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    "pk": 42989,
    "title": "Quiet Empire and Slippery Geography: Puerto Rico as Nonsovereign Territory",
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    "abstract": "This essay addresses sociospatial asymmetries configured into the status of nonsovereign island territories. It examines the roles of discourses as legal substructures for policies with clear economic and racial impacts. It also looks at the flexible ways location has been used by national courts, the executive branch, and US Congress to justify differential applications of rights toward island-based citizens. Slippery definitions of incorporation help ensure a nontransferability of national rights and a transferable system of cost-bearing and debt. The essay argues that neoimperialism was the realpolitik that gave logic to the territorial acquisition of Puerto Rico. It discusses diaspora, monocultural production, environmental vulnerability, and locational citizenship in the context of the US Insular Cases, beginning in 1901. By coding islands as suspended spaces from the metropole, quiet colonialism operates through obfuscation. It does not nest in any clear geographic form or authority, but instead works through laws, logistics and installations that are zoned at the crossroads of the foreign and domestic.",
    "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": "US Insular Cases"
        },
        {
            "word": "US neoimperialism"
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        {
            "word": "Puerto Rico and nonsovereign status"
        },
        {
            "word": "island territoriality"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnational American Studies"
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        {
            "word": "JTAS"
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    ],
    "section": "SPECIAL FORUM: (Im)Mobilities",
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        {
            "first_name": "Judith",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Madera",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Wake Forest University",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2020-02-17T20:56:58Z",
    "date_accepted": "2020-02-17T20:56:58Z",
    "date_published": "2020-06-03T22:48:10+01:00",
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