Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2037989
Michael R. Jin
ABSTRACT This essay explores the historical erasures of Korean and U.S.-born Japanese American (Nisei) survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing. Since 1945, the Korean survivors of Hiroshima have struggled for redress as South Korea has remained a crucial part of the U.S. Cold War nuclear umbrella. As American civilians, the Nisei atomic bomb survivors have also found themselves unrecognized by their country as victims of the U.S. nuclear violence. The struggles of Korean and Nisei A-bomb survivors for historical recognition reveal the colonial, racial, and state violence that remain unredressed in the U.S. “empire for liberty” well into the twenty-first century.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2038506
Davorn Sisavath
ABSTRACT This essay focuses on cluster bombs and war metals, and links militarism, war, and violence to how people continue to experience the legacies of the Cold War. I ask the following questions: How might the collateralization and legacy of military violence serve to illuminate a dimension of the Cold War as ongoing? What does it mean to engage with the Cold War and the different forms of entanglements and violence that persist in the present? By examining cluster bombs and war metals, I argue these material objects make visible the militarized context of America’s ongoing presence in Laos.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2036564
Kirisitina Sailiata
Reform The Pacific (a)isleways are a tinned food paradise of cream crackers, pisupo, ‘eleni, spaghetti, baked beans, wahoo, spam, and more. A vertical garden of fleshy cans advertised with silk flowers. Foods processed, pressed, packed, sealed and re-formed into new territories, shapes, and textures. Peering into our household pantry, I will find those familiar cans loud amidst stacks of saimini, packets of flavored drink powder, styrofoam cones of koko, tubs of margarine, long sleeves of sliced bread, and, perhaps, a wheel of Danish butter cookies. I will find a feast for the apocalypse.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.2021775
Keva X. Bui
ABSTRACT This article examines napalm as an epistemology of U.S militarism, developing the framework of “objects of warfare” to describe political relations intertwined with racialized personhood and militarized objecthood. The first half traces the racial logics of infrastructural warfare in the Vietnam War, while the second situates the construction of Asian racial form via liberal humanism within cultural representations of napalm in the war’s afterlives. By examining the interrelatedness of napalm’s physical violence and its political effects, this article suggests objects of warfare offer a framework to trace links between militarized objecthood and the lingering specters of Cold War liberalism and imperialism.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2036537
G. Chung
ABSTRACT In this paper, I argue that the Cold War’s militarized and imperialist logic has entangled with racialized migrant “illegality” to shape undocumented Korean immigrants’ (in)voluntary enlistment in the MAVNI program. Drawing on several years of ethnographic research, I examine how young undocumented Koreans were mobilized in service of the US’s imperial project to sustain its global supremacy through the “War on Terror.” In particular, I attend to the way militarized imperialism embedded within U.S. citizenship becomes intimately tied to the transnational ideologies of South Korean militarized citizenship as experienced by the unprivileged descendants of the unending Cold War. The neoliberal practices of the DREAM Act and DACA only reinforced this connection. Focusing on the undocumented-to-military trajectory, this study contributes to interrogate the temporality of the racialized migrant “illegality” of Asian immigrants within the larger historical context of U.S. militarized imperialism in Asia during the unending Cold War.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.2009419
Christopher Chien
ABSTRACT Hong Kong’s plastic flower export starting in the 1950s helped to cement U.S. transpacific supply chains as the city continued to facilitate political economic contact with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) after its founding. For U.S. middle-class households, Hong Kong-made plastic flowers became a visual object that embodied race as a material force, signifying variously a fetishized “barbaric communist labor” and desirable, low-cost foreign labor. This essay examines Hong Kong’s Cold War industrial history alongside Hong Kong American artist Shirley Tse’s Polymathicstyrene. Tse’s plastic sculpture hyper-visualizes labor as such, which may offer pathways for unsettling the state’s political fetishism.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2036536
Ka-eul Yoo
ABSTRACT This article examines how and why Hansen’s disease (leprosy) patients in South Korea emerged as a Cold War ideological battleground. Against the backdrop of U.S. wars of intervention in Asia, I argue that Cold War narratives of contagion used medical terms to conflate “infectious” ideologies and Hansen’s disease. Through reading Litany of Hope (1962), a film produced by the United States Information Service and loosely based on the life of Korean poet and former Hansen’s disease patient Han Ha-un, I analyze how U.S. Cold War ideology characterized Hansen’s disease patients in South Korea as recuperable internal enemies in need of humanitarian medical intervention.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2044978
C. Baik, Wendy Cheng
ABSTRACT In this special issue, guest editors Crystal Mun-hye Baik and Wendy Cheng discuss the prolongation of the Cold War in the twenty-first century. Foregrounding the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and class-based dynamics of the Cold War, the authors are attentive to the entwined histories of imperialism, racial-settler capitalism, and militarism constitutive of the Cold War. Focusing on reformation as a generative analytic in which to engage the Cold War’s lives in Asia, Oceania, and the United States, Baik and Cheng situate the special issue’s contributions in relation to Asian American studies, Pacific Islander studies, and critical Asian studies.
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