Reframing Displacements in the U.S. Pacific and Asia/Pacific Field-Imaginary

In this essay, I invoke three large-scale displacements taking place in the postcolonial Pacific, considered as a region of transnational impact, flow, encounter, and contact zone: ecological, financial, and semiotic. I will here be concentrating more on the last framework in the context of the former two, but I will be urging that we read literary-cultural texts and sign-flows in these larger planetary, geo-material, and global/local contexts that would implicate postmodern/postcolonial modes of semiotic "displacement" (as such) in the very material dynamics of ecological and financial imbalance, catastrophe, and unrest. I want thereby to contest the limits of any too-loosely tropological or text-centered displacement models that are transforming the postcolonial field imaginaries of Asia/Pacific study in productive, if uneven, ways

Archaeology · Cognitive reframing · CONTEST · Context (archaeology · Displacement (psychology · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Political science · Politics · Semiotics · Sign (mathematics · Sociology · The Imaginary · Unrest · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Philosophy

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