...We Want People for Ourselves<subtitle>Pacification</subtitle> ...

... Bolivia’s inability to protect its borders and valuable natural resources was painfully put in evidence during the disastrous War of the Pacific (1879–83). Chilean capitalists with British backing sought to control the rich saltpeter reserves they had been effectively exploiting in Bolivia’s...

... How can we think about the longstanding, diverse, irreversible, and invisible/suffocating relationship between “America” and the Pacific? This chapter proposes that the nonbiodegradable debris that floats in the North Pacific known as the “great Pacific garbage patch” is an archipelagic metaphor...

... This chapter charts how network nodes are shaped by the politics, histories, and geographies of islands across the Pacific. The chapter counters the existing conceptual opposition between the networks and islands, and instead reveals how islands have been critical to transpacific cable systems...