Bravo for the Marshallese Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World

Name: Bravo for the Marshallese Regaining Control in a Post-Nuclear, Post-Colonial World
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ISBN: 9781111833848

ISBN-10: 1111833842

ISBN-13: 9781111833848

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Holly M. Barker

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This case study describes the role an applied anthropologist takes to help Marshallese communities understand the impact of radiation exposure on the environment and themselves, and addresses problems stemming from the U.S. nuclear weapons testing program conducted in the Marshall Islands from 1946-1958. The author demonstrates how the U.S. Government limits its responsibilities for dealing with the problems it created in the Marshall Islands. Through archival, life history, and ethnographic research, the author constructs a compelling history of the testing program from a Marshallese perspective. For more than five decades, the Marshallese have experienced the effects of the weapons…

Book details

List price: $78.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 3/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.13" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Barbara Rose Johnston is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Political Ecology and winner of the Lourdes Arizpe Award for her outstanding contributions in the application of anthropology to environmental issues and discourse. Some of her many important publications are Who Pays the Price?: The Sociocultural Context of Environmental Crisis (1994); Life and Death Matters: Human Rights and the Environment at the End of the Millennium (1997; 2nd ed forthcoming 2008); Disappearing Peoples: Indigenous Groups and Ethnic Minorities in South and Central Asia (2007); and The Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report (forthcoming 2008). Holly M. Barker is the former senior…



Foreword


Preface


Introduction



Setting the Stage: The Geography, Social/Political Organization, and Language of the Marshall Islands


Location and Ecology


Early Migration


The Social and Political Structure


The Marshallese Language and Its Dialects



A Colonial History of the Marshall Islands


Colonial Expansion


U.S. Naval Administration of the Marshall Islands


The Arrival of Anthropologists


The Move toward Self-Governance


The Compact of Free Association



The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Testing Program


The Official U.S. Government Account of the Events


The Limitations on U.S. Government Responsibility


Declassified U.S. Government Documents


Conclusion



Ethnography and a Marshallese Narrative of History


Witness Testimonies: March 1, 1954-The Day the U.S. Government Detonated the Bravo Shot


Witness Testimonies: Evacuation and the Decontamination Process


Witness Testimonies: Birth Defects


Witness Testimonies: Other Medical and Environmental Problems


Witness Testimonies: Interactions with U.S. Government Medical Providers and Scientists


A Marshallese Narrative of History


Conclusion



Alienation from the Land: The Rongelap Experience


The Importance of Geography


The Importance of Land


Damage, Injury, and Loss


Experiences in Exile


The Loss of Self-Sufficiency


Burial


Stigma/Psychological Problems among the "Bombed People"


Gender, Age, and Status in Exile


Conclusion



Language and the Testing Program


Radiation and a Colonial Language of Control


Language as Resistance


Conclusion



Uncovering Themes in Linguistic Data


Assigning Responsibility


Powerlessness


Women's Reproductive Illnesses


A Unique Marshallese Radiation Language


Conclusion



Changed Circumstances: Petitioning the U.S. Government


Advisory Committee on Changed Circumstances


Content of the Petition


Review of the Petition


Conclusion



Other Case Studies


Hiroshima/Nagasaki


French Polynesia


Chernobyl


Nevada


Hanford


Subjects of Human Radiation Experimentation


Conclusion



Methods and Community Empowerment


Developing Bonds of Trust


Learning the Language


Archival Research


Access to Information


Building on the Work of Others


Life Story and Oral History Collection


Local Counterparts and Key Informants


Public Education and Training of Students


Transcription and Translation


Observation


Expect to Be Challenged


Fieldnotes


Repeat Visits to the Field


The Policy Realm


Methods of the NCT Project


Conclusion



Competing Narratives of History


Flaws in the U.S. Government's Accounting of History


A New Narrative of History


Looking toward the Future



The Failure of Reconciliation and the Mobility of Structural Violence


Rongelap Ultimatum


Structural Violence


Mounting Tension


Mixed Messages


Applied and Public Anthropology


Budgetary Cuts Threaten Lives of Washington's Hungry and Sick


Nuclear Claims Tribunal


Anthropology and the Rongelap Land Claim


Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise


Conclusion


Bibliography


Appendix Categories for Personal Injury Awards, Nuclear Claims Tribunal


Glossary


Index