Wed 10.28.09| Bases and Monuments

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Catherine Lutz

Cecile Pineda

 

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What are the social and environmental costs of building and maintaining military bases and huge monuments? Catherine Lutz is editor of The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle Against U.S. Military Posts. And Cecile Pineda's novel Frieze considers the forced labor that went into the ninth-century construction of the Javanese monument Borobudur.

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