Remaking Micronesia
by Hanlon, David L.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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