Writing about Diego Garcia
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"'Inexcusably Inhuman Wrongs': US, UK Must Deliver Long Overdue Justice at Diego Garcia," Just Security.
"The U.S. Base at Diego Garcia Holds a Dirty Secret," Inkstick.
"Diego Garcia: Troubled Past, Uncertain Futures," The Diplomat.
"Unpacking the Invisible Military Backpack: 56 Suggestions for Teaching about War," Radical Teacher 117.
Dent the Future Conference Talk about the Exiled Chagossians of Diego Garcia.
“Everyone Has the Right to Live on Their Island. Why Not Us?” Foreign Policy in Focus.
"Atoning for Washington’s 'Mass Kidnapping' in the Indian Ocean." Nation.
“The Truth About Diego Garcia: And 50 Years of Fiction About an American Military Base,” TomDispatch.com.
"Forty Years of Heartbreak: Let the People of Diego Garcia Return to their Homeland," Huffington Post.
"Island of Injustice," Washington Post op-ed.
"Homesick for Camp Justice," Mother Jones.
"Compensating a People for the Loss of Their Homeland: Diego Garcia, the Chagossians, and the Human Rights Standards Damages Model," 1st author, with Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 11, no. 1 (2012): 152-185. [N.B. Issue published 2013.]
"WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Use of Environmentalism by US and UK as Pretext to Keep Natives From Returning to Diego Garcia," Focal Points Blog.
"The Other Guantanamo," Foreign Policy in Focus.
What If You Can’t Protest a Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Military Base on Diego Garcia. South Atlantic Quarterly. Special issue on social movements around foreign military bases. Michael Hardt, ed. South Atlantic Quarterly 111, no. 4 (2012): 847-56.
"'Give Us Back Diego': Unity and Division over a Base in the Indian Ocean," chapter with Laura Jeffery in The Bases of Empire, Edited by Catherine Lutz, 181-217. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
"From the Birth of the Ilois to the “Footprint of Freedom”: A History of Chagos and the Chagossians," chapter in Eviction from the Chagos Islands: Displacement and Struggle for Identity Against Two World Powers. Edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers and Marry Kooy. Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2011. [Link to Brill's web page for the book.]
"Chagossians Twice Forgotten: Exile in the Seychelles," chapter in Evers and Kooy.
"Sorrow, Sadness, and Impoverishment: The Lives of Chagossians in Mauritius," chapter with Laura Jeffery, in Evers and Kooy.
"Dying of Sorrow: Expulsion and Empire on Diego Garcia," chapter in The War Machine and Global Health. Edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge, 179-206. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2010.
"Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia," Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics, and Society 10, no. 4 (2008):327-343.
"Decolonizing Britain in the 21st Century? Chagos Islanders Challenge the Crown, House of Lords, 30 June-3 July 2008," Anthropology Today 24, no. 4 (2008):26-28.
"'We All Must Have the Same Treatment': Calculating the Damages of Human Rights Abuses for the People of Diego Garcia," chapter with Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski in Waging War, Making Peace—Reparations and Human Rights. Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston and Susan Slyomovics, 132-151. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008.
"The Impoverishment of Forced Displacement: Models for Documenting Human Rights Abuses and the People of Diego Garcia," Human Rights Brief 13, no. 2 (2006): 21-24
"War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean: The U.S. Military Base at Diego Garcia," International Migration 42, no. 3 (2004):111-143.
"The Other Migrants: Cause and Prevention in Involuntary Displacement and the Question of 'Environmental Refugees,'" in International Migration and the Millennium Development Goals: Selected Papers of the UNFPA Expert Group Meeting, Marrakech, 11-12 May 2005. pp. 141-151.
Gefährliche Stützpunkte: Diego Garcia, die NATO und der Bedarf an Alternativen [Dangerous Bases: Diego Garcia, NATO, and the Need for Alternatives]. Perspektiven für eine sichere Welt: Alternativen zur NATO, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Reihe Manuskripte, 89. Erhard Crome, ed. Pp. 73-84. Karl Dietz Verlag: Berlin, 2010.
"The U.S. Base at Diego Garcia Holds a Dirty Secret," Inkstick.
"Diego Garcia: Troubled Past, Uncertain Futures," The Diplomat.
"Unpacking the Invisible Military Backpack: 56 Suggestions for Teaching about War," Radical Teacher 117.
Dent the Future Conference Talk about the Exiled Chagossians of Diego Garcia.
“Everyone Has the Right to Live on Their Island. Why Not Us?” Foreign Policy in Focus.
"Atoning for Washington’s 'Mass Kidnapping' in the Indian Ocean." Nation.
“The Truth About Diego Garcia: And 50 Years of Fiction About an American Military Base,” TomDispatch.com.
"Forty Years of Heartbreak: Let the People of Diego Garcia Return to their Homeland," Huffington Post.
"Island of Injustice," Washington Post op-ed.
"Homesick for Camp Justice," Mother Jones.
"Compensating a People for the Loss of Their Homeland: Diego Garcia, the Chagossians, and the Human Rights Standards Damages Model," 1st author, with Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski. Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights 11, no. 1 (2012): 152-185. [N.B. Issue published 2013.]
"WikiLeaks Cables Reveal Use of Environmentalism by US and UK as Pretext to Keep Natives From Returning to Diego Garcia," Focal Points Blog.
"The Other Guantanamo," Foreign Policy in Focus.
What If You Can’t Protest a Base? The Chagossian Exile, the Struggle for Democracy, and the Military Base on Diego Garcia. South Atlantic Quarterly. Special issue on social movements around foreign military bases. Michael Hardt, ed. South Atlantic Quarterly 111, no. 4 (2012): 847-56.
"'Give Us Back Diego': Unity and Division over a Base in the Indian Ocean," chapter with Laura Jeffery in The Bases of Empire, Edited by Catherine Lutz, 181-217. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
"From the Birth of the Ilois to the “Footprint of Freedom”: A History of Chagos and the Chagossians," chapter in Eviction from the Chagos Islands: Displacement and Struggle for Identity Against Two World Powers. Edited by Sandra J.T.M. Evers and Marry Kooy. Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2011. [Link to Brill's web page for the book.]
"Chagossians Twice Forgotten: Exile in the Seychelles," chapter in Evers and Kooy.
"Sorrow, Sadness, and Impoverishment: The Lives of Chagossians in Mauritius," chapter with Laura Jeffery, in Evers and Kooy.
"Dying of Sorrow: Expulsion and Empire on Diego Garcia," chapter in The War Machine and Global Health. Edited by Merrill Singer and G. Derrick Hodge, 179-206. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2010.
"Taking on Empires: Reparations, the Right of Return, and the People of Diego Garcia," Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics, and Society 10, no. 4 (2008):327-343.
"Decolonizing Britain in the 21st Century? Chagos Islanders Challenge the Crown, House of Lords, 30 June-3 July 2008," Anthropology Today 24, no. 4 (2008):26-28.
"'We All Must Have the Same Treatment': Calculating the Damages of Human Rights Abuses for the People of Diego Garcia," chapter with Philip Harvey and S. Wojciech Sokolowski in Waging War, Making Peace—Reparations and Human Rights. Edited by Barbara Rose Johnston and Susan Slyomovics, 132-151. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2008.
"The Impoverishment of Forced Displacement: Models for Documenting Human Rights Abuses and the People of Diego Garcia," Human Rights Brief 13, no. 2 (2006): 21-24
"War and Forced Migration in the Indian Ocean: The U.S. Military Base at Diego Garcia," International Migration 42, no. 3 (2004):111-143.
"The Other Migrants: Cause and Prevention in Involuntary Displacement and the Question of 'Environmental Refugees,'" in International Migration and the Millennium Development Goals: Selected Papers of the UNFPA Expert Group Meeting, Marrakech, 11-12 May 2005. pp. 141-151.
Gefährliche Stützpunkte: Diego Garcia, die NATO und der Bedarf an Alternativen [Dangerous Bases: Diego Garcia, NATO, and the Need for Alternatives]. Perspektiven für eine sichere Welt: Alternativen zur NATO, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Reihe Manuskripte, 89. Erhard Crome, ed. Pp. 73-84. Karl Dietz Verlag: Berlin, 2010.