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    "pk": 42986,
    "title": "The Banality of American Empire: The Curious Case of Guam, USA",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The title of a 2004 \nNew York Times \narticle sums up well the curious political existence of the island of Guam: “Looking for friendly base overseas, Pentagon finds it already has one.” Guam is known as the “tip of America’s spear” and has for more than a century played a crucial role in securing US strategic interests in the Asia-Pacific region. Guam is also one of seventeen remaining colonies in the world, as recognized by the United Nations, in need of decolonization. In media representations and critical discourse around US imperialism, Guam also occupies a curious space, where it is a US military colony that somehow does not represent colonialism or imperialism. This essay will use the concept of \nbanality \nto interrogate how this simultaneous fullness of Guam as a site for American military power, and its emptiness as a site for American critique, enable the US to project force largely unchallenged over a significant part of the globe.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Guam"
        },
        {
            "word": "US Imperialism"
        },
        {
            "word": "US military colony"
        },
        {
            "word": "unincorporated territory"
        },
        {
            "word": "banality"
        },
        {
            "word": "US overseas bases"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnational American Studies"
        },
        {
            "word": "JTAS"
        }
    ],
    "section": "SPECIAL FORUM: (Im)Mobilities",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/361824dg",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Michael",
            "middle_name": "Lujan",
            "last_name": "Bevacqua",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Guam",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Manuel",
            "middle_name": "Lujan",
            "last_name": "Cruz",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Auckland University of Technology",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2020-02-17T20:42:04Z",
    "date_accepted": "2020-02-17T20:42:04Z",
    "date_published": "2020-06-28T17:05:57Z",
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}