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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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.
Table of Contents:
  • Japan in the 1950s : symbolic victims
  • Okinawa, 1945-1952 : allegories of becoming
  • Okinawa, 1952-1958 : solidarity under the cover of darkness
  • Okinawa, 1958-1972 : the subaltern speaks
  • Okinawa, 1972-1995 : life that matters.

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