Alegal : biopolitics and the unintelligibility of Okinawan life

Alegal : biopolitics and the unintelligibility of Okinawan life /

"Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in re...

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Online Access: Access full-text online via JSTOR
Other authors / contributors: Shimabuku, Annmaria M. (Editor)
Imprint: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Miscegenation > Japan > Okinawa-shi > History > 20th century.
Military bases, American > Social aspects > Japan > Okinawa-ken.
Soldiers > Sexual behavior > United States > History > 20th century.
Biopolitics > Japan > Okinawa-shi.
Okinawa-shi (Japan) > History > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Summary:"Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780823282685
0823282686
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 31, 2018).

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