Almost Futures : : Sovereignty and Refuge at World's End
"Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price for progress throughout war and capitalist globalization-particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees-for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future's promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) ami...
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| Superior document: | Critical refugee studies ; 6 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2024] ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Critical refugee studies ;
6. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 261 pages) :; color illustrations |
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| Other title: | Sovereignty and refuge at world's end |
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| Summary: | "Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price for progress throughout war and capitalist globalization-particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees-for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future's promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time, Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic, in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical, in assembly line workers' laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate, in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting, in refugee writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable, in refugees' inhabitation of history"-- |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520394461 9780520394469 9780520394452 0520394453 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |