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EMPIRE, IMAGINATIVE GEOGRAPHY, AND THE MAY 4TH MOVEMENT
Author(s) -
Bills Scott L.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0130.1996.tb00265.x
Subject(s) - empire , movement (music) , context (archaeology) , work (physics) , sociology , history , political science , aesthetics , law , archaeology , art , engineering , mechanical engineering
Drawing upon the work of Edward W. Said and Michel Foucault, as well as my earlier research on the Kent Stale shootings of May 4, 1970, this article examines the means by which the “imaginative geography” of empire contributed to the marginalization of antiwar dissidents. The article also analyzes the durability of the “May 4th Movement”—student activists seeking remembrance and commemoration of May 4 events in the proper historical context. In the process, protecting the site of the shootings became an essential part of the strategy and language of local activism.