Remade
Sovereign: Decolonizing Guam in the age of environmental anxiety
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12904873 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francisco Delgado (0000-0003-4952-4684, Borough of Manhattan Community College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 682-694 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-16 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Memory Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1750698019894690 |
| OpenAlex | W2995117865 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 16 |
Linking Cultural Memory Studies, Indigenous Studies, as well as the growing field of Environmental Humanities, my article casts decolonization efforts in Guam not only as a process steeped in history, politics, and economics, but also as a necessary means to address environmental precarity. I use Craig Santos Perez’s poetry to highlight the multifaceted scope of decolonization: namely, that it entails the use of the Indigenous Chamorro language, the decolonizing of the imaginations of Chamorro people, who continue to enlist for (and die for) a nation that exploits their lands, waters, and bodies and finally the deliberate retrieval of cultural memory that promotes balance between humans and nature. Cultural memory and decolonization are thus linked. Together, they assuage the environmental impact of settler colonialism in Guam and elsewhere
Colonialism · Decolonization · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Sociology · Sovereignty · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Discontiguous States of America
Your story is our story
Towards an archipelagraphic literary methodology
The Archive and the Repertoire
Destination Chamorro Culture
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native
This Territory was Not Empty
Reflections on Militourism, US Imperialism, and American Studies
Collective Memory
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |