Cover Image

Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life.

Show other versions (2)

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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shimabuku, Annmaria M.
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Biopolitics > Japan > Okinawa-shi.
Military bases, American > Social aspects > Japan > Okinawa-ken.
Miscegenation > Japan > Okinawa-shi > History > 20th century.
Soldiers > Sexual behavior > United States > History > 20th century.
Japanese Marxism.
Japanese New Left.
Japanese proletarian literature.
Okinawa.
U.S. military prostitution.
biopolitics.
lumpenproletariat.
mixed-race studies.
postcolonial Japanese studies.
transpacific studies.
Biopolitique > Japon > Okinawa.
Bases militaires américaines > Aspect social > Japon > Okinawa (Ken)
Métissage > Japon > Okinawa > Histoire > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
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
Description
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (241 pages)
ISBN:9780823282685
0823282686
9780823282678
0823282678