http://www.dmzhawaii.org/?p=3001 protect the 'aina, protect the people, stop military expansion Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:52:27 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.dmzhawaii.org/?p=3001&cpage=1#comment-521 Michael Lujan Bevacqua Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:31:27 +0000 http://www.dmzhawaii.org/?p=3001#comment-521 I'm so glad that Dr. Lutz is doing this sort of work, and when she was on Guam doing research earlier this year I told her how vital her work was in terms of framing my dissertation. She provides some much needed academic support to the arguments of activists seeking demilitarization in the Pacific. In the case of Guam in particular, the majority of the world assumes that as a territory Guam is owned by the US and can therefore do whatever it wants with it. Lutz's work, is one of the few academic voices which can help build counter arguments to this colonizing common sense. This way in which imperialism and colonialism are casually erased, just because a place is small, far away or because the colonizer or the military says so. I’m so glad that Dr. Lutz is doing this sort of work, and when she was on Guam doing research earlier this year I told her how vital her work was in terms of framing my dissertation. She provides some much needed academic support to the arguments of activists seeking demilitarization in the Pacific. In the case of Guam in particular, the majority of the world assumes that as a territory Guam is owned by the US and can therefore do whatever it wants with it. Lutz’s work, is one of the few academic voices which can help build counter arguments to this colonizing common sense. This way in which imperialism and colonialism are casually erased, just because a place is small, far away or because the colonizer or the military says so.

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