Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life /

Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life /

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"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: Shimabuku, Annmaria M. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Soldiers > Sexual behavior.
Miscegenation.
Military bases, American > Social aspects.
Biopolitics.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Biopolitique > Japon > Okinawa.
Bases militaires americaines > Aspect social > Japon > Okinawa (Ken)
Metissage > Japon > Okinawa > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Biopolitics > Japan > Okinawa-shi.
Soldiers > Sexual behavior > United States > History > 20th century.
Military bases, American > Social aspects > Japan > Okinawa-ken.
Miscegenation > Japan > Okinawa-shi > History > 20th century.
United States.
Japan > Okinawa-shi.
Japan > Okinawa-ken.
Okinawa-shi (Japan) > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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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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