ASCL 70.27 Geographies and Ecologies of Warfare in Asia & the Pacific

This course surveys the ecological and historical impacts of U.S.-occupied military bases in Asia and the Pacific Islands, through the activism and scholarship of Asians and Pacific Islanders. It brings together the fields of critical Asian studies, Asian American studies, geography, gender studies, and Indigenous studies to comparatively analyze the place-based forms that U.S. militarism, settler colonialism, and empire can take in U.S.-occupied American Samoa, Bikini Islands, Guåhan/Guam, Hawai\u02BBi, Korea, Okinawa, Vietnam, and the Philippines. Guided by the course instructor, students will engage Asian and Pacific Islander scholarship through course readings, films, podcasts, poems, and guest lectures featuring Asian and Pacific Islander demilitarization organizers. The course will culminate in a final Story Maps project that analyzes a social movement discussed in class and presents the group’s findings about it in multimedia form.

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:INT or SOC; WCult:NW

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Department-Specific Course Categories

Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages