Decolonization in the Caribbean #13: Sovereignty...According to an Old Flame
For those of you who don’t know, my dissertation in Ethnic Studies
dealt with sovereignty, most specifically Guam’s role in producing
America’s sovereignty, or what role its invisibility or nothingness
plays in producing America as sovereign. This may sound confusing, but
what makes it difficult for most to wrap their heads around, is the
simple fact of saying that something which has been for hundreds of
years produced discursively as being “small” or “faraway” or “faint” or
“owned by the US” as somehow creating something as great and grand and
mighty as the United States of America.
One frustrating aspect of writing my dissertation was the preparing of a literature review, which is a sometimes helpful, sometimes useless review of what others have written about your topic of choice and how you will either use and build on them or defy them. If you are familiar with the bulk of work on sovereignty it all basically says the same thing nowadays, drawing mildly different co…
One frustrating aspect of writing my dissertation was the preparing of a literature review, which is a sometimes helpful, sometimes useless review of what others have written about your topic of choice and how you will either use and build on them or defy them. If you are familiar with the bulk of work on sovereignty it all basically says the same thing nowadays, drawing mildly different co…