Two refugees set themselves on fire on Nauru
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “Nauru Refugee Who Set Herself Alight Arrives in Brisbane for Treatment,” ABC.net, May 2, 2016, http://www.abc.net.au/?news/?2016-05-03/?nauru-detention-centre-burns-victim-arrives-brisbane-treatment/?7378242.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “Nauru Refugee Who Set Himself on Fire Dies in Brisbane Hospital,” ABC.net, May 1, 2016, http://www.abc.net.au/?news/?2016-04-29/?nauru-refugee-who-set-himself-on-firedies/?7371112.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: “We cannot be misty-eyed about this…”
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, “Turnbull Warns against Being ‘Misty-Eyed’ on Offshore Detention,” ABC.net, April 26, 2016, http://mobile.abc.net.au/?news/?2016-04-28/?turnbull-warns-against-being-misty-eyed-on-detention/?7367004.
Jets, Drones, and Boats
1.5 million people were internally displaced from drought in Syria
Colin P. Kelleya, Shahrzad Mohtadib, Mark A. Canec, Richard Seagerc, and Yochanan Kushnir, “Climate Change in the Fertile Crescent and Implications of the Recent Syrian Drought,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (2015), 3241–46.
John Kerry: drought was a factor in tensions in Syria
US Department of State, “Remarks at the Milan Expo 2015,” press release, October 17, 2015, accessed from https://groups.google.com/?forum/?#!topic/?wanabidii/?Xp6wYBlQIOg.
Eyal Weizman: “astounding coincidence”
Naomi Klein, “Let Them Drown,” London Review of Books 38, no. 11 (June 2, 2016), https://www.lrb.co.uk/?v38/?n11/?naomiklein/?let-them-drown.
Eyal Weizman and Fazal Sheikh, The Conflict Shoreline: Colonialism as Climate Change in the Negev Desert (G?ttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2015), 99.
Center for Naval Analyses: “The Middle East has always been associated with two natural resources…”
CNA Corporation, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change (Arlington, VA: Center for Naval Analyses, 2007), accessed from https://www.scribd.com/?document/?4097167/?National-Security-the-Threat-of-Climate-Change.
Trump: “bad hombres”
Vivian Salama, “Trump to Mexico: Take care of ‘bad hombres’ or US might,” Associated Press, February 2, 2017, https://apnews.com/?0b3f5db59b2e4aa78cdbbf008f27fb49.
Kellie Leitch: “Canadian values”
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, “Conservative Canadian Politician Kelly Leitch Proposing That Immigrants Be Screened for ‘Canadian Values,’?” CBC.ca, March 4, 2017, http://www.cbc.ca/?news/?conservative-leadership-candidate-kellie-leitch-explains-her-stance-on-canadian-values-1.4010197.
A Crisis of Imagination
Thomas Paine: “We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
Thomas Paine, Common Sense: Addressed to the Inhabitants of America (London: H.D. Symonds, 1792), 32.
PART IV – HOW THINGS COULD GET BETTER
Eduardo Galeano: “She’s on the horizon…”
Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri, Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), 84.
CHAPTER 10
When the Shock Doctrine Backfires
Resistance, Memory, and the Limits to No
Mekasi Camp Horinek: “I want to say thank you…”
Alleen Brown, “Donald Trump Rewards Fossil Fuel Industry by Signing Climate Denial Executive Order,” TheIntercept.com, March 28, 2017, https://theintercept.com/?2017/?03/?28/?donaldtrump-rewards-fossil-fuel-industry-by-signing-climate-denial-executive-order/; and author’s personal communication with Alleen Brown, n.d.
When Argentina Said No
Time magazine: Argentina’s economy a “miracle”
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2007), 209.
Fernando de la Rúa “groups that are enemies of order…”
Naomi Klein, “Out of the Ordinary,” Guardian, January 25, 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/?world/?2003/?jan/?25/?argentina.weekend7.
Argentina: thirty-day state of siege
Clifford Krauss, “Reeling from Riots, Argentina Declares a State of Siege,” New York Times, December 20, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/?2001/?12/?20/?world/?reeling-from-riots-argentina-declares-a-state-of-siege.html.
Argentina protests: tens of thousands of people, “?Que se vayan todos!”
Carlos Vilas, “Neoliberal Meltdown and Social Protest: Argentina 2001–2002,” Critical Sociology 32, no. 1 (2006): 163–86.
British Broadcasting Corporation, “Crisis Grips Argentina,” BBC website, December 20, 2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/?2/?hi/?americas/?1721201.stm.
Argentina: more than twenty demonstrators killed
Guido Galafassi, “Argentina on Fire: People’s Rebellion Facing the Deep Crisis of the Neoliberal Market Economy,” Democracy & Nature 8, no. 2 (2002): 331–35.
Argentina: 250 “asambleas barriales”
Naomi Klein, “Out of the Ordinary (Part Two),” Guardian, January 25, 2003, https://www.theguardian.com/?world/?2003/?jan/?25/?argentina.weekend72.
When Spain Said No
March 11, 2004: bombing death toll
Elaine Sciolino, “Bombings in Madrid: The Attack; 10 Bombs Shatter Trains in Madrid, Killing 192,” New York Times, March 12, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/?2004/?03/?12/?world/?bombings-in-madrid-the-attack-10-bombs-shatter-trains-in-madrid-killing-192.html?_r=0.
José María Aznar: “No negotiation is possible…”
Francie Grace, “Spain Reels from Deadly Bombings,” CBSNews.com, March 11, 2004, http://www.cbsnews.com/?news/?spain-reels-from-deadly-bombings/.
José Antonio Martines Soler: “We are still hearing the echoes of Franco…”
Elaine Sciolino, “The World: Franco’s Still Dead; In Spain’s Vote, a Shock from Democracy (and the Past),” New York Times, March 21, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/?2004/?03/?21/?weekinreview/?world-franco-s-still-dead-spain-s-vote-shock-democracy-past.html?_r=0.
9/11 and the Perils of Official Forgetting
Great Depression: as many as two million Mexican and Mexican-Americans expelled
Francisco E. Balderrama and Raymond Rodriguez, Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006), 149–51.
Pearl Harbor: approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans incarcerated, two thirds born in the US
National Archives, “Japanese Relocation during World War II,” National Archives website, accessed April 18, 2017, https://www.archives.gov/?education/?lessons/?japanese-relocation.
Canada: almost the entire Japanese-Canadian citizenry interned
James H. Marsh, “Japanese Internment: Banished and Beyond Tears,” Canadian Encyclopedia, last edited November 28, 2016, http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/?en/?article/?japanese-internment-banished-and-beyond-tears-feature/.
Shock Resistance in the USA
Trump: “ghettos”
Sean Sullivan, “Trump Talks of ‘Ghettos’ in Describing Urban African American Areas,” Washington Post, October 27, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/?news/?post-politics/?wp/?2016/?10/?27/?trump-talks-of-ghettos-in-describing-urban-african-american-areas/??utm_term=.fb85e0b410e9.