Settler garrison : debt imperialism, militarism, and transpacific imaginaries
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Settler garrison : debt imperialism, militarism, and transpacific imaginaries
Duke University Press, 2022
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-248) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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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