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Securing Paradise : Tourism and Militarism in Hawai'i and the Philippines /
In Securing Paradise, Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai`i and the Philippines, jointly empowering the United States to assert its geostrategic and economic interests in the Pacific. She does so by interpreting fiction, closely examining co...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2013.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction: military-tourism partnerships in Hawai'i and the Philippines
- Manifest destinations and the work of tropical fictions
- Scenic highways, masculinity, modernity, and mobility
- Neoliberation and U.S.-Philippines circuits of sacrifice and gratitude
- Remembering Pearl Harbor, reinforcing vigilance
- The machine in the garden : helicopter airmobilities, aerial fields of vision, and surrogate tropics
- Playing soldier and going native in Subic Freeport's jungle tour
- Conclusion: insecurities, tourism, and terror.