2024年10月英國宣布放棄查哥斯群島主權，並移交給模里西斯，但是島上的美軍基地依然照常運作。查哥斯群島怎麼了？這裡的軍事基地又是如何影響美軍在中東戰事的佈局呢？
關鍵字：查哥斯群島、迪亞哥加西亞島、驅逐查哥斯人、美軍、阿富汗
In October 2024, the United Kingdom announced its relinquishment of sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, transferring it to Mauritius. However, the U.S. military base on the islands continues to operate as usual. What has happened to the Chagos Archipelago? How does the military base here influence the U.S. military's strategic positioning in the Middle East?
#Chagos Archipelago #Diego Garcia #Displacement of the Chagossians #U.S. military #Afghanistan
About the Chagossian artist Audrey Albert
Audrey Albert is currently based in Manchester after studying photography at the Manchester Metropolitan University between 2015 – 2018. Her main creative mediums are digital and analog photography. Audrey’s main body of work Matter Out of Place sheds a light on an unfair and shameful page of Mauritian and British history in which the entire population of The Chagos Archipelago was forcefully displaced from their homeland due to political agendas between 1968 – 1973.
☯ About the hosts ☯Lou Mo is a Chinese-Canadian artist and curator whose research focuses primarily on modern and contemporary exchanges between Asia and Africa, as well as the works of Third World artists. She is also interested in the dynamics of center and periphery, diaspora, identity, and the perceptual differences emerging from post-colonial history.Musquiqui Chihying is a Taiwanese visual artist. Specialising in the use of multimedia such as film and sound, he investigates the human condition and environmental system in the age of global capitalisation and engages in the inquiry of and research on issues of subjectivity in contemporary social culture in the Global South.☯ 關於主持人 ☯莫奴是加拿大籍華裔藝術家和策展人，他的研究主要側重在現當代的亞非交流與第三世界藝術家的創作，也對中心與邊緣、後殖民的歷史中產生的離散、身份認同與感知差異剛興趣。致穎是臺灣視覺藝術工作者，他擅長運用聲音及影像等媒材進行創作，以探討全球資本化時代人類生存語境與環境體系之關聯，並多方關注全球南方當代社會之主體性研究與探查。