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 response...

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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
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Table of Contents:

Cover; ALEGAL; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Note on Translations and Romanizations; List of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Japan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims; 2. Okinawa, 1945-1952: Allegories of Becoming; 3. Okinawa, 1952-1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness; 4. Okinawa, 1958-1972: The Subaltern Speaks; 5. Okinawa, 1972-1995: Life That Matters; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index.