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The empires' edge : militarization, resistance, and transcending hegemony in the Pacific / / Sasha Davis



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Autore: Davis Sasha <1971-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The empires' edge : militarization, resistance, and transcending hegemony in the Pacific / / Sasha Davis Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Athens : , : The University of Georgia Press, , [2015]
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (171 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 355/.033095
Soggetto topico: Hegemony
Militarism - Islands of the Pacific
Militarism - Environmental aspects - Islands of the Pacific
International cooperation - Philosophy
Geopolitics - Islands of the Pacific
Social movements - Islands of the Pacific
Soggetto geografico: Islands of the Pacific Relations Developed countries
Developed countries Relations Islands of the Pacific
Islands of the Pacific Politics and government
Islands of the Pacific Environmental conditions
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Hegemony and Affinity in the Islands of Empire -- Surveying the Baseworld -- Seeing like an Empire : Islands as Wastelands -- Local Resistances and Imperial Reactions -- Colonialism, Militarization, Tourism, and Environment as Nexus -- Networks of Affinity and Myths of the Postcolonial Pacific.
Sommario/riassunto: "In the past decade the Asia-Pacific region has become a focus of international politics and military strategies. Due to China's rising economic and military strength, North Korea's nuclear tests and missile launches, tense international disputes over small island groups in the seas around Asia, and the United States pivoting a majority of its military forces to the region, the islands of the western Pacific have increasingly become the center of global attention. While the Pacific is a current hotbed of geopolitical rivalry and intense militarization, the region is also something else: a homeland to the hundreds of millions of people that inhabit it. Based on a decade of research in the region, The Empires' Edge examines the tremendous damage the militarization of the Pacific has wrought on its people and environments. Furthermore, Davis details how contemporary social movements in this region are affecting global geopolitics by challenging the military use of Pacific islands and by developing a demilitarized view of security based on affinity, mutual aid, and international solidarity. Through an examination of 'sacrificed' islands from across the region--including Bikini Atoll, Okinawa, Hawai'i, and Guam--The Empires' Edge makes the case that the great political contest of the twenty-first century is not about which country gets hegemony in a global system but rather about the choice between perpetuating a system of international relations based on domination or pursuing a more egalitarian and cooperative future"--
Titolo autorizzato: The empires' edge  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8203-4456-7
0-8203-4778-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463824803321
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Serie: Geographies of justice and social transformation.