Exceptional state [electronic resource] : contemporary U.S. culture and the new imperialism / edited by Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.

Contributor(s): Dawson, Ashley, 1965- | Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, c2007Description: 311 pISBN: 9780822389644Subject(s): Political culture -- United States | Popular culture -- United States | Imperialism | Militarism -- United States | Globalization -- Political aspects -- United States | Millennialism -- Political aspects -- United States | Imperialism in literature | United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009 | United States -- Civilization -- 1970- | United States -- Military policyGenre/Form: Electronic books.LOC classification: E902 | .E96 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction : rethinking imperialism today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller -- Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease -- Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti -- Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour -- Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe -- Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller -- Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister -- Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson -- Coda : information mastery and the culture of annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-300) and index.

Introduction : rethinking imperialism today / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller -- Culture, US imperialism, and globalization / John Carlos Rowe -- Between the homeland and Abu Ghraib : dwelling in Bush's biopolitical settlement / Donald E. Pease -- Planet America : the revolution in military affairs as fantasy and fetish / Christian Parenti -- Hegemony and rights : on the liberal justification for empire / Omar Dahbour -- Updating the gendered empire : where are the women of occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? / Cynthia Enloe -- Techno-dominance and torturegate : the making of US imperialism / Malini Johar Schueller -- Left behind and the politics of prophecy talk / Melani McAlister -- Putting an old Africa on our map : British imperial legacies and contemporary US culture / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- New modes of anti-imperialism / Ashley Dawson -- Coda : information mastery and the culture of annihilation / Ashley Dawson and Malini Johar Schueller.

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