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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Erin Fitz-Henry , Erin Fitz-HenryPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.139kg ISBN: 9781137501172ISBN 10: 1137501170 Pages: 231 Publication Date: 25 August 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Bananas, Beaches, and Bases?: A Brief History of Empire 2. But There's No American Base Here! : Becoming Foreign in a Domestic Sense 3. The Scales of Opposition: Becoming Regional in an International Sense 4. Obligatory Charities, Generous Obligations: Becoming Civilian in a Military Sense 5. The Return of the City-State?: Becoming Autonomous in a Sovereign Sense 6. Becoming Colombian in an Ecuadorian SenseReviewsIn this highly readable and fascinating ethnographic account of an Ecuadorian community's response to the US military base in Manta, Erin Fitz-Henry presents the often neglected stories of local pro-base supporters and their efforts to counter anti-base activism. Her book turns conventional wisdom about anti-base activism on its head and is a welcome addition to the growing literature in anthropology, political science, and sociology on US military bases and their impact on communities. - Andrew I. Yeo, Associate Professor of Politics, Catholic University of America, USA In rich and evocative prose, Erin Fitz-Henry takes us to an outpost of empire and identifies the unexpected stories of, and edgy alliances between, US military personnel and the residents of the drug trade and crime-pocked city of Manta, Ecuador. It is centrally a story about transnational social movements and how they work or don't, and about where the US military has established itself and what its personnel make of their tasks. In the process, it provides an original and ethnographically rich sense of how arguments about sovereignty have been diversely configured. - Catherine Lutz, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies, Brown University, USA Author InformationErin Fitz-Henry is Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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