Almost Futures Sovereignty and Refuge at World's End

"Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price for progress throughout war and capitalist globalization-particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees-for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future's promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) ami...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press 2024
[2024]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Critical refugee studies ; 6.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009836129106719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : almost
  • The sovereignty of grief : land protest and speculative time
  • Assemblages of laughter and sorrow : women workers and allegorical fragments
  • Iterant remains : witnessing sovereign violence
  • History interrupted : the death of South Vietnam and refugee hauntings
  • Untimely habitation : irreconcilability and refugee memory.