The Translocal Island of Okinawa : Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism / Shinnosuke Takahashi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Takahashi, Shinnosuke, author.

Series:

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--20th century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

The Translocal Island of Okinawa reveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions that are involved in the making of Okinawan resistance against its subordinated status under the US-Japan security system beyond the narrowly defined political, cultural and geographical borders of locality. As Okinawa's base politics is a problem deeply rooted in the context of East Asia, so is the history of the people's protest movement. The issue examined in this book is the arbitrary distinction of scale between 'local', which tends to be employed for a particular territory demarcated by a cohesive culture, and 'regional', a larger area that consists of myriad localities. Locality, Shinnosuke Takahashi here argues, is neither self-evident, fixed nor homogenous but is established through historical processes that involve interaction, conflict and negotiation of individuals and communities across territorial and cultural boundaries. This book reveals the novel concept of Okinawa as a translocal island which offers a way to understand locality in the context of Okinawan activism as a product of multiple cultural and human flows, as opposed to the conventional way of framing the local community as fixed, internally cohesive and rigidly bordered. It makes an exciting contribution to the field of modern Japanese and East Asian studies by stimulating discussions on the richness and scale of local civic activism that is increasingly becoming a key political feature of the East Asian region.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Explanatory Notes List of Acronyms 1. Imagining the Islands against the Grain 2. The Political Dynamics of Anti-Base Struggle in the US-Occupied Okinawa 3. Remaking the Site of Struggle in Post-Reversion Okinawa 4. The Ryukyu Arc, Japanesia and Shimao Toshio's Cultural Resistance Against Colonial Politics of the Past 5. From Okinawa to Asia: Internationalisation of the Okinawan Anti-Base Struggle 6. Translocal Lives in Okinawa Anti-Base Activism 7. Invisible Threads of Regionalism Selected Bibliography Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350411548

135041154X

9781350411555

1350411558

9781350411524

1350411523

OCLC:

1428262358