{"product_id":"empire-and-environment-9780472074938","title":"Empire and Environment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArgues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePreface: Out of the Ruins\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMacarena GÓmez-Barris        \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction           \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, Zhou Xiaojing   \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART I: (Framing) Postcolonial Ecocritical Approaches to the Asia-Pacific from Family Trees (poem) Craig Santos Perez     \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1 Transpacific Queer Ecologies: Confronting Ecological Ruination and Imperialist Nostalgia in Han Ong’s The Disinherited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJeffrey Santa Ana\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2 Cycas wadei and Enduring White Space    \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKathleen Gutierrez \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3 Rust and Recovery: A Study of South Indian Goddess Films   \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChitra Sankaran\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4 “If We Return We Will Learn:” Empire, Poetry, and Biocultural Knowledge in Papua New Guinea\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJohn Charles Ryan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART II: Militarized Environments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNuclear Family (poem) Craig Santos Perez      \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5 Environmental Violence and the Vietnam War in le thi diem thuy’s   \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Gangster We Are All Looking For\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmily Cheng \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6 Toxic Waters: Vietnamese Ecologies in the Afterlives of Empire \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeidi Amin-Hong\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7  Haunted by Empires: Micronesian Eco-Poetry Against Colonial Ruination  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZhou Xiaojing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART III: Decolonizing the Transpacific: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise Song for Oceania (poem) Craig Santos Perez       \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8 Risk and Resistance at Po\\\\ōhakuloa        \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRebecca Hogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9 “Disentrancing” the Rot of Colonialism in Philippine and Canadian Ecopoetry  \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRina Garcia Chua\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10 Representing Postcolonial Water Environments in Contemporary Taiwanese   \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiterature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTihan Chang\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePART IV: Climate Justice and Ecological Futurities\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAge of Plastic (poem), Craig Santos Perez       \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 Climate Justice in the Transpacific Novel Amy Lee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12 Rising Like Waves: Drowning Settler Colonial Rhetoric with Aloha   \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmalani Case\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13 Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKanaka Maoli Artists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChad Shomura\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword: “A New Way Beyond the Darkness”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePriscilla Wald          \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContributors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037120397655,"sku":"9780472074938","price":64.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780472074938.jpg?v=1750934517","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/empire-and-environment-9780472074938","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}