Legacy Of Occupation Research Articles

Situating Blackness and Antiracism in a Global Frame: Key Works for a Study of the Dominican Republic

This syllabus provides a starting point for those interested in learning and teaching about race and Blackness in the Dominican Republic, both within and beyond the U.S. academic context. While the dominant narrative emerging from the United States tends to cast all Dominicans as both anti-Black and anti-Haitian, the Dominican Republic has a long history of Black liberation that can be understood only if we pay attention to the complicated, nuanced, and historical ways in which race and national identities, as in all places, have been constructed by various groups and forces. This reading list provides a point of departure for understanding the many scholarly and public-facing works in English that have, over the past decade, grappled with these many complications of race, nation, and identity-making. Specifically, it traces the three main frameworks that have become axiomatic in the field for contextualizing Dominican concepts of race and nation: (1) island-wide struggles for sovereignty and emancipation across the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, (2) the powerful forces of neocolonialism that facilitated U.S. occupation of the island in the early twentieth century, and (3) the struggles for modern sovereignty and the legacies of occupation that resulted in dictatorial leadership across Hispaniola, namely by François and Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti and Rafael Trujillo and Joaquín Balaguer in the Dominican Republic.

Infrastructures of empire: towards a critical geopolitics of media and information studies

The Arab Uprisings of 2011 can be seen as a turning point for media and information studies scholars, many of whom newly discovered the region as a site for theories of digital media and social transformation. This work has argued that digital media technologies fuel or transform political change through new networked publics, new forms of connective action cultivating liberal democratic values. These works have, surprisingly, little to say about the United States and other Western colonial powers’ legacy of occupation, ongoing violence and strategic interests in the region. It is as if the Arab Spring was a vindication for the universal appeal of Western liberal democracy delivered through the gift of the Internet, social media as manifestation of the ‘technologies of freedom’ long promised by Cold War. We propose an alternate trajectory in terms of reorienting discussions of media and information infrastructures as embedded within the resurgence of idealized liberal democratic norms in the wake of the end of the Cold War. We look at the demise of the media and empire debates and ‘the rise of the BRICS’ (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) as modes of intra-imperial competition that complicate earlier Eurocentric narratives media and empire. We then outline the individual contributions for the special collection of essays.

A 'Moral Mandate' for Occupation: The British Churches and Voluntary Organizations in North-Western Germany, 1945-1949

Recent military interventions by the West highlight persistent and unresolved problems regarding future foreign policy. Reconsidering the wider legacy and precedent of the British occupation of Germany from 1945 is critical in understanding these debates. Addressing a neglected topic, this article examines whether Britain reconciled its liberal democratic values as an occupying power, and in particular how its government tried to invoke the Christian ‘moral mandate’ of the British churches and voluntary organizations as an instrumental feature of policy, part of its civilizing mission in Germany. Central to this, however, were manifest contradictions between the churches’ rhetorical efforts to help the presentation of the moral case for military rule, and a policy vacuum that offered few practical measures to help German civilians, and especially expellees and refugees. Moreover, Britain's claims of moral leadership were at odds with its decision to delegate refugee matters to the German authorities. There were major differences in approach by church leaders, Whitehall ministers and civilian administrators in Germany in assessing how magnanimous to be in their treatment of Germany. With greater unanimity of purpose, humanitarian initiatives might have had greater success and become a more uniting symbol for reconciliation. The main failing was in the churches’ inability to modify government policy. Compassionate rhetoric and humanitarian relief efforts could not repair the damage caused by earlier political decisions to marginalize forced migrants that effectively punished them as Germans, a legacy of the occupation often sidestepped in order to focus on greater British achievements.

America's overseas garrisons: the leasehold empire

Introduction A tale of Two Empires The Colonial Dimension The Revival of War-Time Arrangements Neo-Colonial Bases From Conquest to Containment The Legacy of Occupation From Conquest to Containment - Asia From Conquest to Containment Europe New Allies in the Mediterranean Resistance in the Middle East The End of 'Empire'

Book reviews : The Gaza Strip: the political economy of de-development By SARA ROY (Washington DC, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995), 375pp. $27.95. Gaza: Legacy of Occupation a photographer's journey By DICK DOUGHTY and MOHAMMED EL AYDI (West Hartford, CT, Kumarian Press. 1995), 202pp. $15.95

Book reviews : The Gaza Strip: the political economy of de-development By SARA ROY (Washington DC, Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995), 375pp. $27.95. Gaza: Legacy of Occupation a photographer's journey By DICK DOUGHTY and MOHAMMED EL AYDI (West Hartford, CT, Kumarian Press. 1995), 202pp. $15.95

Gaza, Legacy of Occupation, A Photographer's Journey, Dick Doughty and Mohammed El Aydi

Gaza, Legacy of Occupation, A Photographer's Journey, Dick Doughty and Mohammed El Aydi

The Legacy of Occupation —Russian Speakers in the Baltics

The Legacy of Occupation —Russian Speakers in the Baltics