Vine Island of Shame

The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
With a New afterword by the author
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3850-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Vine, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables ix
Foreword by Michael Tigar xi
Abbreviations and Initialisms xvii
A Note to the Reader xix
Introduction 1

Chapter 1. The Ilois, The Islanders 20

Chapter 2. The Bases of Empire 41

Chapter 3. The Strategic Island Concept and a Changing of the Imperial Guard 56

Chapter 4."Exclusive Control" 72

Chapter 5."Maintaining the Fiction" 89

Chapter 6."Absolutely Must Go" 99

Chapter 7."On the Rack" 112

Chapter 8. Derasine: The Impoverishment of Expulsion 126

Chapter 9. Death and Double Discrimination 137

Chapter 10. Dying of Sagren 149

Chapter 11. Daring to Challenge 164

Chapter 12. The Right to Return and a Humanpolitik 180

Epilogue 197

My Thanks 199

Further Resources 203

Notes 205

Afterword to the Paperback Edition 249

Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

David Vine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C.