Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 800629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evyn Lê Espiritu |
| FAMILY NAME | Gandhi |
| SIGNATURE | GANDHI E L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Refugee Lifeworlds
Reviewed by: Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia by Y-Dang Troeung Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (bio) Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, by Y-Dang Troeung. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022. Xxvii + 223 pp. $29.95 paperback. ISBN 978-1439921760. Chapter 1 of Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia opens with a photograph that Y-Dang Troeung encountered in the archive…
Archipelago of Resettlement
From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicate…
Archipelago of Resettlement
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espi…
Southern Memory, Southern Metaphor
This essay takes the juxtaposition of South Vietnamese and Confederate flags at the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot as a point of departure for thinking through southern metaphors and southern memories connecting South Vietnam and the US South. It analyzes cultural productions by 1.5 generation South Vietnamese refugees—Andrew Lam's short story "Show and Tell" and An-My Lê's photographic series Silent General—to trace the ways in which South Vietnam…
Asian-Indigenous Relations across Hemispheres, Oceans, and Islands
Asian-Indigenous Relations across Hemispheres, Oceans, and Islands Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (bio) Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas. By Quynh Nhu Le. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. 250 pages. $99.50 (cloth). $39.95 (paper). Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. By Juliana Hu Pegues. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 232 pages. $95.00 …
Indigenous Soldiering
Historicizing the Transpacific Settler Colonial Condition
This article introduces the concept of a transpacific settler colonial condition, a term which captures the interconnected nature of Indigenous struggles against settler colonialism across the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, given shared histories of American empire and military violence. In order to historicize the transpacific settler colonial condition's coarticulation with Asian American political subjectivity, ever since the Asian A…
Genealogizing Pō
The first half of this article draws from the keynote lecture delivered by Joyce Pualani Warren in which she theorizes an Indigenous Pacific conception of origins that encompasses notions of Blackness and kinship. Warren argues that using knowledge of Pō can offer a model of kinship and enhanced support for Indigeneity and Indigenous futures. The second half of this article features Warren's response to questions and prompts posed by Keith L. Cam…
"Introduction to "Pacific Worlds
Dr. Gandhi provides a brief overview of the origins and goals of the Pacific Worlds Symposium and the three following documents in this special subsection of Ethnic Studies Review. The symposium was co-sponsored by several University of California campuses. This introductory statement includes a list of additional recommended readings offered in addition to the citations included by the panelists and their individual papers
Historicizing the Transpacific Settler Colonial Condition
This article introduces the concept of a transpacific settler colonial condition, a term which captures the interconnected nature of Indigenous struggles against settler colonialism across the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific Islands, given shared histories of American empire and military violence. In order to historicize the transpacific settler colonial condition's coarticulation with Asian American political subjectivity, ever since the Asian A…
Genealogizing Pō
The first half of this article draws from the keynote lecture delivered by Joyce Pualani Warren in which she theorizes an Indigenous Pacific conception of origins that encompasses notions of Blackness and kinship. Warren argues that using knowledge of Pō can offer a model of kinship and enhanced support for Indigeneity and Indigenous futures. The second half of this article features Warren's response to questions and prompts posed by Keith L. Cam…
"Introduction to "Pacific Worlds
Dr. Gandhi provides a brief overview of the origins and goals of the Pacific Worlds Symposium and the three following documents in this special subsection of Ethnic Studies Review. The symposium was co-sponsored by several University of California campuses. This introductory statement includes a list of additional recommended readings offered in addition to the citations included by the panelists and their individual papers
Archipelago of Resettlement
From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi analyzes these two cases to theorize what she calls the refugee settler condition: the fraught positionality of refugee subjects whose resettlement in a settler colonial state is predicate…
Archipelago of Resettlement
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org . What happens when refugees encounter Indigenous sovereignty struggles in the countries of their resettlement? From April to November 1975, the US military processed over 112,000 Vietnamese refugees on the unincorporated territory of Guam; from 1977 to 1979, the State of Israel granted asylum and citizenship to 366 non-Jewish Vietnamese refugees. Evyn Lê Espi…
Southern Memory, Southern Metaphor
This essay takes the juxtaposition of South Vietnamese and Confederate flags at the January 6, 2021 Capitol Riot as a point of departure for thinking through southern metaphors and southern memories connecting South Vietnam and the US South. It analyzes cultural productions by 1.5 generation South Vietnamese refugees—Andrew Lam's short story "Show and Tell" and An-My Lê's photographic series Silent General—to trace the ways in which South Vietnam…
Asian-Indigenous Relations across Hemispheres, Oceans, and Islands
Asian-Indigenous Relations across Hemispheres, Oceans, and Islands Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (bio) Unsettled Solidarities: Asian and Indigenous Cross-Representations in the Américas. By Quynh Nhu Le. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019. 250 pages. $99.50 (cloth). $39.95 (paper). Space-Time Colonialism: Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements. By Juliana Hu Pegues. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. 232 pages. $95.00 …
Indigenous Soldiering
Refugee Lifeworlds
Reviewed by: Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia by Y-Dang Troeung Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (bio) Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia, by Y-Dang Troeung. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022. Xxvii + 223 pp. $29.95 paperback. ISBN 978-1439921760. Chapter 1 of Refugee Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia opens with a photograph that Y-Dang Troeung encountered in the archive…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · History (7 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works)