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
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire
- I. Settlement, Sentiment, Sovereignty
- 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
- II. Colonialism by Any Other Name
- 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
- III. Temporality, Proximity, Dispersion
- 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
- IV. Military Promises
- 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
- V. Residue, Rumors, Remnants
- 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
- VI. 9/11, the War on Terror, and the Return of Empire
- 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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