{"product_id":"alegal-biopolitics-and-the-unintelligibility-of-okinawan-life-paperback-softback-9780823282654","title":"Alegal; Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823282654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAlegal\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBiopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnnmaria M. Shimabuku (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823282654\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 25 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e224 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.368 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOkinawan 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, \u003ci\u003eAlegal \u003c\/i\u003euncovers 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. \u003cbr\u003e 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 since 1945, Shimabuku traces a continuing failure to \"become Japanese.\" What she discerns instead is a complex politics surrounding sex work, tipping with volatility along the razor's edge between insurgency and collaboration. At stake in sovereign power's attempt to secure Okinawa as a military fortress was the need to contain alegality itself—that is, a life force irreducible to the legal order. If biopolitics is the state's attempt to monopolize life, then \u003ci\u003eAlegal\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about how borderland actors reclaimed the power of life for themselves. \u003cbr\u003e In addition to scholars of Japan and Okinawa, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in postcolonialism, militarism, mixed-race studies, gender and sexuality, or the production of sovereignty in the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e Alegal \u003ci\u003eis available from the publisher on an open-access basis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface \u003c\/b\u003eix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote on Translations and Romanizations\u003c\/b\u003e xvii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Commonly Used Acronyms and Abbreviations \u003c\/b\u003exix\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003eJapan in the 1950s: Symbolic Victims 15\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2.\u003c\/b\u003e Okinawa, 1945–1952: Allegories of Becoming 38\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003eOkinawa, 1952–1958: Solidarity under the Cover of Darkness 65\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e Okinawa, 1958–1972: The Subaltern Speaks 88\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5.\u003c\/b\u003e Okinawa, 1972–1995: Life That Matters 124\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eConclusion \u003c\/b\u003e143\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/b\u003e147\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNotes \u003c\/b\u003e149\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected Bibliography \u003c\/b\u003e195\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex \u003c\/b\u003e211\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580331520280,"sku":"9780823282654","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/alegal-biopolitics-and-the-unintelligibility-of-okinawan-life-paperback-softback-9780823282654","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}