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Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life by Annmaria M. Shimabuku is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life about?
Okinawan life, at the crossroads of American militarism and Japanese capitalism, embodies a fundamental contradiction to the myth of the monoethnic state. Suspended in a state of exception, Okinawans have never been officially classified as colonial subjects of the Japanese empire or the United States, nor have they ever been treated as equal citizens of Japan. As a result, they live amid one of the densest concentrations of U.S. military bases in the world. By bringing Foucauldian biopolitics into conversation with Japanese Marxian theorizations of capitalism, Alegal uncovers Japan’s determination to protect its middle class from the racialized sexual contact around its mainland bases by displacing them onto Okinawa, while simultaneously upholding Okinawa as a symbol of the infringement of Japanese sovereignty figured in terms of a patriarchal monoethnic state. This symbolism, however, has provoked ambivalence within Okinawa. In base towns that facilitated encounters between G.I.s and Okinawan women, the racial politics of the United States collided with the postcolonial politics of the Asia Pacific. Through close readings of poetry, reportage, film, and memoir on base-town life s
Who reads Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Annmaria M. Shimabuku
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780823282654
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, History, Science