Archipelago of Resettlement
Author | : Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780520379657 |
ISBN-13 | : 0520379659 |
Rating | : 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Introduction : Nước : archipelogics and land/water politics -- Archipelagic history : Vietnam, Palestine, Guam, 1967-75 -- The "new frontier" : settler imperial prefigurations and afterlives of America's war in Vietnam -- Operation New Life : Vietnamese refugees and U.S. settler militarism in Guam -- Refugees in a state of refuge : Vietnamese Israelis and the question of Palestine -- The politics of staying : the permanent/transient temporality of settler militarism in Guam -- The politics of translation : competing rhetorics of return in Israel-Palestine and Vietnam -- Afterword : floating islands : refugee futurities and decolonial horizons.