1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786652003321

Autore

Espiritu Yen Le <1963->

Titolo

Body counts : the Vietnam War and militarized refuge(es) / / Yê Lê Espiritu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-520-95900-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Disciplina

959.704/31

Soggetti

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Refugees

Refugees - Vietnam

Refugees - United States

Vietnamese Americans

Collective memory - United States

Militarism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Critical Refuge(e) Studies -- 2. Militarized Refuge(es) -- 3. Refugee Camps and the Politics of Living -- 4. The "Good Warriors" and the "Good Refugee" -- 5. Refugee Remembering-and Remembrance -- 6. Refugee Post-memories: The "Generation After" -- 7. "The Endings That Are Not Over" -- Notes -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Body Counts: The Vietnam War and Militarized Refuge(es) examines how the Vietnam War has continued to serve as a stage for the shoring up of American imperialist adventure and for the (re)production of American and Vietnamese American identities. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, this book retheorizes the connections among history, memory, and power and refashions the fields of American studies, Asian American studies, and refugee studies not around the narratives of American exceptionalism, immigration, and transnationalism but around the crucial issues of war, race, and violence-and the history and memories that are forged in the aftermath of war. At the same time, the book moves decisively away from the



"damage-centered" approach that pathologizes loss and trauma by detailing how first- and second-generation Vietnamese have created alternative memories and epistemologies that challenge the established public narratives of the Vietnam War and Vietnamese people. Explicitly interdisciplinary, Body Counts moves between the humanities and social sciences, drawing on historical, ethnographic, cultural, and virtual evidence in order to illuminate the places where Vietnamese refugees have managed to conjure up social, public, and collective remembering.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814728803321

Autore

Schilling Christopher L. <1983->

Titolo

Emotional state theory : friendship and fear in Israeli foreign policy / / Christopher L. Schilling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0585-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

327.5694001

Soggetti

International relations - Psychological aspects

State, The - Psychological aspects

Israel Foreign relations Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Theoretical framework -- Methodological strategy -- Jewish identity constructions in Israel -- Israeli foreign policy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book brings Theodor Herzl's The Jewish State into dialogue with Sigmund Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" in order to shed light on and offer an explanation for Israel's troubled and uncertain position in current international relations.