Ethnographies of U.S. Empire (Hardcover)

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