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Empire and Environment: Ecological Ruin in the Transpacific
Empire and Environment argues that histories of imperialism, colonialism, militarism, and global capitalism are integral to understanding environmental violence in the transpacific region. The collection draws its rationale from the imbrication of imperialism and global environmental crisis, but its inspiration from the ecological work of activists, artists, and intellectuals across the transpacific region. Taking a postcolonial, ecocritical approach to confronting ecological ruin in an age of ecological crises and environmental catastrophes on a global scale, the collection demonstrates how Asian North American, Asian diasporic, and Indigenous Pacific Island cultural expressions critique a de-historicized sense of place, attachment, and belonging. In addition to its thirteen chapters from scholars who span the Pacific, each part of this volume begins with a poem by Craig Santos Perez. The volume also features a foreword by Macarena Gómez-Barris and an afterword by Priscilla Wald.
Fig. 2.1. Image of live Cycas wadei specimen reviewed for the 1936 Philippine Journal of Science. Series 1, Series 3 (Oversized), Elmer D. Merrill Papers. Archives of the New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx, New York. 28 October 2019. Reproduction permission courtesy of the Archives of the New York Botanical Garden.
Fig. 2.2. Original image of herbarium sheet with C. wadei cones, ovules, and seeds. These structures were photographed and published in the 1936 Philippine Journal of Science. Series 1, Series 3 (Oversized), Elmer D. Merrill Papers. Archives of the New York Botanical Garden, The Bronx, New York. 28 October 2019. Reproduction permission courtesy of the Archives of the New York Botanical Garden.
Fig. 6.1. Image of The Dead Sea II, a multimedia painting created with acrylic and other materials on canvas. Artwork by Nguyễn Văn Tiến, 2017. Reproduction permission courtesy of Nguyễn Văn Tiến.
Fig. 6.2. Image of the painting Fisherman and the Dead Sea, created with acrylic and other materials on canvas. Artwork by Nguyễn Văn Tiến, 2017. Reproduction permission courtesy of Nguyễn Văn Tiến.
Fig. 7.1. The dome on Runit Island with a crater left behind by another nuclear test. Photograph by Greg Nelson, 2017, in “A Poison in Our Island” by Mark Willacy. Reproduction permission courtesy of Mark Willacy.
Fig. 7.2. The dome is unguarded on a low-lying Pacific atoll. Photograph by Greg Nelson, 2017, in “A Poison in Our Island” by Mark Willacy. Reproduction permission courtesy of Mark Willacy.
Fig. 7.3. Bixa orellana, from E. Gilg and K. Schumann, “Das Pflanzenreich. Hausschatz des Wissens” (The plant kingdom: Treasure of knowledge), ca. 1900. (Published online by Kurt Stüber, www.biolib.de; available at Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=651669)
Fig. 10.1. Scanned image of a skywalk footpath in Taipei with text on page 82 and 83 of Fang, Hui-chen 房慧真 Heliu 河流 (River), Yinke wenxue, 2013. Reproduction permission courtesy of the author, Fang Hui-chen 房慧真.