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Tip of the Spear
In Tip of the Spear
, Alfred Peredo Flores argues that the US occupation of the
island of Guåhan (Guam), one of the most heavily militarized
islands in the western Pacific Ocean, was enabled by a process of
settler militarism. During World War II and the Cold War,
Guåhan was a launching site for both covert and open US military
operations in the region, a strategically significant role that
turned Guåhan into a crucible of US overseas empire. In 1962, the
US Navy lost the authority to regulate all travel to and from the
island, and a tourist economy eventually emerged that changed the
relationship between the Indigenous CHamoru population and the US
military, further complicating the process of settler colonialism
on the island.
The US military occupation of Guåhan was based on a
co-constitutive process that included CHamoru land dispossession,
discursive justifications for the remaking of the island, the
racialization of civilian military labor, and the military's
policing of interracial intimacies. Within a narrative that
emphasizes CHamoru resilience, resistance, and survival, Flores
uses a working class labor analysis to examine how the
militarization of Guåhan was enacted by a minority settler
population to contribute to the US government's hegemonic presence
in Oceania.
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Guam hit by strongest typhoon in decades
Typhoon Mawar struck Guam with damaging winds and flash flooding on May 24.
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Rain, winds slam Guam as Typhoon Mawar approaches
A flash flood warning was issued for all of Guam on May 24, as Typhoon Mawar neared the island.
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From unincorporated territory åmot
\"This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland, the western Pacific island of Guåhan (Guam), and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people. \"Åmot\" is the Chamoru word for \"medicine,\" and commonly refers to medicinal plants. Traditional healers were known as yo'åmte, and they gathered åmot in the jungle, and recited chants and invocations of taotao'mona, or ancestral spirits, in the healing process. Through experimental and visual poetry, Perez explores how storytelling can become a symbolic form of åmot, offering healing from the traumas of colonialism, militarism, migration, environmental injustice, and the death of elders\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Forgotten Bodies
Women from Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, who migrate to Guam, a U.S.territory, suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes.Though their access to the United States is unusually easy, through a unique migration agreement, it keeps them in a perpetual liminal state as nonimmigrants, who never fully belong as part.
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Private Yokoi's War and Life on Guam, 1944-1972
When discovered by local hunters on Guam, Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour. This book sheds light on the reality of the war in the Pacific while addressing some key issues concerning the nature of Japanese culture in modern times.; Readership: General/trade
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