Guam

Latitude: 
13.43
Longitude: 
144.75
GeoNames ID: 
4 043 542
Geofield: 
POINT (144.75311 13.43103)

Mapping

Mapping

The cartography of nuclear bombings and nuclear waste can be understood and visualized in different ways depending on who is drawing the map. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization” by literary scholar Hsuan L. Hsu.

Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization

This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.

Hsuan Hsu

About the author

Hsu, Hsuan L.
Hsu, Hsuan L.

University of California, Davis, USA

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is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Literature and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, forthcoming). He has published articles on cultures of environmental risk in Jump Cut, Discourse, Daedalus, and New Literary History and co-edited a special issue of Discourse on the topic of “Environment, Race, and Representation.”

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Exhibition Overview
Introduction
Bases
Nuclear colonialism
Aftermaths
Mapping
Monuments
Photography
Literature
Monster movies
Reclamations
Documentary film

Photography

Photography

Despite being subject to censorship and restrictions, photographs of US military bases can reveal patterns of unsustainability. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” written and curated by literary scholar Hsu Hsuan.

Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization

This virtual exhibition curated by literary scholar Hsuan Hsu examines the environmental impact of US military activities worldwide and how activists have used art and other forms of representational media to convey the harmful effects of militarization on the local population and landscape.

Hsuan Hsu

About the author

Hsu, Hsuan L.
Hsu, Hsuan L.

University of California, Davis, USA

Show more

is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis and the author of Literature and the Production of Space in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge) and Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization (NYU, forthcoming). He has published articles on cultures of environmental risk in Jump Cut, Discourse, Daedalus, and New Literary History and co-edited a special issue of Discourse on the topic of “Environment, Race, and Representation.”

Browse the exhibition

Exhibition Overview
Introduction
Bases
Nuclear colonialism
Aftermaths
Mapping
Monuments
Photography
Literature
Monster movies
Reclamations
Documentary film
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