Ethnographies of U.S. Empire

Carole McGranahan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and the author of Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War, also published by Duke University Press. John F. Collins is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the author of Revolt of the Saints: Memory and Redemption in the Twilight of Brazilian Racial Democracy, also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Ethnography and U.S. Empire / John F. Collins and Carole McGranahan  1
I. Settlement, Sentiment, Sovereignty
1. The "Affects" of Empire: (Dis)trust among Osage Annuitants / Jean Dennison  27
2. Milking the Cow for All It's Worth: Settler Colonialism and the Politics of Imperialist Resentment in Hawaiʻi / J. Kēhaulani Kauanui  47
3. Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity / Audra Simpson  72
II. Colonialism by Any Other Name
4. A School of Addicts: The Coloniality of Addiction in Puerto Rico / Adriana María Garriga-López  93
5. Inhabiting the Aporias of Empire: Protest Politics in Contemporary Puerto Rico / Melissa Rosario  112
6. Training for Empire?: Samoa and American Gridiron Football / Faʻanofo Lisaclaire Uperesa  129
7. Exceptionalism as a Way of Life: U.S. Empire, Filipino Subjectivity, and the Global Call Center Industry / Jan M. Padios  149
III. Temporality, Proximity, Dispersion
8. In Their Place: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo / Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha  173
9. Shifting Geographies of Proximity: Korean-led Evangelical Christian Missions and the U.S. Empire / Ju Hui Judy Han  194
10. Sites of the Postcolonial Cold War / Heonik Kwon  214
11. Time Standards and Rhizomatic Imperialism / Kevin K. Birth  227
IV. Military Promises
12. Islands of Imperialism: Military Bases and the Ethnography of U.S. Empire / David Vine  249
13. Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador / Erin Fitz-Henry  270
14. The Empire of Choice and the Emergence of Military Dissent / Matthew Gutmann and Catherine Lutz  291
V. Residue, Rumors, Remnants
15. Locating Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone / Eleana Kim  313
16. Love and Empire: The CIA, Tibet, and Covert Humanitarianism / Carole McGranahan  333
17. Trust Us: Nicaragua, Iran-Contra, and the Discursive Economy of Empire / Joe Bryan  350
18. Empire as Accusation, Denial, and Structure: The Social Life of U.S. Power at Brazil's Spaceport / Sean T. Mitchell  369
VI. 9/11, The War on Terror, and the Return of Empire
19. Radicalizing Empire: Youth and Dissent in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maria  391
20. Deporting Cambodian Refugees: Youth Activism, State Reform, and Imperial Statecraft / Soo Ah Kwon  411
21. Hunters of the Sourlands: Empire and Displacement in Highland New Jersey / John F. Collins  431
22. From Exception to Empire: Sovereignty, Carceral Circulation, and the "Global War on Terror" / Darryl Li  456
Afterword. Disassemblage: Rethinking U.S. Imperial Formations / Ann Laura Stoler in conversation with Carole McGranahan  477
Bibliography  491
Contributors  539
Index  541