Duke University Press, 2018 Paper: 978-1-4780-0023-5 | eISBN: 978-1-4780-0208-6 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-0009-9 Library of Congress Classification GN316.E78 2018
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
How do we live in and with empire? The contributors to Ethnographies of U.S. Empire 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 or 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.
Contributors: Kevin K. Birth, Joe Bryan, John F. Collins, Jean Dennison, Erin Fitz-Henry, Adriana María Garriga-López, Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, Matthew Gutmann, Ju Hui Judy Han, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Eleana Kim, Heonik Kwon, Soo Ah Kwon, Darryl Li, Catherine Lutz, Sunaina Maira, Carole McGranahan, Sean T. Mitchell, Jan M. Padios, Melissa Rosario, Audra Simpson, Ann Laura Stoler, Lisa Uperesa, David Vine
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Carole McGranahan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War, also published by Duke University Press.
John F. Collins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy, also published by Duke University Press.
REVIEWS
"Ethnographies of U.S. Empire cover[s] myriad aspects of American life and history, from American conduct in dealing with indigenous peoples to the Iran-Contra conspiracy and the War on Terror. . . . The nearly 50-page bibliography offers a sturdy jumping-off point for further study. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty."
-- S.J. Zuber-Chall Choice
"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists."
-- Jana Kate Lipman Journal of American History
"Beyond the scholarship on specific themes or geographic areas, each chapter does an excellent job of locating the lived experiences in particular places within the overall context of empire. The book offers a strong refutation of the idea that postmodern empires are uniform or deterritorial. Its strength is the methodology of placing peoples’ ideas and actions within the wider context of global forces."
-- Lanny Thompson New West Indian Guide
"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists."
-- Jana Kate Lipman Journal of American History
"Engaging emerging, multidisciplinary conversations across anthropology, American studies, and postcolonial studies about how empire operates and endures, Ethnographies of U.S. Empire is a reflection both on empire and on ethnography. Together, the chapters make a case for ethnographic research as a way of studying empire, as a method that offers not a bounded or concise definition of what makes an empire, but rather an expansive sense of how people live with and within the imperial present."
-- Emma Shaw Crane Society & Space
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire / John F. Collins and Carole McGranahan 1 I. Settlement, Sentiment, Sovereignty 1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants / Jean Dennison 27 2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawaiʻi / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui 47 3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity / Audra Simpson 72 II. Colonialism by Any Other Name 4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico / Adriana María Garriga-López 93 5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico / Melissa Rosario 112 6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 129 7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry / Jan M. Padios 149 III. Temporality, Proximity, Dispersion 8. In Their Place: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha 173 9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire / Ju Hui Judy Han 194 10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War / Heonik Kwon 214 11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism / Kevin K. Birth 227 IV. Military Promises 12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire / David Vine 249 13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry 270 14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent / Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz 291 V. Residue, Rumors, Remnants 15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Eleana Kim 313 16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism / Carole McGranahan 333 17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire / Joe Bryan 350 18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport / Sean T. Mitchell 369 VI. 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Return of Empire 19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maria 391 20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft / Soo Ah Kwon 411 21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey / John F. Collins 431 22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" / Darryl Li 456 Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations / Ann Laura Stoler in conversation with Carole McGranahan 477 Bibliography 491 Contributors 539 Index 541
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Duke University Press, 2018 Paper: 978-1-4780-0023-5 eISBN: 978-1-4780-0208-6 Cloth: 978-1-4780-0009-9
How do we live in and with empire? The contributors to Ethnographies of U.S. Empire 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 or 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.
Contributors: Kevin K. Birth, Joe Bryan, John F. Collins, Jean Dennison, Erin Fitz-Henry, Adriana María Garriga-López, Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, Matthew Gutmann, Ju Hui Judy Han, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Eleana Kim, Heonik Kwon, Soo Ah Kwon, Darryl Li, Catherine Lutz, Sunaina Maira, Carole McGranahan, Sean T. Mitchell, Jan M. Padios, Melissa Rosario, Audra Simpson, Ann Laura Stoler, Lisa Uperesa, David Vine
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Carole McGranahan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War, also published by Duke University Press.
John F. Collins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy, also published by Duke University Press.
REVIEWS
"Ethnographies of U.S. Empire cover[s] myriad aspects of American life and history, from American conduct in dealing with indigenous peoples to the Iran-Contra conspiracy and the War on Terror. . . . The nearly 50-page bibliography offers a sturdy jumping-off point for further study. . . . Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty."
-- S.J. Zuber-Chall Choice
"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists."
-- Jana Kate Lipman Journal of American History
"Beyond the scholarship on specific themes or geographic areas, each chapter does an excellent job of locating the lived experiences in particular places within the overall context of empire. The book offers a strong refutation of the idea that postmodern empires are uniform or deterritorial. Its strength is the methodology of placing peoples’ ideas and actions within the wider context of global forces."
-- Lanny Thompson New West Indian Guide
"These essays raise important questions not always broached by historians, particularly the consequences and materiality of rumor, conspiracy, epistemology, and neoliberalism. The volume will be useful for students and scholars of U.S. empire, and it encourages interdisciplinary conversations between historians and anthropologists."
-- Jana Kate Lipman Journal of American History
"Engaging emerging, multidisciplinary conversations across anthropology, American studies, and postcolonial studies about how empire operates and endures, Ethnographies of U.S. Empire is a reflection both on empire and on ethnography. Together, the chapters make a case for ethnographic research as a way of studying empire, as a method that offers not a bounded or concise definition of what makes an empire, but rather an expansive sense of how people live with and within the imperial present."
-- Emma Shaw Crane Society & Space
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire / John F. Collins and Carole McGranahan 1 I. Settlement, Sentiment, Sovereignty 1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants / Jean Dennison 27 2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawaiʻi / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui 47 3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity / Audra Simpson 72 II. Colonialism by Any Other Name 4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico / Adriana María Garriga-López 93 5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico / Melissa Rosario 112 6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa 129 7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry / Jan M. Padios 149 III. Temporality, Proximity, Dispersion 8. In Their Place: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha 173 9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire / Ju Hui Judy Han 194 10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War / Heonik Kwon 214 11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism / Kevin K. Birth 227 IV. Military Promises 12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire / David Vine 249 13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry 270 14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent / Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz 291 V. Residue, Rumors, Remnants 15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Eleana Kim 313 16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism / Carole McGranahan 333 17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire / Joe Bryan 350 18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport / Sean T. Mitchell 369 VI. 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Return of Empire 19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maria 391 20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft / Soo Ah Kwon 411 21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey / John F. Collins 431 22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" / Darryl Li 456 Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations / Ann Laura Stoler in conversation with Carole McGranahan 477 Bibliography 491 Contributors 539 Index 541
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