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Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jodi KimPublish date:2022-05-20Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478018315ISBN-10:1478018313UPC:9781478018315Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:World, Ethnic Studies, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCYWTPQR6J
In Settler Garrison Jodi Kim theorizes how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler imperialism that is leveraged on debt as a manifold economic and cultural relation undergirded by asymmetries of power. Kim demonstrates that despite being the largest debtor nation in the world, the United States positions itself as an imperial creditor that imposes financial and affective indebtedness alongside a disciplinary payback temporality even as it evades repayment of its own debts. This debt imperialism is violently reproduced in juridically ambiguous spaces Kim calls the "settler garrison" a colonial archipelago of distinct yet linked military camptowns, bases, POW camps, and unincorporated territories situated across the Pacific from South Korea to Okinawa to Guam. Kim reveals this process through an analysis of how a wide array of transpacific cultural productions creates antimilitarist and decolonial imaginaries that diagnose US militarist settler imperialism while envisioning alternatives to it.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9781478018315ISBN-10:1478018313UPC:9781478018315Book Category:History, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:World, Ethnic Studies, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.56 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCYWTPQR6J
Jodi Kim is Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside; coeditor of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, also published by Duke University Press; and author of Ends of Empire: Asian American Critique and the Cold War.
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