Community of Nuchi Du Takara ("Life Is the Ultimate Treasure") in Postwar Okinawa

Local Subjectivity within and against Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvMasamichi (Marro) Inoue,Inoue

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Against the background of the prolonged US military presence in post–World War II Okinawa, The Community of Nuchi Du Takara (“Life Is the Ultimate Treasure”) in Postwar Okinawa explores the conflict between Okinawa and the US-Japan alliance. Developing the local notion of nuchi du takara into an analytical concept, Inoue examines how Okinawan activists, artists, writers, and other social actors have resisted US military presence, particularly the planned construction of a new military facility in northern Okinawa. The concept of nuchi du takara also helps Inoue explore complex negotiations Okinawa has had with Washington and Tokyo beyond resistance and protest, a process that involves developing a local communal capacity to embrace diverse and often contradictory attitudes toward the US military. Inoue’s grounded investigation underscores the possibility of small yet significant, incremental social changes from below, a possibility that ultimately points toward the World Republic—an international politics built upon peace, democracy, and shared affluence—against the sovereignty of global capitalism.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-10
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor456
FörlagThe University of Michigan Press
ISBN9780472077144

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Introduction Part I. Anti-base Struggles in Henoko and the Formation of the Community of Nuchi Du Takara by the Okinawan MultitudeIntroduction to Part IChapter 1: Anti-base Struggles in Henoko, 2004-2023 Chapter 2: Protest as a Life-Form of the Okinawan Multitude: Internal Workings of the Community of Nuchi Du TakaraConclusion to Part 1Part II . Money and Taboo: Okinawan Subjectivity as “a Changing Same” and the Construction of the Community of Nuchi Du TakaraIntroduction to Part IIChapter 3: Ambivalence toward the U.S. Military: Formation of the Androcentric Community by the Okinawan “People” (1945-1972)Chapter 4: Money and the Development of Okinawan Citizenship in Post-Reversion Okinawa (1970s-1990s)Conclusion to Part IIPart III. Empire in the Asia-Pacific Region: Between American/Global and Japanese/NationalIntroduction to Part IIIChapter 5: American/Global/Postmodern Tendencies of Empire: Five Historical Moments of Its Formation and TransformationChapter 6: Dojin and Okinawa: Official Nationalism v.1, v.2, and v.3Conclusion to Part IIIPart IV. A Paradigm beyond Self and Other: The Okinawan Multitude within and against Empire in the Asia-Pacific RegionIntroduction to Part IVChapter 7: The Mimetic Production of the Okinawan Multitude in the Planetary Time-Space Chapter 8: Conclusion: Collective Security from an Okinawan PerspectiveReferences