Island of Shame
The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7306150 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Ann Hei (corresponding author), Mary Ann Heiss (Kent State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 369-370 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jas120 |
| OpenAlex | W2056696890 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
David Vine's Island of Shame is a sobering account of the development of the highly secret U.S. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the cost the island's indigenous people, the Chagossians, paid for its construction. At the height of the decolonization movement in 1965, Diego Garcia was detached from the soon-to-be-independent British colony of Mauritius and joined with three other island groups associated with the Seychelles (Aldabra, Desroches, and Farquhar) to form a new colony, the British Indian Ocean Territory. After gaining access to Diego Garcia, U.S. officials sought to prevent the problems that had accompanied the development of bases in populated areas by having several hundred Chagossians summarily resettled in Mauritius or the Seychelles. They received little notice of their impending deportation, were permitted to take few possessions with them, and found their new homes less than welcoming. Subsequent legal challenges to their forced expulsion have netted mixed results, with lower-level victories in Britain falling victim to full-on government opposition. Chagossian efforts to seek redress in U.S. court have been similarly unsuccessful
Ancient history · Art · Dignity · Ethnology · Garcia · Geography · Government (linguistics · Humanities · Indian ocean · Indigenous · Military Base · Notice · Opposition (politics · Political science · Redress · Shame · Sociology · Economic Zones and Regional Development · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Law · Maritime Security and History · Oceanography
Postcolonial geographies and colonialism's mutations
Striking the empire back
The Evolution of Transnational Environmental Law
Decolonising the special relationship
Mauritian sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago? Strategic implications for Diego Garcia from a UK-US perspective
Diaoyu Dao, Diaoyutai or Senkaku? Creative solutions to a festering dispute in the East China Sea from an ‘Island Studies’ perspective
The Secret Empire of Signals Intelligence
Sacred Men
States, anthropological complicity, and theorizing the political
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |