democratic governance, but in reality are rather democratically deficient by any objective examination. Indeed, an important component of new millennium colonialism is the existence, but not the recognition, of this democratic deficit... ..."Just Left of the Setting Sun" should be required reading for the people in the remaining territories, young and old, who need to discover/re-discover the fire within, that they might further move the process forward, if only by a few steps further along the continuum. In a very real sense, as Aguon observes, "inside the heart of the Chamoru is still an ocean of latent potentialities waiting to surge."" Dr. Carlyle Corbin, Advisor on Governance and Political Development, St. Croix, Virgin Islands
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