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Ethnographies of U.S. Empire

McGranahan, Carole; Collins, John F

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire -- 1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants -- 2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawai'i -- 3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity -- 4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico -- 5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico -- 6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football -- 7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry -- 8. In Their Places: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo -- 9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire -- 10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War -- 11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism -- 12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire -- 13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador -- 14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent -- 15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone -- 16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism -- 17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire -- 18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport -- 19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror -- 20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft -- 21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey -- 22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" -- Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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