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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Fordham University Press
2019, 2019
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780823282661 |