Residents of remote base areas feel invisible relative to mainland Americans

Evidence

Offering a comparison to a different island in the United States, Janice asked how Manhattanites might feel about having live explosives tested so close to their home. “Maybe they can come back after twenty-five years, and how do they feel when there’s some unexploded ordnance there?” she said. “Tell me. Tell me after twenty-five years and maybe we can sit down and maybe we can share the same lens. … “But at this point, they can’t see what I’m seeing or even have an inch, an inkling of how it feels to live in this remote area, being a United States citizen and part of the American family, and you don’t really matter,” Janice said. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 430

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth verifying: has live-fire testing actually left unexploded ordnance on Vieques or similar territory that later endangered residents?
• SHARE: Janice’s Manhattanites-vs-Vieques unexploded ordnance question is a crisp hypothetical for someone interested in how risk exposure maps onto political voice.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 430
• XREF: connects to: US military bases abroad can be isolated enclaves of affluence contrasting with local poverty — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 320; Citizenship’s static territorial model excludes those who move — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 142; Attempts to reach sustaining people heighten felt isolation — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 42 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: US military bases abroad can be isolated enclaves of affluence contrasting with local poverty — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 320; Citizenship’s static territorial model excludes those who move — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 142; Attempts to reach sustaining people heighten felt isolation — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!: A Manifesto of the…, 42 (+1 more)