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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
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
