Remaking Micronesia
, by Hanlon, David L.- ISBN: 9780824820114 | 0824820118
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 3/1/1998
This is an important, imaginative, much needed contribution to the study of Micronesia.
Acknowledgments | |
As the Frigate Bird Flies | p. 1 |
American Ideology in the Postwar Period | p. 4 |
Economics as Culture | p. 5 |
Development as a Discourse of Domination | p. 7 |
The Counterhegemonic Dimensions of Underdevelopment | p. 11 |
A Different Plan for Examining Economic Development in Micronesia | p. 14 |
Beginning to Remake Micronesia | p. 21 |
War and Its Representations | p. 22 |
The Politics of Relief and Restoration | p. 26 |
Other and Earlier Histories of Economic Development | p. 32 |
Military Government: September 1945 to July 1947 | p. 34 |
Belaboring Micronesians | p. 38 |
Development Aside | p. 43 |
"Mild Benevolence" as Strategic Denial | p. 46 |
Strategic Developments | p. 51 |
The Navy's Trust Territory | p. 51 |
The Island Trading Company | p. 54 |
The Colonial Culture of Agriculture | p. 55 |
The Colonizing Politics of Conservation | p. 56 |
Very Telling Stories | p. 59 |
Countering Development: The Case of Angaur | p. 63 |
Savings as First Fruits in Chuuk | p. 73 |
The Role of Cooperatives in the Colonization of Micronesia | p. 80 |
"Our Work in Your Islands": The End of the Naval Administration | p. 83 |
"Planning Micronesia's Future" | p. 87 |
The First Plan | p. 88 |
The "Wisdom" of Solomon and Nathan, Too | p. 91 |
Modernization Theory as Bourgeois Realism | p. 99 |
Other Plans, Other Planners | p. 101 |
The Peace Corps in Paradise | p. 107 |
More Than a Living | p. 111 |
Losing Big | p. 116 |
The Battle of Map | p. 120 |
Congressing over Development | p. 128 |
Gramsci and Guha in Micronesia | p. 129 |
The Beginnings of the Congress of Micronesia | p. 130 |
Planning First | p. 133 |
Consciousness and Criticism in the Congress of Micronesia | p. 136 |
Dreaming the Future | p. 139 |
Differing over Development | p. 142 |
Silent Voices Heard in Chuuk | p. 150 |
Dependency? It Depends | p. 158 |
Money for the West, Kinship to the "Rest" | p. 161 |
"Money for Nothing and Your Frozen Chickens for Free" | p. 167 |
The Reach of U.S. Federal Programs in American Micronesia | p. 170 |
The Politics of Feeding | p. 174 |
Having Their "Cake of Custom" and Eating It Too? | p. 184 |
Dumping on Ebeye | p. 186 |
Metaphor as a Way of Getting to Ebeye | p. 187 |
Beyond Metaphor | p. 188 |
Ebeye, 1978 | p. 196 |
Home, Home on the Kwajalein Missile Range | p. 199 |
Colonial Perceptions and Prescriptions | p. 201 |
Local and Conflicting Agencies | p. 207 |
The Future as a Foreign Country? | p. 213 |
The Continuing Story of Etao | p. 215 |
The End of History for the Edge of Paradise? | p. 217 |
Ending History? | p. 218 |
Negotiations | p. 219 |
The Compact as a "Mechanism" of Continuing Domination | p. 222 |
Debating the Terms of Endowment | p. 224 |
Touring the Edge of Paradise | p. 231 |
Beyond Ends and Edges: Recalculating Economic Development | p. 234 |
Notes | p. 241 |
Bibliography | p. 271 |
Index | p. 295 |
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