Settler Garrison
Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Duke University Press
Published:20th May '22
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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.
“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 *
"An ambitious undertaking. . . . Settler Garrison is a powerful antidote to conceptions of the Pacific as merely a US mare nostrum." -- Jim Glassman * Pacific Affairs *
"That Settler Garrison is a study of many things (e.g., capitalism, decolonization, militarism, settler colonialism, and sexual violence) should draw scholars from an extensive range of disciplines to examine this question alongside her and consider it in their own work." -- Sarah Meiners * Journal of American Ethnic History *
"This book is a worthwhile read for those who are interested in further understanding the mechanisms of exported US imperialism and in search of articulations of transpacific futurities. . . . Settler Garrison maintains a strong argument surrounding the operations of US militarism and a thoughtful commitment to transpacific futurities as envisioned by the people who have endured this violence and its settler imperial failures." -- Katherine Funes * Modern Fiction Studies *
ISBN: 9781478018315
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 386g
272 pages