Remaking Micronesia,9780824820114

Remaking Micronesia

by Hanlon, David L.

ISBN13: 9780824820114

ISBN10: 0824820118

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 1998-03-01

Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr

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Summary

This is an important, imaginative, much needed contribution to the study of Micronesia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
As the Frigate Bird Flies	p. 1
American Ideology in the Postwar Period	p. 4
Economics as Culture	p. 5
Development as a Discourse of Domination	p. 7
The Counterhegemonic Dimensions of Underdevelopment	p. 11
A Different Plan for Examining Economic Development in Micronesia	p. 14
Beginning to Remake Micronesia	p. 21
War and Its Representations	p. 22
The Politics of Relief and Restoration	p. 26
Other and Earlier Histories of Economic Development	p. 32
Military Government: September 1945 to July 1947	p. 34
Belaboring Micronesians	p. 38
Development Aside	p. 43
"Mild Benevolence" as Strategic Denial	p. 46
Strategic Developments	p. 51
The Navy's Trust Territory	p. 51
The Island Trading Company	p. 54
The Colonial Culture of Agriculture	p. 55
The Colonizing Politics of Conservation	p. 56
Very Telling Stories	p. 59
Countering Development: The Case of Angaur	p. 63
Savings as First Fruits in Chuuk	p. 73
The Role of Cooperatives in the Colonization of Micronesia	p. 80
"Our Work in Your Islands": The End of the Naval Administration	p. 83
"Planning Micronesia's Future"	p. 87
The First Plan	p. 88
The "Wisdom" of Solomon and Nathan, Too	p. 91
Modernization Theory as Bourgeois Realism	p. 99
Other Plans, Other Planners	p. 101
The Peace Corps in Paradise	p. 107
More Than a Living	p. 111
Losing Big	p. 116
The Battle of Map	p. 120
Congressing over Development	p. 128
Gramsci and Guha in Micronesia	p. 129
The Beginnings of the Congress of Micronesia	p. 130
Planning First	p. 133
Consciousness and Criticism in the Congress of Micronesia	p. 136
Dreaming the Future	p. 139
Differing over Development	p. 142
Silent Voices Heard in Chuuk	p. 150
Dependency? It Depends	p. 158
Money for the West, Kinship to the "Rest"	p. 161
"Money for Nothing and Your Frozen Chickens for Free"	p. 167
The Reach of U.S. Federal Programs in American Micronesia	p. 170
The Politics of Feeding	p. 174
Having Their "Cake of Custom" and Eating It Too?	p. 184
Dumping on Ebeye	p. 186
Metaphor as a Way of Getting to Ebeye	p. 187
Beyond Metaphor	p. 188
Ebeye, 1978	p. 196
Home, Home on the Kwajalein Missile Range	p. 199
Colonial Perceptions and Prescriptions	p. 201
Local and Conflicting Agencies	p. 207
The Future as a Foreign Country?	p. 213
The Continuing Story of Etao	p. 215
The End of History for the Edge of Paradise?	p. 217
Ending History?	p. 218
Negotiations	p. 219
The Compact as a "Mechanism" of Continuing Domination	p. 222
Debating the Terms of Endowment	p. 224
Touring the Edge of Paradise	p. 231
Beyond Ends and Edges: Recalculating Economic Development	p. 234
Notes	p. 241
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 295
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