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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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.