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 |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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