Almost Futures : : Sovereignty and Refuge at World's End

• Superior document: Critical refugee studies ; 6
• Author: Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-
• 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

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : almost -- The sovereignty of grief : land protest and speculative time -- Assemblages of laughter and sorrow : women workers and allegorical fragments -- Iterant remains : witnessing sovereign violence -- History interrupted : the death of South Vietnam and refugee hauntings -- Untimely habitation : irreconcilability and refugee memory.