Why and how did the U.S. Navy’s War Crimes Tribunals Program, the first court of its kind to prosecute Class B war criminals in the military colony of Guam, transform the Nany脜聧 or the “Japanese Pacific” into an American saltwater state? By drawing from Giorgio Agamben’s political philosophy, Professor Camacho will discuss how the intertwined objectives of racialized punishment and territorial possession鈥� two topics that seldom receive treatment in U.S. legal studies of the Pacific and of Agamben’s theories more generally鈥攁nimated the tribunal’s hegemony in Guam and the Pacific during World War II. Keith L. Camacho is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the senior editor of Amerasia Journal, the author of Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands (2011), and the co-editor of Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (2010).
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