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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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Shimabuku, Annmaria M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
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.
Métissage > Japon > Okinawa > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Bases militaires américaines > Aspect social > Japon > Okinawa (Ken)
Biopolitique > Japon > Okinawa.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Biopolitics.
Military bases, American > Social aspects.
Miscegenation.
Soldiers > Sexual behavior.
Japan > Okinawa-ken.
Japan > Okinawa-shi.
United States.
1900-1999
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.