Alegal : Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
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.
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.