维持帝国:卡拉玛环礁的废墟保护

IF 2.9 1区 社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
G. du Plessis, C. Grimm, Kyle Kajihiro, Kenneth Gofigan Kuper
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卡拉玛环礁(Kalama Atoll)(美国命名为约翰斯顿)在檀香山西南825英里处的海面上出现,通过洋流和风与夏威夷群岛相连。在165年的时间里,为了推进美国帝国的计划,卡拉马既是保护边界,也是岛上的实验室,用于大量的核武器、生物武器和化学武器。本文考察了美国帝国在卡拉马的统治,这是一块未合并的美国领土,以及卡拉马的军事破坏如何产生了新的军事性质,需要观察和保护。在介绍“通过破坏来保护”的标题时,我们强调了有毒破坏和保护工作是如何结合在一起的,作为对环礁的持续地缘政治主张,以及环礁上的帝国结构是如何通过技术科学和多物种组合而编织起来的。从本质上讲,通过破坏来保护的不是野生动物、栖息地或自然,而是帝国本身。卡拉玛是一个后世界末日的半机器人,由漂白的珊瑚骨架、放射性碎片、含二恶英的渗滤液和疯狂的蚂蚁组成;一个由风化的混凝土和生锈的金属组成的嘈杂的生态环境,栖息着海鸟,并逐渐融入大海。但它也是一个环礁,仍然与大洋洲的岛屿和人民联系在一起,它既不失落,也不小,也不孤立,也不被破坏。因此,我们以对这个环礁的修复进行推测来结束文章,这个环礁的帝国构造不仅占据了它的空间,而且还占据了它的未来。
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Sustaining empire: Conservation by ruination at Kalama Atoll
Joined to the Hawaiian Islands by ocean currents and winds, Kalama Atoll (named Johnston by the United States) emerges from the sea 825 miles southwest of Honolulu. Over a period of 165 years, in furtherance of the U.S. imperial project, Kalama has been rendered both conservation frontier and island laboratory for an extraordinary amount of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. This article examines U.S. imperial governance at Kalama, an unincorporated U.S. territory, and how military ruination of Kalama has produced new military natures that call for observation and protection. Introducing a rubric of “conservation by ruination,” we highlight how a coalescing of toxic destruction and conservation efforts functions as a continuous geopolitical claim to the atoll, and how imperial formations at the atoll are weaved through technoscientific and multispecies assemblages. In essence, what is conserved in conservation by ruination is not wildlife, habitats, or nature, but empire itself. Kalama is a post-apocalyptic cyborg assemblage of bleached coral skeletons and radioactive debris, dioxin-laden leachate and crazy ants; a cacophonous ecology of weathered concrete and rusted metal, inhabited by seabirds and steadily dissolving into the sea. But it is also an atoll that remains connected to the islands and peoples of Oceania, and which is neither lost, small, isolated, or ruined. We therefore end the article by speculating on restoration of this atoll whose imperial formations capture not only its spaces, but also its futures.
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