About the Author
The college where Sisavath teaches
What is Cal State Fullerton?
The name of the office Eisenhower created to get around the Geneva Agreements
What is the Programs Evaluations Office (PEO)?
The location where Sisavath initially went to learn about the secret war
What is the National Archives?
The years in which the US dropped over 2 million bombs in Laos
What is from 1964-1973?
The name of the company who started making jewelry from the military waste?
What is ARTICLE22?
The university Sisavath received her M.A. and is also where the fight for Ethnic Studies began
What is San Francisco State University?
Prior to the declassification of files, the history of the secret war depended on these 2 groups
What is first-person accounts and survivors willing to tell their stories?
Jaques Derrida argues that archives house and reflect these 2 things
What is official documents and institutional authority?
The name of the province where the population went from 150,000 to 9,000?
What is the Plain of Jars in Xieng Khouang Province?
The name of the bracelets created from US warheads?
What is PEACEBOMB?
The subject Sisavath teaches
What is Asian American Studies?
The purpose of the Geneva Agreements and the countries to which it applied
What is ended French rule and declared neutrality for Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam?
The way Sisavath extends Derrida's critique
What is by analyzing the withdrawal of records where access is restricted and researchers are given fragments?
The name of the book Sisavath turns to as a visual record
What is Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos
Name 3 ways military waste has been recycled in Laos
What is by being repurposed as fixtures, parts for rice milling machines, herb planters, makeshift museums, melted down to spoons and bracelets?
Name 2 of Sisavath's mentioned research interests
What is US militarism, science, technology and warfare, environmental pollution, and Southeast Asian and Asian American histories?
List at least 3 reasons the war in Laos is known as the "Secret War"
What is few soldiers fought in Laos, the US provided the Royal Lao government with weapons and aircraft, there were no American ground troops, planes took off from other countries, involvement was officially denied, and files were classified, few US journalists in Laos, many were focused on the Vietnam War?
The term Sisavath uses to reflect her assembled archive of waste, interview transcripts, documentary, photojournalism, etc.
What is "unruly archive"?
The way the US Senate rationalized the war and refugees from Laos
What is by saying the air war was modest and low-profile conflict and that the refugees were due to internal displacement by communism?
Sisavath notes this is the way that Laotians enact the concept of subsistence
What is by drawing on war debris as a resource, repurposing waste and transforming it into objects of pleasure or need?
This is one of the other publications listed by Sisavath
What is "The Afterlives of U.S. Wars in Southeast Asia" or "Cluster Bombs and War Metals"?
The list of US departments and agencies involved in the secret war
What is the US Department of State, US Department of Defense, US Air Force, US Agency for International Development, and the Central Intelligence Agency?
By looking towards military waste, Sisavath highlights the intersection between these 2 frameworks/systems
What is militarism and capitalism?
Sisavath notes that the visual and physical presence of military waste reveals this for Laotians
What is that the bombing campaign was not a secret for Laotians who continue to live with the aftermath?
The way Sisavath applies "benevolent capitalism" in her critique of ARTICLE22
What is framing the bracelets as ethical jewelry commodifies violence and erases the danger that goes into mining the material for production?