Becoming 'Pearl Harbor': A 'Lost Geography' of American Empire

dc.contributor.advisor Jones, Reece
dc.contributor.author Kajihiro, Kyle
dc.contributor.department Geography and Environment
dc.date.accessioned 2015-10-02T20:49:43Z
dc.date.available 2015-10-02T20:49:43Z
dc.date.issued 2014-05
dc.description MA University of Hawaii at Manoa 2014
dc.description Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120–141).
dc.description.abstract In the last century, geography assumed a position of central importance within the United States' imperial project. Yet the rise of capitalist globalism was accompanied by a corresponding loss of popular geographic awareness within the United States, a paradox that Neil Smith (2004) has called a "lost geography" of American Empire. Through a case study of the transformation of Ke Awalau o Puʻuloa on the island of Oʻahu into what most people know today as "Pearl Harbor" this thesis extends the concept of a "lost geography" by examining the dialectical relationship between the production of a particular place and the multi-scalar articulations of U.S. imperial formation. In short, this study considers how place and empire are mutually constituted in ways that conceal their constitutive social relations. Further, I discuss the "paradoxical" subjectivities that emerge in this process.
dc.format.extent ix, 141 leaves
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/100341
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher [Honolulu] : [University of Hawaii at Manoa], [May 2014]
dc.relation Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Geography.
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dc.subject Ke Awalau o Puuloa
dc.subject Pearl Harbor
dc.subject militarization
dc.subject imperial formation
dc.subject lost geography
dc.title Becoming 'Pearl Harbor': A 'Lost Geography' of American Empire
dc.type Thesis
dc.type.dcmi Text
local.thesis.degreelevel MA
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