Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life
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作者Annmaria M. Shimabuku
出版社Fordham University Press
ISBN9780823282654
出版时间2018-12
印刷时间2018-12
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页数224页
上书时间2022-04-15
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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 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 Alegal is a story about how borderland actors reclaimed the power of life for themselves.
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.
冲绳的生活，在美国军国主义和日本资本主义的十字路口，体现了一个基本的矛盾，神话的单一民族国家。处于特殊状态的冲绳人，从未被正式列为日本帝国或美国的殖民地，也从未被视为日本的平等公民。因此，他们生活在世界上，美国军事基地最密集的地区之一。通过将福柯主义生物政治学与日本马克思主义的资本主义理论进行对话，法律揭露了日本保护其中产阶级免受其大陆基地周围种族主义性接触的决心，将他们迁移到冲绳，同时坚持将冲绳作为侵犯日本主权的象征，这种侵犯以父权制单一民族国家的形式表现出来。在基地城镇，促进了美国士兵和冲绳妇女之间的接触，美国的种族政治与亚太地区的后殖民政治相冲突。通过仔细阅读1945年以来的诗歌，报告文学，电影，以及关于基地生活的回忆录，岛津追溯了“成为日本人”的持续失败相反，她看到的是围绕着性工作的复杂政治，在叛乱和合作之间的刀锋边缘，随着波动而倾斜。主权力量试图保护冲绳作为军事要塞的危险在于，必须包含真理本身——也就是说，一种不能被法律秩序所削弱的生命力。如果说生物政治是国家垄断生命的企图，那么平法则是一个关于边疆势力如何为自己夺回生命权力的故事。除了日本和冲绳的学者，这本书对任何对后殖民主义、军国主义、混血研究、性别和性行为，或现代世界主权的产生感兴趣的人来说，都是必读书。
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出版社 : Fordham University Press; 第 1st 版 (2018年12月25日)
语言 : 英语
平装 : 224页
ISBN-10 : 0823282651
ISBN-13 : 978-0823282654
商品重量 : 340 g
尺寸 : 15.24 x 2.29 x 22.61 cm
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