Almost Futures

Sovereignty and Refuge at World’s End

Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

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University of California Press
24 September 2024

Refugees & political asylum; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Black & Asian studies

Series: Critical Refugee Studies

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Almost Futures looks to the people who pay the heaviest price for progress throughout war and capitalist globalization—particularly Vietnamese citizens and refugees—for glimpses of ways to exist at the end of our future's promise. In order to learn from the lives destroyed (and lived) amid our inheritance of modern humanism and its uses of time, Almost Futures asks us to recognize new spectrums of feeling: the poetic, in the grief of protesters dispossessed by land speculation; the allegorical, in assembly line workers' laughter and sorrow; the iterant and intimate, in the visual witnessing of revolutionary and state killing; the haunting, in refugee writing on the death of their nation; and the irreconcilable, in refugees' inhabitation of history.

By: Thu-huong Nguyen-vo
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 6
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780520394452
ISBN 10: 0520394453
Series: Critical Refugee Studies
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nguyễn-võ Thu-hương is Professor of Asian American Studies and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.