Militarized currents : toward a decolonized future in Asia and the Pacific / Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho, editors ; foreword by Cynthia Enloe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shigematsu, Setsu.

Camacho, Keith L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Militarism--Pacific Area--History--20th century.

Militarism.

Militarism--Social aspects--Pacific Area.

Imperialism--History--20th century.

Imperialism.

United States--Foreign relations--Pacific Area.

United States.

Pacific Area--Foreign relations--United States.

Pacific Area.

Japan--Foreign relations--Pacific Area.

Japan.

Pacific Area--Foreign relations--Japan.

Pacific Area--Politics and government--21st century.

Pacific Area--Social conditions--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foregrounding indigenous and feminist scholarship, this collection analyzes militarization as an extension of colonialism from the late twentieth to the twenty-first century in Asia and the Pacific. The contributors theorize the effects of militarization across former and current territories of Japan and the United States, such as Guam, Okinawa, the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, and Korea, demonstrating that the relationship between militarization and colonial subordination-and their gendered and racialized processes-shapes and produces bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance.Contribu

Contents:

Foreword / Cynthia Enloe

Introduction: Militarized Currents, Decolonizing Futures / Setsu Shigematsu and Keith L. Camacho

Militarized Bodies of Memory

Memorializing Puʻuloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor / Jon Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio

Bikinis and Other S/pacific N/oceans / Teresia K. Teaiwa

The Exceptional Life and Death of a Chamorro Soldier: Tracing the Militarization of Desire in Guam, [overstrike] USA / Michael Lujan Bevacqua

Touring Military Masculinities: U.S.-Philippines Circuits of Sacrifice and Gratitude in Corregidor and Bataan / Vemadetle Vicuna Gonzalez

II. Militarized Movements

Rising Up from a Sea of Discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa / Wesley Iwao Ueunten

South Korean Movements against Militarized Sexual Labor / Katharine H. S. Moon

Uncomfortable Fatigues: Chamorro Soldiers, Gendered Identities, and the Question of Decolonization in Guam / Keith L. Camacho and Laurel A. Monnig

Militarized Filipino Masculinity and the Language of Citizenship in San Diego / Theresa Cenidoza Suarez

Hetero/Homo-sexualized Militaries

On Romantic Love and Military Violence: Transpacific Imperialism and US.-Japan Complicity / Naoki Sakai

Masculinity and Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in the Military: Focusing on the Absence of the Issue / Insook Kwon

Why have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Included Women? The State's "Nonfeminist Reasons" / Fumika Sato

Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of US. Militarism in South Korea / Patti Duncan

Conclusion: From American Lake to a People's Pacific in the Twenty-First Century / Walden Bello.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4632-9

0-8166-7351-9

OCLC:

646068317