Bomb children : life in the former battlefields of Laos

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    • Zani, Leah

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Bomb children : life in the former battlefields of Laos

Leah Zani

Duke University Press, 2019

  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-163) and index

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内容説明

Half a century after the CIA's Secret War in Laos-the largest bombing campaign in history-explosive remnants of war continue to be part of people's everyday lives. In Bomb Children Leah Zani offers a perceptive analysis of the long-term, often subtle, and unintended effects of massive air warfare. Zani traces the sociocultural impact of cluster submunitions-known in Laos as "bomb children"-through stories of explosives clearance technicians and others living and working in these old air strike zones. Zani presents her ethnography alongside poetry written in the field, crafting a startlingly beautiful analysis of state terror, authoritarian revival, rapid development, and ecological contamination. In so doing, she proposes that postwar zones are their own cultural and area studies, offering new ways to understand the parallel relationship between ongoing war violence and postwar revival.

目次

Acknowledgments vii Note on the Lao Language ix Fieldpoem 30: Postwar 1 Introduction: The Fruit Eaters 3 Fieldpoem 11: The Fruit Eaters 36 1. The Dragon and the River 37 Fieldpoem 15: "The Rice Is More Delicious after Bomb Clearance" 64 2. Ghost Mine 65 Fieldpoem 23: Blast Radius 97 3. Blast Radius 98 Fieldpoem 26: House Blessings 130 Conclusion: Phaseout 131 Fieldpoem 18: Children 149 Appendix: Notes on Fieldpoems 151 References 155 Index 165

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