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Author Shimabuku, Annmaria M., editor.

Title Alegal : biopolitics and the unintelligibility of Okinawan life / Annmaria M. Shimabuku.

Publication Info. New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource
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computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Note Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 31, 2018).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Japan in the 1950s : symbolic victims -- Okinawa, 1945-1952 : allegories of becoming -- Okinawa, 1952-1958 : solidarity under the cover of darkness -- Okinawa, 1958-1972 : the subaltern speaks -- Okinawa, 1972-1995 : life that matters.
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"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Miscegenation -- Japan -- Okinawa-shi -- History -- 20th century.
Military bases, American -- Social aspects -- Japan -- Okinawa-ken.
Soldiers -- Sexual behavior -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Biopolitics -- Japan -- Okinawa-shi.
Okinawa-shi (Japan) -- History -- 20th century.
Métissage -- Japon -- Okinawa -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
Bases militaires américaines -- Aspect social -- Japon -- Okinawa (Ken)
Biopolitique -- Japon -- Okinawa.
HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Biopolitics
Military bases, American -- Social aspects
Miscegenation
Soldiers -- Sexual behavior
Japan -- Okinawa-ken https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxhtwWKbHfdHM4xp6GJXd
Japan -- Okinawa-shi https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmMXcM3MpRMT6xx6GTT73
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
ISBN 9780823282685 (electronic bk.)
0823282686 (electronic bk.)
9780823282661
Standard No. AU@ 000064843258

 
    
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