Self-Representation in the Arms of Defeat: Fatal Nostalgia and Surviving Comrades in French New Caledonia, 1871-1880

Enduring Uncertainty

“…In this sense, contemporary deportees, like displaced populations under the Soviet regime, may feel they are being forced to leave their home. On the other hand, deportability is not as rooted in one's actions as it first may seem, but may serve other political intentions, as discussed by Bullard (1997), Cohen (2006), Gabriel (1987), Maira (2007) and Moloney (2006), among others. Anderson, Gibney and Paoletti (2011) make the case that deportation is constitutive of deservedness of membership (see also Anderson 2013;Gibney 2013).…”

“…Bullard 1997;Comins-Richmond 2002;Pohl 2002). It is argued here, however, that the words connote different meanings, and it is indeed this difference that allows deportees to contest established concepts of justice and citizenship by resisting the notion that they do not belong to the country from which they have been removed.…”

Some Reflections on Editing with Contrarian Sensibilities

“…It was a nice surprise to find that there were simply too many of these for me to provide an exhaustive list here. That said, three worthy examples include Bullard , Ortner , and Taminian . I should acknowledge here that in pursuing work that combined cultural anthropological and historical elements, it could be said that I was pursuing the new and that there were thus some tensions between my different editorial goals. While I think this a valid observation, I do not find it to be a particularly damning one.…”

“…It was a nice surprise to find that there were simply too many of these for me to provide an exhaustive list here. That said, three worthy examples include Bullard , Ortner , and Taminian .…”