Christine Taitano DeLisle
Biographic Data
| ID | 4998987 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Taitano DeLisle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine Taitano |
| FAMILY NAME | DeLisle |
| SIGNATURE | DELISLE C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Christine Taitano Delisle is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research and teaching interests include: U.S. race, gender, and empire; history of the Pacific Islands; militarism and colonialism in the Pacific; women's history; native Pacific cultural studies; indigenous feminisms; museum studies; and colonial photography. She is currently working on a book, which examines the complex relations... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A History of Chamorro Nurse-Midwives in Guam and a “Placental Politics” for Indigenous Feminism
Guam’s prewar history under US naval colonial rule, what the Navy dubbed as the ‘long road to rehabilitation,’ was comprised of or constituted through public health, public works and public education. The Navy targeted the pattera , many of whom doubled as suruhåna and who relied on Chamorro medicine and massage to treat women during different life cycles, because they were directly responsible for ‘delivering the body,’ literally and discursivel…
Destination Chamorro Culture
Destination Chamorro Culture:Notes on Realignment, Rebranding, and Post-9/11 Militourism in Guam Christine Taitano DeLisle (bio) Buried in the nine-volume, eleven-thousand-page 2009 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) of the US realignment of eight thousand marines from Okinawa to Guam is an example of the insidiousness of US militarism and the harrowing symbiosis between militarism and tourism—the conjoining forces of power in Oceania th…
Guamanian-Chamorro by Birth but American Patriotic by Choice”
On July 3, 1945, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) aired a live fifteen-minute broadcast of events overseas in the United States territory of Guam where, as the proverbial adage goes, “ America's day begins.” July 4th festivities were already underway on the war-torn island that a year earlier had been the site of intense battles during World War II in the “Pacific Theater.” Following the flag-raising ceremony in the capital city of Hagatna …
Destination Chamorro Culture
Destination Chamorro Culture:Notes on Realignment, Rebranding, and Post-9/11 Militourism in Guam Christine Taitano DeLisle (bio) Buried in the nine-volume, eleven-thousand-page 2009 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) of the US realignment of eight thousand marines from Okinawa to Guam is an example of the insidiousness of US militarism and the harrowing symbiosis between militarism and tourism—the conjoining forces of power in Oceania th…
Guamanian-Chamorro by Birth but American Patriotic by Choice”
On July 3, 1945, the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) aired a live fifteen-minute broadcast of events overseas in the United States territory of Guam where, as the proverbial adage goes, “ America's day begins.” July 4th festivities were already underway on the war-torn island that a year earlier had been the site of intense battles during World War II in the “Pacific Theater.” Following the flag-raising ceremony in the capital city of Hagatna …
Destination Chamorro Culture
Destination Chamorro Culture:Notes on Realignment, Rebranding, and Post-9/11 Militourism in Guam Christine Taitano DeLisle (bio) Buried in the nine-volume, eleven-thousand-page 2009 Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) of the US realignment of eight thousand marines from Okinawa to Guam is an example of the insidiousness of US militarism and the harrowing symbiosis between militarism and tourism—the conjoining forces of power in Oceania th…
A History of Chamorro Nurse-Midwives in Guam and a “Placental Politics” for Indigenous Feminism
Guam’s prewar history under US naval colonial rule, what the Navy dubbed as the ‘long road to rehabilitation,’ was comprised of or constituted through public health, public works and public education. The Navy targeted the pattera , many of whom doubled as suruhåna and who relied on Chamorro medicine and massage to treat women during different life cycles, because they were directly responsible for ‘delivering the body,’ literally and discursivel…
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