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Remaking Micronesia : discourses over development in a Pacific territory, 1944-1982 / David Hanlon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [1998]Copyright date: ©1998Description: xv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0824818946
  • 9780824818944
  • 0824820118
  • 9780824820114
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 996.5 21
LOC classification:
  • DU500 .H35 1998
Contents:
1. As the Frigate Bird Flies -- American Ideology in the Postwar Period -- Economics as Culture -- Development as a Discourse of Domination -- The Counterhegemonic Dimensions of Underdevelopment -- A Different Plan for Examining Economic Development in Micronesia -- 2. Beginning to Remake Micronesia -- War and Its Representations -- The Politics of Relief and Restoration -- Other and Earlier Histories of Economic Development -- Military Government: September 1945 to July 1947 -- Belaboring Micronesians -- Development Aside -- "Mild Benevolence" as Strategic Denial -- 3. Strategic Developments -- The Navy's Trust Territory -- The Island Trading Company -- The Colonial Culture of Agriculture -- The Colonizing Politics of Conservation -- Very Telling Stories -- Countering Development: The Case of Angaur -- Savings as First Fruits in Chuuk -- The Role of Cooperatives in the Colonization of Micronesia -- "Our Work in Your Islands": The End of the Naval Administration -- 4. "Planning Micronesia's Future" -- The First Plan -- The "Wisdom" of Solomon and Nathan, Too -- Modernization Theory as Bourgeois Realism -- Other Plans, Other Planners -- The Peace Corps in Paradise -- More Than a Living -- Losing Big -- The Battle of Map -- 5. Congressing over Development -- Gramsci and Guha in Micronesia -- The Beginnings of the Congress of Micronesia -- Planning First -- Consciousness and Criticism in the Congress of Micronesia -- Dreaming the Future -- Differing over Development -- Silent Voices Heard in Chuuk -- 6. Dependency? It Depends -- Money for the West, Kinship to the "Rest" -- "Money for Nothing and Your Frozen Chickens for Free" -- The Reach of U.S. Federal Programs in American Micronesia -- The Politics of Feeding -- Having Their "Cake of Custom" and Eating It Too? -- 7. Dumping on Ebeye -- Metaphor as a Way of Getting to Ebeye -- Beyond Metaphor -- Ebeye, 1978 -- Home, Home on the Kwajalein Missile Range -- Colonial Perceptions and Prescriptions -- Local and Conflicting Agencies -- The Future as a Foreign Country? -- The Continuing Story of Etao -- 8. The End of History for the Edge of Paradise? -- Ending History? -- Negotiations -- The Compact as a "Mechanism" of Continuing Domination -- Debating the Terms of Endowment -- Touring the Edge of Paradise -- Beyond Ends and Edges: Recalculating Economic Development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index.

1. As the Frigate Bird Flies -- American Ideology in the Postwar Period -- Economics as Culture -- Development as a Discourse of Domination -- The Counterhegemonic Dimensions of Underdevelopment -- A Different Plan for Examining Economic Development in Micronesia -- 2. Beginning to Remake Micronesia -- War and Its Representations -- The Politics of Relief and Restoration -- Other and Earlier Histories of Economic Development -- Military Government: September 1945 to July 1947 -- Belaboring Micronesians -- Development Aside -- "Mild Benevolence" as Strategic Denial -- 3. Strategic Developments -- The Navy's Trust Territory -- The Island Trading Company -- The Colonial Culture of Agriculture -- The Colonizing Politics of Conservation -- Very Telling Stories -- Countering Development: The Case of Angaur -- Savings as First Fruits in Chuuk -- The Role of Cooperatives in the Colonization of Micronesia -- "Our Work in Your Islands": The End of the Naval Administration -- 4. "Planning Micronesia's Future" -- The First Plan -- The "Wisdom" of Solomon and Nathan, Too -- Modernization Theory as Bourgeois Realism -- Other Plans, Other Planners -- The Peace Corps in Paradise -- More Than a Living -- Losing Big -- The Battle of Map -- 5. Congressing over Development -- Gramsci and Guha in Micronesia -- The Beginnings of the Congress of Micronesia -- Planning First -- Consciousness and Criticism in the Congress of Micronesia -- Dreaming the Future -- Differing over Development -- Silent Voices Heard in Chuuk -- 6. Dependency? It Depends -- Money for the West, Kinship to the "Rest" -- "Money for Nothing and Your Frozen Chickens for Free" -- The Reach of U.S. Federal Programs in American Micronesia -- The Politics of Feeding -- Having Their "Cake of Custom" and Eating It Too? -- 7. Dumping on Ebeye -- Metaphor as a Way of Getting to Ebeye -- Beyond Metaphor -- Ebeye, 1978 -- Home, Home on the Kwajalein Missile Range -- Colonial Perceptions and Prescriptions -- Local and Conflicting Agencies -- The Future as a Foreign Country? -- The Continuing Story of Etao -- 8. The End of History for the Edge of Paradise? -- Ending History? -- Negotiations -- The Compact as a "Mechanism" of Continuing Domination -- Debating the Terms of Endowment -- Touring the Edge of Paradise -- Beyond Ends and Edges: Recalculating Economic Development -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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