Rethinking America
The Imperial Homeland in the 21st Century
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-59451-384-8 (ISBN)
Description
How has domestic life been reorganised to accommodate the new U.S. imperial ambitions? What are the consequences of empire for the people living here "at home"? This new collection of essays answers these questions by exploring the cultural, political, and economic shifts that are now under way in the United States. Encouraging a radical rethinking of what the country is today, this book highlights the connection of U.S. imperial strategies to the production of insecurity, uncertainty, and deepening inequality at home. Rethinking America also explores the instabilities and contradictions of the new imperialism from the unique vantage point of the newly emerging U.S. "homeland." Comprised of work from leading figures in the field of U.S. ethnography, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the changes taking place in the United States in the early years of the twenty-first century.
Reviews / Votes
"This book helps us to understand a relatively neglected aspect of contemporary American imperialism: its antidemocratic impact on policies and institutions within the United States. This is engaged anthropology at its best-well-informed, compassionate, and intelligently argued. Important reading for our times."-Talal Asad, City University of New York
"Jeff Maskovsky and Ida Susser have brought together fine essays that explore the multifaceted interconnections between U.S. imperialist aggression abroad and our increasingly distorted domestic political economy. The imperial power has produced, they say, an imperial homeland, economically, politically, and culturally. We need to read this book."
-Frances Fox Piven
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59451-384-8 (9781594513848)
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Persons
Jeff Maskovsky teaches Anthropology and Urban Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author most recently of New Poverty Studies: The Ethnography of Power, Politics, and Impoverishment in the United States (NYU 2001). Ida Susser is Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her books include Wounded Cities (Berg 2003, coedited with Jane Schneider).
Content
Introduction, Jeff Maskovsky, Ida Susser; Part I Human Rights and Imperialism at Home and Away; Chapter 1 U.S. Foreign Military Bases, Catherine Lutz; Chapter 2 JROTC and Latina/o Youth in Neoliberal Cities, Gina Perez; Chapter 3 Human Rights in the Imperial Heartland, Sally Engle Merry; Chapter 4 Torture Is US, Lesley Gill; Chapter 5 Imperial Moralities, Ida Susser; Part II Twenty-First-Century Culture Wars; Chapter 6 Whose Homeland?, Micaela di Leonardo; Chapter 7 Home Front, August Carbonella; Chapter 8 "Ghetto Fabulous" in the Imperial United States, Roopali Mukherjee; Part III Governance in the Age of Preemptive War; Chapter 9 Torture and the Biopolitics of Race, Dorothy Roberts; Chapter 10 "Fragmented" Security, Jeff Maskovsky, Hilary Cunningham; Chapter 11 Republic of Fear, Roger N. Lancaster; Chapter 12 Liberal Social Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Neoconservatism, Don Robotham; Part IV Coercion and Class in an Era of Insecurity; Chapter 13 "In Harm's Way", Sandra Morgen; Chapter 14 The United States and the Underworld System, Jane Schneider, Peter Schneider; Chapter 15 One Big Labor Market, Jane Collins; Chapter 16 What's Wrong with the U.S. Immigration Debate?, Peter Kwong;