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The Long Mile Of Empire: Power, Legitimation And The Uk Bases In Cyprus, Costas M. Constantinou, Oilver Richmond
The Long Mile Of Empire: Power, Legitimation And The Uk Bases In Cyprus, Costas M. Constantinou, Oilver Richmond
Costas M. Constantinou
This article examines the continuities and discontinuities of imperial rule in
Cyprus. It specifically investigates how the UK military base regime in the island has been
negotiated in its local and regional contexts, including the recent accession of Cyprus into
the European Union (EU) from whose territory the bases have been excluded. The study
outlines the legal and political discourses and aesthetic practices surrounding the bases,
and attempts to uncover their symbolic contradictions, paradoxes and implications. To this
extent it underscores the tensions faced by competing discourses and practices of postcolonial
emancipation, of peacekeeping and peacebuilding, as well as of …