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The Fences that Mark the Boundaries: Expanding the Decolonial Imagination on Guam
This project focuses on American neocolonial militarism on Guam, where the US military occupies approximately one-third of the island’s land. I discuss the pervasion of American military power through the military occupation and examine mixed attitudes toward decolonization through the lens of the metaphorical collective memory of Liberation Day, the island’s most widely-celebrated holiday which marks the end of Japanese WWII occupation after the reoccupation of the US military.