David Vine
Biographic Data
| ID | 128603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Vine |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Vine |
| SIGNATURE | VINE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9339-7320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Alternatives to Militarization
No Bases? Assessing the Impact of Social Movements Challenging US Foreign Military Bases
Militarism and militarization have inspired opposition for millennia. In the post-World War II era, dozens of social movements challenging the existence and operation of US and other foreign (extraterritorial) military bases have provided a prominent example of antimilitarization activism. Movements from Okinawa, Japan, and Jeju, South Korea, to Vieques, Puerto Rico, and Vicenza, Italy, have struggled to close existing bases, stop the constructio…
We’re Profiteers: How Military Contractors Reap Billions from U.S. Military Bases Overseas
It was April 2012, and I was at a swank hotel in downtown London attending "Forward Operating Bases 2012," a conference for contractors building, supplying, and maintaining military bases around the world. IPQC, the private company running the conference, promised the conference would "bring together buyers and suppliers in one location" and "be an excellent platform to initiate new business relationships" through "face-to-face contact that overc…
What If You Can't Protest the Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Military Base on Diego Garcia
The people of the Chagos Archipelago were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the US and British governments created a military base on the people's largest island, Diego Garcia. Since their expulsion, the people, known as Chagossians, have struggled to return to their homeland and win proper compensation. Because US and UK law bar most suits challenging military and…
Married to the Mob: Uncovering the Relationship between the US Military and the Mafia in Southern Italy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid VineDavid Vine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University, in Washington, DC. He is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). He is currently completing a book about the global network of US overseas military bases
“Year That Trembled and Reel’d”: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11
This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following 9/11, we echo the deeply personal nature of the event by offering a selection of first-person reflections fr…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2011
"Public Anthropology" in Its Second Decade: Robert Borofsky's Center for a Public Anthropology
For more than a decade, Robert Borofsky has encouraged anthropologists to pursue a "public anthropology." In this time, he has played a key role in a larger movement that has seen increasing numbers of anthropologists attempting to engage with and serve the needs of public audiences outside academia. In this review essay, I review Borofsky's work through his Center for a Public Anthropology, including the center's website and its four major proje…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, June 2010
Public Anthropology: Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2010
A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews
In this article, we introduce the inaugural issue of the “Public Anthropology Reviews” section. The section will, thus, expose AA readers to some of the new anthropological work appearing in a wide variety of media and nontraditional academic formats that aims both to communicate primarily with nonanthropological audiences and to have an impact on critical issues of wide social significance. We here present the reviews in this issue, identify add…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, December 2010
Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia
The Chagossians are a little-known part of the African diaspora, originally living halfway between continental Africa and Indonesia as the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago. Members of the community are the descendants of enslaved Africans, mostly from Madagascar and the southwestern Mozambique coast, and, to a lesser extent, indentured Indians, brought to the previously uninhabited islands beginning in the late eighteent…
Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia
Between 1968 and 1973, the governments of the United States and Britain forcibly removed the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago to create a military base on the island Diego Garcia. Since their expulsion, the people—known as Chagossians, who are the descendants of enslaved Africans and indentured Indians—have sued the two governments to gain the right of return and reparations. The islanders have won three British High Cou…
Decolonizing Britain in the 21st Century: Chagos Islanders challenge the Crown, House of Lords, 30 June-3 July 2008
This article discusses the anthropological, legal, and political significance of a recent lawsuit before the House of Lords involving the people of the UK-controlled Chagos Archipelago, exiled during creation of the US military base on Diego Garcia. Building on a growing body of anthropological and historical literature about the people and the base, the article reviews the history leading up to the June hearing and describes its proceedings as p…
War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean: The US Military Base at Diego Garcia
Between 1967 and 1973, the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago were forcibly displaced from their homelands so the US Government could construct a strategic military base on the island of Diego Garcia. The people of Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Archipelago now live in poverty in the island nations of Mauritius and Seychelles, nearly 2,000 kilometres from their homes. Analysing formerly classified government docum…
The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences
War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean: The US Military Base at Diego Garcia
Between 1967 and 1973, the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago were forcibly displaced from their homelands so the US Government could construct a strategic military base on the island of Diego Garcia. The people of Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Archipelago now live in poverty in the island nations of Mauritius and Seychelles, nearly 2,000 kilometres from their homes. Analysing formerly classified government docum…
A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews
In this article, we introduce the inaugural issue of the “Public Anthropology Reviews” section. The section will, thus, expose AA readers to some of the new anthropological work appearing in a wide variety of media and nontraditional academic formats that aims both to communicate primarily with nonanthropological audiences and to have an impact on critical issues of wide social significance. We here present the reviews in this issue, identify add…
No Bases? Assessing the Impact of Social Movements Challenging US Foreign Military Bases
Militarism and militarization have inspired opposition for millennia. In the post-World War II era, dozens of social movements challenging the existence and operation of US and other foreign (extraterritorial) military bases have provided a prominent example of antimilitarization activism. Movements from Okinawa, Japan, and Jeju, South Korea, to Vieques, Puerto Rico, and Vicenza, Italy, have struggled to close existing bases, stop the constructio…
"Public Anthropology" in Its Second Decade: Robert Borofsky's Center for a Public Anthropology
For more than a decade, Robert Borofsky has encouraged anthropologists to pursue a "public anthropology." In this time, he has played a key role in a larger movement that has seen increasing numbers of anthropologists attempting to engage with and serve the needs of public audiences outside academia. In this review essay, I review Borofsky's work through his Center for a Public Anthropology, including the center's website and its four major proje…
Decolonizing Britain in the 21st Century: Chagos Islanders challenge the Crown, House of Lords, 30 June-3 July 2008
This article discusses the anthropological, legal, and political significance of a recent lawsuit before the House of Lords involving the people of the UK-controlled Chagos Archipelago, exiled during creation of the US military base on Diego Garcia. Building on a growing body of anthropological and historical literature about the people and the base, the article reviews the history leading up to the June hearing and describes its proceedings as p…
What If You Can't Protest the Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Military Base on Diego Garcia
The people of the Chagos Archipelago were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the US and British governments created a military base on the people's largest island, Diego Garcia. Since their expulsion, the people, known as Chagossians, have struggled to return to their homeland and win proper compensation. Because US and UK law bar most suits challenging military and…
The Asian Financial Crisis: Causes, Contagion and Consequences
War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean: The US Military Base at Diego Garcia
Between 1967 and 1973, the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago were forcibly displaced from their homelands so the US Government could construct a strategic military base on the island of Diego Garcia. The people of Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Archipelago now live in poverty in the island nations of Mauritius and Seychelles, nearly 2,000 kilometres from their homes. Analysing formerly classified government docum…
Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia
Between 1968 and 1973, the governments of the United States and Britain forcibly removed the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago to create a military base on the island Diego Garcia. Since their expulsion, the people—known as Chagossians, who are the descendants of enslaved Africans and indentured Indians—have sued the two governments to gain the right of return and reparations. The islanders have won three British High Cou…
Decolonizing Britain in the 21st Century: Chagos Islanders challenge the Crown, House of Lords, 30 June-3 July 2008
This article discusses the anthropological, legal, and political significance of a recent lawsuit before the House of Lords involving the people of the UK-controlled Chagos Archipelago, exiled during creation of the US military base on Diego Garcia. Building on a growing body of anthropological and historical literature about the people and the base, the article reviews the history leading up to the June hearing and describes its proceedings as p…
Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia
The Chagossians are a little-known part of the African diaspora, originally living halfway between continental Africa and Indonesia as the indigenous people of the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago. Members of the community are the descendants of enslaved Africans, mostly from Madagascar and the southwestern Mozambique coast, and, to a lesser extent, indentured Indians, brought to the previously uninhabited islands beginning in the late eighteent…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, June 2010
Public Anthropology: Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2010
A Sea Change in Anthropology? Public Anthropology Reviews
In this article, we introduce the inaugural issue of the “Public Anthropology Reviews” section. The section will, thus, expose AA readers to some of the new anthropological work appearing in a wide variety of media and nontraditional academic formats that aims both to communicate primarily with nonanthropological audiences and to have an impact on critical issues of wide social significance. We here present the reviews in this issue, identify add…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, December 2010
“Year That Trembled and Reel’d”: Reflections on Public Anthropology a Decade after 9/11
This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following 9/11, we echo the deeply personal nature of the event by offering a selection of first-person reflections fr…
Introducing Public Anthropology Reviews, September 2011
"Public Anthropology" in Its Second Decade: Robert Borofsky's Center for a Public Anthropology
For more than a decade, Robert Borofsky has encouraged anthropologists to pursue a "public anthropology." In this time, he has played a key role in a larger movement that has seen increasing numbers of anthropologists attempting to engage with and serve the needs of public audiences outside academia. In this review essay, I review Borofsky's work through his Center for a Public Anthropology, including the center's website and its four major proje…
What If You Can't Protest the Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Military Base on Diego Garcia
The people of the Chagos Archipelago were forcibly removed from their homeland in the Indian Ocean's Chagos Archipelago in the late 1960s and early 1970s when the US and British governments created a military base on the people's largest island, Diego Garcia. Since their expulsion, the people, known as Chagossians, have struggled to return to their homeland and win proper compensation. Because US and UK law bar most suits challenging military and…
Married to the Mob: Uncovering the Relationship between the US Military and the Mafia in Southern Italy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsDavid VineDavid Vine is assistant professor of anthropology at American University, in Washington, DC. He is the author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia (Princeton University Press, 2009). He is currently completing a book about the global network of US overseas military bases
We’re Profiteers: How Military Contractors Reap Billions from U.S. Military Bases Overseas
It was April 2012, and I was at a swank hotel in downtown London attending "Forward Operating Bases 2012," a conference for contractors building, supplying, and maintaining military bases around the world. IPQC, the private company running the conference, promised the conference would "bring together buyers and suppliers in one location" and "be an excellent platform to initiate new business relationships" through "face-to-face contact that overc…
Alternatives to Militarization
No Bases? Assessing the Impact of Social Movements Challenging US Foreign Military Bases
Militarism and militarization have inspired opposition for millennia. In the post-World War II era, dozens of social movements challenging the existence and operation of US and other foreign (extraterritorial) military bases have provided a prominent example of antimilitarization activism. Movements from Okinawa, Japan, and Jeju, South Korea, to Vieques, Puerto Rico, and Vicenza, Italy, have struggled to close existing bases, stop the constructio…
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