Covert Capital

Landscapes of Denial and the Making of U.S. Empire in the Suburbs of Northern Virginia

Bibliographic Data

ID20033643
AuthorsAndrew L Friedman (0000-0002-2188-3821, corresponding author), Andrew Friedman (0009-0008-1003-8826)
Year2013
Pages416
Publication date2013-08-02
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueCovert Capital Landscapes Of Denial And The Making Of Us Empire In The Suburbs Of Northern Virginia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520274648.001.0001
OpenAlexW4253183780
Open LibraryOL26074945M
ISBN9780520274648
LanguageEN
Citations received23

This spatial and cultural history chronicles how the CIA and other national security institutions that defined US foreign policy in the era of global decolonization created domestic space around their own headquarters and abroad. The book argues for an alternate genealogy for US migration by tracing social and family relationships formed during violent US endeavors, which carried American agents abroad and migrants from Vietnam, El Salvador, Iran, and elsewhere home to the District of Columbia suburbs. As the US empire expressed itself abroad by developing roads, embassies, and villages, its subjects arrived in the covert capital as real estate agents, home owners, mall builders, and landscapers, constructing places and living monuments that both nurtured and critiqued postwar US foreign policy and global operations. In telling this geopolitical landscape’s full story for the first time, Covert Capital aims to renew interdisciplinary conversations about the nature of US citizenship, nationalism, global interconnection, and ethical responsibility by linking the country’s so-called foreign affairs with its most seemingly local and domestic moments. Ushering the study of the US empire into everyday life, the book explains how an imperial US citizenship was lived and disavowed in everyday space and re-narrates the history of postwar suburbanization as the spatial device that helped produce an imperial citizenry and subjectivity

Covert · Linguistics · Computer Science · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Philosophy · 1961-1975 · Architecture · Buildings, structures · Federal areas within states · History · Intelligence service · Social aspects · Social conditions · Suburbs · united states · United States. Central Intelligence Agency · Vietnam war

Tools

Open DOILibgen