“First World militarization of the region is more contested…

“First World militarization of the region is more contested since the Pacific evolved from a strange place with a few watering ports and frontier outposts in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries into a strategic area for superpower nuclear politics, ocean and land mining, and First World dumping in the twentieth century.”

“The geographic boundaries I have been discussing accompany…

“The geographic boundaries I have been discussing accompany the social, ethnic, and cultural ones in expected ways. Yet very often the sense in which someone feels himself to be not-foreign is based on a very unrigorous idea of what is ‘out there’, beyond one’s own territory. All kinds of suppositions, associations, fictions appear to crowd the unfamiliar and strange space outside one’s place…”