Umfang:
1 online resource (268 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203222690
Serie:
The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Ser.
Inhalt:
Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their relationship with global, regional and national structures. The book draws on a range of disciplines to provide new insights into both the contemporary and historical place of Okinawa and the Okinawans. The first half of the book examines Okinawa as part of the global, regional and national structures which impose constraints as well as offer opportunities to Okinawa. Leading specialists examine in detail topics such as Okinawa as a frontier region, Okinawa's Free Trade Zones and response to globalization, and Okinawa as part of the Japanese 'construction state', being particularly concerned with how Okinawa can chart its own course. The second half focuses on questions of identity and subjectivity, examining the multitude of vibrant cultural practices that breathe life into the meaning of being Okinawan and inform their social and political responses to structural constraints. The originality of this book can be found in its elucidation of how the structural constraints of Okinawa's precarious position in the world, the region and as part of Japan impact on subjectivity. For many Okinawans, in the past as now, acceptance and rationalization of their dependency has made them collaborators in their own subordination. At the same time, however, they have demonstrated a capacity to give voice to a separate identity, inscribing cultural practices marking them as different from mainland Japanese.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Japan and Okinawa Structure and subjectivity -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the text -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: Japan? Structure and subjectivity in Okinawa -- Part I Structure -- 2 Considering Okinawa as a frontier -- 3 Responding to globalization: Okinawa's Free Trade Zone in microregional context -- 4 It is high time to wake up: Japanese foreign policy in the twenty-first century -- 5 Migration and the nation-state: structural explanations for emigration from Okinawa -- 6 Okinawa and the structure of dependence -- 7 Beyond hondo: devolution and Okinawa -- Part II Subjectivity -- 8 Return to Uchina: the politics of identity in contemporary Okinawa -- 9 'Mob rule' or popular activism? The Koza riot of December 1970 and the Okinawan search for citizenship -- 10 The dynamic trajectory of the post-reversion 'Okinawa Struggle': constitution, environment and gender -- 11 Contested memories: struggles over war and peace in contemporary Okinawa -- 12 Nuchi nu Suji: comedy and everyday life in postwar Okinawa -- 13 Arakawa Akira: the thought and poetry of an iconoclast -- 14 Conclusion: both structure and subjectivity -- Index.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415298339
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415298339
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Print version Japan and Okinawa : Structure and Subjectivity
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=171407
