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DESCRIPTION:Marshall Islanders explain that US nuclear blasting is woven in
 to their polity “kone jubar”—like an ironwood tree roots in the soil\; like
  a child belongs to the lands of their mother’s lineage. This talk is about
  bodies (biological\, territorial\, political) and persons (natural and leg
 al)\, and about radionuclides that expose\, permeate\, entangle\, and trans
 form them.\n\nBetween 1946 and 1958\, the United States detonated 67 of its
  most powerful nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands\, which it governed 
 as part of a United Nations “strategic trusteeship.” During decolonization 
 negotiations\, the residues of US nuclear colonialism shaped the birth of t
 he Marshallese state. In international law\, “residual sovereignty” describ
 es sovereign rights that will only vest fully following the removal of an e
 ncumbrance. In the late 1970s\, US Defense Department planned to retain ext
 ensive military rights in the Marshall Islands that would limit Marshallese
  state sovereignty indefinitely.\n\nMarshallese sovereignty also became res
 idual in a second\, material sense\, for it was shaped by the enduring dama
 ge and residues of US blasting. As a condition of the formation of a Marsha
 llese state “in free association” with the United States\, US negotiators r
 equired Islanders not only to cede military and security rights\, but also 
 to settle all legal claims relating to the nuclear legacy.\n\nThis talk wil
 l explore the significance of this history for broader post-World War II en
 tanglements between the racialized international legal politics of decoloni
 zation\, on the one hand\, and the material and epistemic politics of techn
 ology and technogenic pollution\, on the other.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nMar
 y X. Mitchell is a lawyer and historian of science and technology. Her fort
 hcoming book\, Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law\, Nuclear Weapons\
 , and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania (University of Chicago P
 ress)\, uses legal wrangling over US nuclear blasting and contamination in 
 the Marshall Islands to explore the shifting shape of sovereignty following
  World War II. Mitchell is an assistant professor in the Federated Departme
 nt of History at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers-Newark.
  \n\nHost\n\nThe talk is hosted by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Confli
 ct Studies\, part of the Einaudi Center for International Studies.
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LOCATION:Uris Hall\, G08
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SUMMARY:Residual Sovereignty: Bodies\, Radionuclides\, and the Birth of the
  Marshallese State
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URL:https://events.cornell.edu/event/residual-sovereignty-bodies-radionucli
 des-the-birth-of-the-marshallese-state
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