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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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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.