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portada Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and Us Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania
Type
Physical Book
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Author
Language
English
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780226852492

Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and Us Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania

Mitchell, M. X. (Author) · University of Chicago Press · Paperback

Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and Us Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania - Mitchell, M. X.

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Synopsis "Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and Us Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania"

Marshall Islanders and their ancestral lands and waters played important roles in reshaping the United States' offshore power, state sovereignty, and the international politics of decolonization.In the years following World War II, the United States conducted sixty-seven devastating nuclear blasts in the Marshall Islands--yet the archipelago was never a US territory. Working through the United Nations, US diplomats engineered a new, one-of-a-kind extraterritorial status, called strategic trusteeship, to control the Native lands, waters, and peoples of the Marshall, Caroline, and Northern Mariana Islands. Strategic trusteeship permitted the US to militarize a vast expanse of Western Oceania. This novel and racialized legal form of international dependency was integral to US nuclear weapons detonations and damage in the region.In Unsettling Sovereignty, M. X. Mitchell recounts this untold legal history, exploring how nuclear weapons changed claims and practices of sovereignty from the 1940s to the present. US nuclear blasting in the Marshall Islands troubled conventional renderings of state sovereignty under international law. The explosions, disastrous for Marshallese communities and their ancestral atolls, also caused hazardous nuclear fallout, which spread around the globe. Islanders and their allies turned to law, using legal wrangling over blasting and fallout to raise new questions about the location, time, and subjects of state violence in a period of decolonization; the intersections between race, Indigeneity, and wide-scale technogenic harm; and the pitfalls and unfulfilled promises of international law. Mitchell shows that the Marshallese people and their lands and waters were, and remain, central to redefining sovereignty in an era of boundless pollution and climate change.

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