Transpacific colonialisms, including settler colonialism: Leanne P. Day, ‘Transpacific Radical Solidarities: Racial Capitalism, Empire, and Settler Colonialism’, American Quarterly, 75, 2, 2023, pp. 405-418 | settler colonial studies blog

Transpacific colonialisms, including settler colonialism: Leanne P. Day, ‘Transpacific Radical Solidarities: Racial Capitalism, Empire, and Settler Colonialism’, American Quarterly, 75, 2, 2023, pp. 405-418

07Jun23

Excerpt: This conflates the history of perceived mutual agreement of US imperialism, along with other colonial actors, in the Pacific, and explicitly contrasts the US’s stance on protection and defense against China. Harris imagines a mutual relationship between US empire dependent on what Jodi Kim discusses in Settler Garrison as the “China threat discourse,” which “can be deployed as an alibi to retrench the West’s own imperial and neocolonial interests … [since] the Chinese threat must be contained, and that vulnerable nations must be protected from that threat”.

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