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Settler Garrison Jodi Kim

Settler Garrison By Jodi Kim

Settler Garrison by Jodi Kim


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Jodi Kim examines 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.

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Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim

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.

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Settler Garrison is a stunning, magisterial work that provides an entirely original definition of US empire as predicated on the production of its legitimation to wield power. Jodi Kim frames spaces heretofore deemed anomalous or marginal-the camptown, the POW camp, and the unincorporated territory-as the very sites where US empire establishes its authority to rule. In the process of redefining and reframing US empire, Kim offers a unique and sorely needed relational methodology for understanding the connection between its various modes, in particular between military empire and settler colonialism. -- Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of * Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference *

About Jodi Kim

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction. US Exceptionalisms, Metapolitical Authority, and the Aesthetics of Settler Imperial Failure 1
1. Perverse Temporalities: Primitive Accumulation and the Settler Colonial Foundations of Debt Imperialism 39
2. The Military Base and Camptown: Seizing Land by Bulldozer and Bayonet and the Transpacific Masculinist Compact 62
3. The POW Camp: Waging Psychological Warfare and a New Settler Frontier 113
4. The Unincorporated Territory: Constituting Indefinite Deferral and No Page Is Ever Terra Nullius 138
Epilogue. Climate Change, Climate Debt, Climate Imperialism 174
Acknowledgments 185
Notes 189
Bibliography 229
Index 249

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CIN1478018313VG
9781478018315
1478018313
Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries by Jodi Kim
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2022-05-20
272
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