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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Main Author: Shimabuku, Annmaria M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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