Alegal Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life
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 Stat...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Fordham University Press
[2018]
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Edición: | First edition |
Colección: | Fordham scholarship online.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009431228806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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