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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2018. Ã2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (241 pages) |
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| 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9780823282685 9780823282661 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |