Heidi Amin-Hong
Biographic Data
| ID | 6649949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heidi Amin-Hong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heidi |
| FAMILY NAME | Amin-Hong |
| SIGNATURE | AMIN-HONG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4016-6892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sensing Asian/American Matter
This conversation between visual artist Candice Lin and Heidi Amin-Hong, scholar of Asian American studies and the environment, explores how Lin’s artistic practices contribute to an understanding of Asian/America as constituted by matters that circulate across histories of empire, racism, and environmental extraction. We discuss how Lin’s art tracks the stories of vibrant matter—such as bacteria, porcelain, clay, lard, and manganese—to remind us…
Beyond Kinh(ship)
In 1954, the US expanded its military presence in South Viet Nam following decolonization from France, claiming to help refugees escape communism. However, Vietnamese people rarely use the term “refugee,” seeing themselves as internally displaced people who never crossed international borders. I examine how the concept of “refugee” functions as a settler colonial technology that fosters Vietnamese settler refugeeism, serving both the US empire an…
Ecologies of Memory
This essay proposes ecological forms of memory that unsettle dominant processes of remembering war that privilege nationalist narratives of heroism and conquest in mourning the loss of human life. Instead, we theorize an aesthetic relationship between refugee memory and more-than-human witnessing that offers an avenue to remember militarized landscapes differently. While nationalist practices of memory often demand cohesion around a collective id…
From Yosemite to the Cold War
In a moment of rising East Asian global tourism and heightened anti-Asian violence in public space, what does it mean for Asian bodies to see and be seen in the outdoors? Analyzing Dinh Q. Le's daguerreotypes of Yosemite alongside C. Pam Zhang's novel How Much of These Hills is Gold , this article traces an emerging archive of contemporary Asian American literature and visual art that imagines Asian American entanglements with the fraught settler…
The World We Became
Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, this essay introduces a speculative cartography experiment entitled The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 . A collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists, this digital humanities project maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. Intentionally p…
Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of multispecies kinship
Craig Santos Perez’s ecopoetry challenges the “rescue and recovery” narratives of species conservation embedded in processes of settler colonialism and militarism. Reading Perez’s poetry on the extinction of Guam’s avian life alongside the establishment of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge, its environmental impact testimonies, and avian conservation plans, this article develops a theory of ecological kinship that accounts for the dispersed effec…
Militarized Sustainability
Tracing the genesis of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1966 as a product of U.S. militarism in Vietnam and Japanese imperial ambitions, this essay shows that ADB-funded energy, sustainability, and risk management projects are inseparable from the racialized and sexualized legacies of war and empire. American engagement with hydropower planning reveals how U.S. interests in energy and infrastructural development justified military escalation o…
Introduction
Introduction by issue editors.This issue represents our journal’s first appearance after the onset of what multiple Americanists have referred to, and not in overly positive fashion, as the “Age of Trump.” A central theme of Trump administration discourse is its strident defense of physical borders manifested in harshly exclusionary policies, most notably the administration’s abandoning of the existing DACA program, as well as fostering increased…
Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of multispecies kinship
Craig Santos Perez’s ecopoetry challenges the “rescue and recovery” narratives of species conservation embedded in processes of settler colonialism and militarism. Reading Perez’s poetry on the extinction of Guam’s avian life alongside the establishment of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge, its environmental impact testimonies, and avian conservation plans, this article develops a theory of ecological kinship that accounts for the dispersed effec…
Introduction
Introduction by issue editors.This issue represents our journal’s first appearance after the onset of what multiple Americanists have referred to, and not in overly positive fashion, as the “Age of Trump.” A central theme of Trump administration discourse is its strident defense of physical borders manifested in harshly exclusionary policies, most notably the administration’s abandoning of the existing DACA program, as well as fostering increased…
Introduction
Introduction by issue editors.This issue represents our journal’s first appearance after the onset of what multiple Americanists have referred to, and not in overly positive fashion, as the “Age of Trump.” A central theme of Trump administration discourse is its strident defense of physical borders manifested in harshly exclusionary policies, most notably the administration’s abandoning of the existing DACA program, as well as fostering increased…
Militarized Sustainability
Tracing the genesis of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in 1966 as a product of U.S. militarism in Vietnam and Japanese imperial ambitions, this essay shows that ADB-funded energy, sustainability, and risk management projects are inseparable from the racialized and sexualized legacies of war and empire. American engagement with hydropower planning reveals how U.S. interests in energy and infrastructural development justified military escalation o…
The World We Became
Tackling how racial justice and climate crisis are entangled, this essay introduces a speculative cartography experiment entitled The World We Became: Map Quest 2350 . A collaboration between a collective of artists, poets, academics, curators, architects, and activists, this digital humanities project maps global ecological crises and shared Black, Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, Caribbean, and Indigenous futures. Intentionally p…
Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of multispecies kinship
Craig Santos Perez’s ecopoetry challenges the “rescue and recovery” narratives of species conservation embedded in processes of settler colonialism and militarism. Reading Perez’s poetry on the extinction of Guam’s avian life alongside the establishment of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge, its environmental impact testimonies, and avian conservation plans, this article develops a theory of ecological kinship that accounts for the dispersed effec…
From Yosemite to the Cold War
In a moment of rising East Asian global tourism and heightened anti-Asian violence in public space, what does it mean for Asian bodies to see and be seen in the outdoors? Analyzing Dinh Q. Le's daguerreotypes of Yosemite alongside C. Pam Zhang's novel How Much of These Hills is Gold , this article traces an emerging archive of contemporary Asian American literature and visual art that imagines Asian American entanglements with the fraught settler…
Beyond Kinh(ship)
In 1954, the US expanded its military presence in South Viet Nam following decolonization from France, claiming to help refugees escape communism. However, Vietnamese people rarely use the term “refugee,” seeing themselves as internally displaced people who never crossed international borders. I examine how the concept of “refugee” functions as a settler colonial technology that fosters Vietnamese settler refugeeism, serving both the US empire an…
Ecologies of Memory
This essay proposes ecological forms of memory that unsettle dominant processes of remembering war that privilege nationalist narratives of heroism and conquest in mourning the loss of human life. Instead, we theorize an aesthetic relationship between refugee memory and more-than-human witnessing that offers an avenue to remember militarized landscapes differently. While nationalist practices of memory often demand cohesion around a collective id…
Sensing Asian/American Matter
This conversation between visual artist Candice Lin and Heidi Amin-Hong, scholar of Asian American studies and the environment, explores how Lin’s artistic practices contribute to an understanding of Asian/America as constituted by matters that circulate across histories of empire, racism, and environmental extraction. We discuss how Lin’s art tracks the stories of vibrant matter—such as bacteria, porcelain, clay, lard, and manganese—to remind us…
Asian American and Pacific Histories (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (4 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)