Cold War Reformations

Abstract

ABSTRACT In this special issue, guest editors Crystal Mun-hye Baik and Wendy Cheng discuss the prolongation of the Cold War in the twenty-first century. Foregrounding the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and class-based dynamics of the Cold War, the authors are attentive to the entwined histories of imperialism, racial-settler capitalism, and militarism constitutive of the Cold War. Focusing on reformation as a generative analytic in which to engage the Cold War’s lives in Asia, Oceania, and the United States, Baik and Cheng situate the special issue’s contributions in relation to Asian American studies, Pacific Islander studies, and critical Asian studies.