Militarization and Resistance from Guåhan

Protecting and Defending Pågat

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2982993
AutoresTiara R Na‘puti, Tiara R Na’puti (0000-0002-7984-8308), Michael Lujan Bevacqua
Año2015
Volumen67
Número3
Páginas837-858
Fecha de publicación2015-09-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/aq.2015.0040
OpenAlexW1750058082
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30
Referencias citadas13

This project centers Guåhan (Guam) as a critical site of rhetorical struggle over identity, indigeneity, and Americanness. Using Chamoru (Chamorro) cultural frameworks of inafa' maolek (to make things good for each other), we illuminate how local responses and activism challenge US colonization and militarization. Efforts to "protect and defend" Pågat, a sacred site on the northeastern coast of Guåhan, focus on ancestral land, language and cultural revitalization, and self-determination. They rely primarily on actions that both depend on and reinforce communicative channels directed against the US nation-state. We argue that activism must first be rooted in our sacred spaces to give us strength for contending with American influence and critiquing militarization. Yet it is articulated through rhetoric that demonstrates complex and contradictory identities positioned as simultaneously part of the United States and exterior to it. Understanding these struggles from Guåhan offers an important launching point for efforts connecting ongoing transoceanic dialogues and resistance

Aesthetics · Art · Identity (music · Linguistics · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Sociology · State (computer science · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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