Archipelagic rhetoric: remapping the Marianas and challenging militarization from "A Stirring Place"

• Published in: Communication and critical/cultural studies Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 4 - 25
• Main Author: Na'puti, Tiara R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.01.2019
• Subjects: archipelagic rhetoric; colonialism; Indigenous; place; remapping

Engaging critical rhetorical fieldwork in the Mariana Islands archipelago, this article destabilizes colonial naming projects and US federal control that dispossess island places from Indigenous peoples. On Euro-American and military maps, archipelagoes are depicted as distant, tiny, empty, or merel...