Introduction: Rethinking Imperialism Today

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Rethinking Imperialism Today 1
5. PART 1: TECHNOLOGIES OF IMPERIALISM
6. Culture, US Imperialism, and Globalization 37
7. Between the Homeland and Abu Ghraib: Dwelling in Bush’s Biopolitical Settlement 60
8. Planet America: The Revolution in Military Affairs as Fantasy and Fetish 88
9. Hegemony and Rights: On the Liberal Justification for Empire 105
10. PART 2: ENGENDERING IMPERIALISM
11. Updating the Gendered Empire: Where Are the Women of Occupied Afghanistan and Iraq? 133
12. Techno-Dominance and Torturegate: The Making of US Imperialism 162
13. PART 3: IMAGINING OTHERS
14. Left Behind and the Politics of Prophecy Talk 191
15. Putting an Old Africa on Our Map: British Imperial Legacies and Contemporary US Culture 221
16. New Modes of Anti-imperialism 248
17. Coda: Information Mastery and the Culture of Annihilation 275
18. Bibliography 285
19. Contributors 301
20. Index 303