Global borderlands : fantasy, violence, and empire in Subic Bay, Philippines /

Reyes, Victoria

Global borderlands : fantasy, violence, and empire in Subic Bay, Philippines / Victoria Reyes. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2019. - 1 online resource (xviii, 288 pages) : illustrations - Culture and economic life .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Money and authority -- Rape and murder -- Sex and romance -- Born in the shadows of bases -- Labor and imagined identities -- Buying inequality.

Taking a close look at Subic Bay--former U.S. military base, now a Freeport Zone-- Victoria Reyes argues that its defining feature is its ability to elicit multiple meanings: for some, it is a symbol of imperialism and inequality, while for others, it projects utopian visions of wealth and status.



9781503609426

2019017646


Globalization--Social aspects--Philippines--Subic Bay Region.
Free ports and zones--Social aspects--Philippines--Subic Bay Region.


Electronic Books.

HN720 / .G563 2019