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To Our Readers Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Arnold Pan
Published in Amerasia Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature: From Juxtaposition to Articulation Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Aline Lo, Swati Rana
This essay introduces Amerasia Journal’s special issue on “Creativity and Critique in Asian American Literature.” Drawing upon multi-genre and multimodal contributions to this issue, we theorize di...
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Who Is the We in Diaspora? Liner Notes from the Future Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Jacqueline Barrios
“Who Is the We in Diaspora?” is episode2, season two of Digital Salon, an experimental podcast begun at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Produced by coauthor Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, the “DJ,” i...
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Once Upon a Queer Time in Krys Lee’s “Beautiful Women” Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Emily K. Yoon
Krys Lee’s “Beautiful Women,” published in Drifting House, follows the coming of age of Mina. The story juxtaposes the fairy tale and the bildungsroman which, impelled by Mina’s queer erotics, allo...
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Sensuous Machines: Sexuality, Violence, and Robots in Asian American Speculative Poetry Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Maile Aihua Young
In this article, I explore how two collections of Asian American speculative poetry – Franny Choi’s Soft Science and Margaret Rhee’s Love, Robot—prioritize sensation to challenge the cultural const...
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Roots Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Helen Zhong
Published in Amerasia Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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You Are Invited: A Conversation on Sexual Violence in Asian America Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Thaomi Michelle Dinh, Seo-Young Chu
In this conversation, we come together as two literary scholars who care deeply about working against sexual violence. We explore the difficulties of talking about rape culture in our own lives and...
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“Going Back to the Basement” A Roundtable on Creativity, Critique, and the Stewarding of Asian American Literary Arts Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Aline Lo, Swati Rana
This roundtable features writers, scholars, editors, and organizers who are invested in Asian American literature. The conversation touched on literary history, the convergence of creative writing ...
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Living Life as a Text/tile: Animating Asian Americanist Reading Practices Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Clara Chin
This is an experimental work based loosely around my stop-motion animation, “Scare Quotes.” It asks – what is it like to live life as a textile? By imagining the self as a textile in my visual prac...
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“Nothing but My Own Whole Body”: Revisiting Radical Haiku Through Violet Kazue de Cristoforo’s Life and Work Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Mai-Linh K. Hong
This essay reflects upon the continuing significance of the freestyle Kaiko haiku movement documented by poet, editor, and translator Violet Kazue de Cristoforo in the anthology May Sky: There Is A...
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A Pale Persephone: On the Works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Angie Sijun Lou
This essay interlaces personal narrative with an analysis of the video and textual works of the Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. I begin with a sequence of visits to the Puck Building,...
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Poems Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Nancy Kang
Two snapshots of immigrant experience as a formative interplay between the briefly intense and broadly mundane.
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Sylvia’s Darlings with Commentary Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Floyd Cheung
“Sylvia’s Darlings with commentary” selectively recovers Sylvia Plath’s “darlings” that she left behind or strike-outs that she created on the way to writing Ariel. Interspersed with poetic arrange...
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Visual Notetaking as Asian American Art Practice Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Talitha Angelica Acaylar Trazo
This autoethnographic essay and curation of visual notes and illustrations sheds light on the transformative power of visual notetaking as Asian American art practice. I focus on the influence the ...
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To Our Readers Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Arnold Pan
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Remembering Amy Uyematsu (1947–2023) Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Siwá Feminism: Shinnecock Ocean Relationality Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Kelsey Leonard
This article presents Siwá knowledge, exploring the resilient Shores where Land and Water meet. Like whalers’ logbooks, it charts the historical and present Siwá feminist approaches to Ocean relati...
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We Won’t Go Back: Asian Americans and Racial Justice After Affirmative Action Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Janelle Wong, OiYan Poon, Jude Paul Matias Dizon, Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Ann Ngoc Tran
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Asian American History and Its Publics: Practitioners and Scholars Chart Diverse Paths Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Shelley S. Lee, Catherine Ceniza Choy, Amy Sueyoshi, K. Ian Shin, Jason Oliver Chang, Nancy Bulalacao
In this forum, a diverse group of scholars and practitioners reflect upon doing work as Asian Americanists with and for non-academic audiences, or various “publics.” Their remarks were originally p...
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Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska’s Indigenous and Asian Entanglements Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Rui Liu
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2022)
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Daughters of the Diaspora: Traversing Chamoru Women’s Stories Beyond the Mariana Islands Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-12-10 Jesi Lujan Bennett
This essay examines the importance of Chamoru women’s stories in understanding the growth of the Chamoru diaspora. The Mariana Islands, homeland of Chamorus, is a matrilineal society that has dealt...
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Thinking with Suzanne Ounei Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Anaïs Duong-Pedica
This article is a critical reflection on Kanak feminist activist Suzanne Ounei, one of the co-founders of the Group of Exploited Kanak Women in Struggle in Kanaky/New Caledonia in the 1980s. Throug...
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To Our Readers Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2022)
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Ocean Feminisms Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Celia Bardwell-Jones, Joyce Pualani Warren, Stephanie Nohelani Teves
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2022)
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Cold War, Global Warming, and Transoceanic Feminism: Theorizing the Black Pacific Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Nozomi (Nakaganeku) Saito
This essay examines how anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure subtend Cold War militarisms. By reading the poems of Teresia Teaiwa, Déwé Gorodé, and Grace Mera Molisa within a Black Pacific framewo...
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Saltwater Archives: Transoceanic Feminist Mediations on Embodied Memories and Repertoires of Knowledge Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Katherine Achacoso, Patricia (Trish) Tupou, Halena Kapuni-Reynolds
“Saltwater Archives: Transoceanic Feminist Mediations on Embodied Memories and Repertoires of Knowledge” is a multimedia exploration into the role of embodied archives, memory, and repertoire in bu...
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Grandmother Vaimoana, Tauhi Va, and Healing the Broken Intimacies Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
This is a short story about a Tongan woman traditional healer and her granddaughter.
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He Pūʻao ke Kai, He Kai ka Pūʻao (Ocean as Womb, Womb as Ocean): Mana Wahine Aloha ʻĀina Activism as Return, Revival, and Remembrance Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-21 kuʻualoha hoʻomanawanui
In Kumulipo, a Hawaiian cosmogonic chant, all life begins in the sea. Thus, ʻŌiwi (Hawaiians) share kinship connections our flora, fauna, and natural elements that originate in our mother ocean, th...
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Notes from Mni Sota Makoce: Native Pacific Feminist Re/search Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Kirisitina Sailiata
A short reflection on Native Pacific Feminist research methods and methodologies in higher education institutions and places on Turtle Island. Sailiata weaves her academic and personal genealogies ...
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Birthing Educational Pathways: Pacific Feminisms and the Ethics of Kuleana and Kinship Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Kēhaulani Vaughn
As a daughter of Oceania residing in Turtle Island, I have birthed pathways within higher education that center Pacific epistemes in curriculum and pedagogy. These spaces have assisted Pacific Isla...
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The Criminalization of Ancestral Duty Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Roxane Keliʻikipikāneokolohaka
Dr. Roxane Keliʻikipikāneokolohaka is one of a handful of Hawaiian cultural practitioners who, through their Native Hawaiian organization Kiaʻi Kanaloa, advocate and care for distressed and strande...
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Recovery, Waikīkī A Poem for Haunani Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Noʻu Revilla
“Recovery, Waikīkī” is an aloha ʻāina poem. Written from the perspective of an ʻŌiwi surfer paddling out to a break in Waikīkī, the poem interrogates mass corporate tourism during the early months ...
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Navigating Home: Relations of Oceania Feminist Solidarity Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Angela L. Robinson
This short piece explores what relations of Oceania feminist solidarity look, sound, and feel like. Crossing divisons between oceans, islands, and species, practices of Oceania feminist solidarity ...
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Introduction: Conservatisms and Fascisms in Asian America Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Adrian De Leon, Jane Hong
ABSTRACT The introduction to this special issue of Amerasia frames scholarly and popular conversations around conservatisms and fascisms in Asian America, with attention to the role of religion and transnational authoritarianism. It argues that Asian American conservatism should be understood not just as an imported phenomenon from outside these communities, but as something structural within the formation
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To Our Readers Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2022)
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Transpacific Fascism in John Okada’s No-No Boy Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Sydney Van To
ABSTRACT This essay urges a reconsideration of John Okada’s No-No Boy as a transpacific text which engages with the erased history of Japanese America’s entanglements with fascism, particularly by situating the novel in relation to Japanese writers such as Tosaka Jun, Uno Kōzō, and Mishima Yukio. Rather than classifying No-No Boy as a fascist or anti-fascist text, an aesthetic conception of fascism
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Martial Law Histories from a Critical Filipina/x/o American Perspective Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Joy Sales
ABSTRACT This essay explores the intertwined personal, political, and intellectual journeys of the author, a Filipina/x/o American scholar seeking to understand the history and legacies of the Ferdinand E. Marcos dictatorship, also known as martial law. Inspired by a transnational movement of Filipinos fighting for national liberation and genuine democracy, the author recognizes her role as a people’s
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“We Think About Our Children First”: Asian Skilled Professionals, Liberal Multiculturalism and the Borders of Educational Inequality in Fremont, California Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-08 Brian Su-Jen Chung
ABSTRACT This essay examines how the suburban built environment of affluent skilled professionals shaped the political claims that affluent Asian parents made as suburban residents during the 1990 to the early 2000s. In focusing on the school boundary debates and redistribution of educational resources in the Silicon Valley suburb of Fremont, California, I critically unpack how Asian parents advocated
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From Bandung to Little Rock: Dalip Singh Saund and the Limits of Racial Liberalism Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Seema Sohi
ABSTRACT This essay briefly examines the state-sponsored journey of Dalip Singh Saund – the first Asian American, Indian American, and Sikh American to be elected to the United States Congress – across Asia in the winter of 1957–1958 alongside the 1955 Afro-Asian Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. As an ambassador of American efforts to put forward a new and conciliatory face on the issue of race in
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Model Minority or Myth? Reexamining the Politics of S.I. Hayakawa Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-11-21 Vivian Yan-Gonzalez
ABSTRACT This article problematizes the model minority myth as an analytic in discussions of Asian American conservatism by reassessing the personal and political development of S.I. Hayakawa, Acting President of San Francisco State College during the Third World Liberation Front strike of 1968–1969. Contemporary activists and Asian American studies scholars influenced by the strike’s legacy have seen
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To Our Readers Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2021)
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How to Gently Unpack an Empire Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Aziz Sohail
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2021)
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Looking Back, Moving Forward: Amplifying Voices in the AAPI Communities During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Chloe Low, Annie Phan, Sorina Long, Sidra Ali, Cynthia Fok
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2021)
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Amerasia Journal at 50 Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-02 Russell C. Leong, David K. Yoo, Keith L. Camacho
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2021)
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Tributes to Janice Mirikitani Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Mitsuye Yamada, Nellie Wong
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2021)
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The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in the Digital Age Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Christine Peralta
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2021)
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The Great Wall of Chinese America: Counterhegemonic boyhood masculinity and the Boy Scouts in New York’s Chinatown before World War II Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-27 K. Ian Shin
ABSTRACT This article analyzes a troop newspaper entitled The Great Wall created by Chinese American Boy Scouts in New York’s Chinatown in the late 1930s. I argue that Chinatown Scouts constructed a counterhegemonic boyhood masculinity through expressions of physical strength, ethnic heritage, and binational allegiances. Although Chinatown Scouts resisted stereotypes of Chinese Americans as feeble
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Persian/American Exceptionalism: Post-9/11 Strategies of Belonging in the Iranian Diaspora through Cultural Production Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Ida Yalzadeh
ABSTRACT Since 9/11, Iranian Americans have challenged their racialization as troublesome terrorists through cultural productions that emphasize how they belong in a multicultural America. In this paper, I argue that these Iranian Americans perform “Persian/American exceptionalism,” a representational strategy that embraces capitalist conspicuous consumption and touts universalist notions of freedom
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Indescribable: The Construction and Enregisterment of Korean American Ethnolinguistic Identity Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Andrew Cheng
ABSTRACT This paper examines how young Korean Americans conceive of the relationship between their ethnic identity and linguistic behavior, focusing on metalinguistic commentary given on the topic of Korean American English (KAE). I argue that the ongoing enregisterment of a unique KAE variety is characterized by the fact that Korean Americans disagree on both what this variety sounds like and where
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Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai‘i Statehood Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-06-07 Courtney Sato
Published in Amerasia Journal (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2021)
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Thương Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-04-25 Việt Lê, Richard Gessert
(2021). Thương. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 47, Cold War Reformations, pp. 287-294.
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Grand Blue Mother Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-24 iris yirei hu
(2021). Grand Blue Mother. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 47, Cold War Reformations, pp. 249-251.
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To Our Readers Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
(2021). To Our Readers. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 47, Cold War Reformations, pp. 177-177.
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Calf Folder Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Latipa
(2021). Calf Folder. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 47, Cold War Reformations, pp. 283-286.
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Nuclear Normalizing and Kathy Jetn¯il-Kijiner’s “Dome Poem” Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Rebecca H. Hogue
ABSTRACT This essay explores U.S. Cold War medical discourses after nuclear detonations in the Marshall Islands (1946–1958) in conversation with contemporary Marshallese poetry. In a process I term “nuclear normalizing,” I show how the U.S. government repeatedly obscures the causal relationships of their nuclear detonations regarding Indigenous experiences of illness, specifically in Project 4.1 and
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An Ambivalent Magic: Undocumented Asian Immigrants and Racialized “Illegality” in the U.S. Imperial Project Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Ga Young Chung
ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the Cold War’s militarized and imperialist logic has entangled with racialized migrant “illegality” to shape undocumented Korean immigrants’ (in)voluntary enlistment in the MAVNI program. Drawing on several years of ethnographic research, I examine how young undocumented Koreans were mobilized in service of the US’s imperial project to sustain its global supremacy
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Cold War Reformations Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Crystal Mun-hye Baik, Wendy Cheng
ABSTRACT In this special issue, guest editors Crystal Mun-hye Baik and Wendy Cheng discuss the prolongation of the Cold War in the twenty-first century. Foregrounding the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and class-based dynamics of the Cold War, the authors are attentive to the entwined histories of imperialism, racial-settler capitalism, and militarism constitutive of the Cold War. Focusing on reformation
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Alfred & Min U: A Cold War Family Story Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Alfred P. Flores
(2021). Alfred & Min U: A Cold War Family Story. Amerasia Journal: Vol. 47, Cold War Reformations, pp. 245-248.
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Cluster Bombs and War Metals: Reforming U.S. Cold War Debris in Laos Amerasia Journal Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Davorn Sisavath
ABSTRACT This essay focuses on cluster bombs and war metals, and links militarism, war, and violence to how people continue to experience the legacies of the Cold War. I ask the following questions: How might the collateralization and legacy of military violence serve to illuminate a dimension of the Cold War as ongoing? What does it mean to engage with the Cold War and the different forms of entanglements