Introduction: Settler Militarism, Racial Liberal Biopolitics, and Social Reproduction Free
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Published:September 2024
This introductory chapter introduces the concept of settler militarism: the dynamic through which settler colonialism and militarization simultaneously perpetuated, legitimated, and concealed one another in Hawai‘i, in a particular convergence specific to US empire building in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Settler militarism operated through a regime of racial liberal biopolitics that optimized the life and labor of Kanaka Maoli, Asian immigrants, and white settlers in Hawai‘i, even as it perpetuated militarized racial logics that demonized Japanese immigrants and settler colonial structures that denied Native sovereignty. During World War II, settler militarism and racial liberal biopolitics operated together in the service of capitalism; collectively, the social reproduction of these structures created the conditions for the late twentieth-century expansion of US military empire.
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