Settler Garrison: Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781478015680)

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.

Author: Jodi Kim
ISBN-10: 1478015683
ISBN-13: 9781478015680
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2022
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d