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Book Review: Sex tourism: marginal people and liminalities

487 powers. While one reason for the title may be that the book is part of a series called New Americanists, Wilson himself gives two other conflicting explanations for the title. At one point he claims that the ‘American Pacific’ refers to those areas of the Pacific, like Micronesia, Hawaii and American Samoa, which most recently were directly dominated by the colonial power of the United States (p. 105). In another part of the book he claims that the term stands for ‘the entire Pacific as a region that, since the end of World War II when supremacy passed to the United States, has been dominated by this military superpower and its neoliberal ideology of installing democracy and free-market regimes’ (p. 68, emphasis original). This latter definition of the ‘American Pacific is the one that Wilson uses for most of his analysis, and the book focuses primarily on Hawaii, an American state within the Pacific, with little attention to the experiences of the rest of Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. It would be interesting to extend Wilson’s analysis to comparison between how people in other parts of the Pacific have asserted the legitimacy of their views of homeland and how the Native Hawaiians have done it. Despite these criticism the book is a fascinating read, and it does what Wilson sets out to do: demonstrate how the Pacific is being reimagined from the perspective of local people. The book contains valuable insights not only into the Pacific experience but also into how researchers can critically evaluate the way all regions have been, and continue to be, constructed by the dynamic interplay of local and global imaginings.