Militarized Currents Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific

Name: Militarized Currents Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific
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ISBN: 9780816665068

ISBN-10: 0816665060

ISBN-13: 9780816665068

Edition: 2010

Authors: Setsu Shigematsu, Keith L. Camacho

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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 subordinationand their gendered and racialized processesshapes and produces bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance.Contributors: Walden Bello, U of the Philippines; Michael Lujan Bevacqua, U of Guam; Patti Duncan, Oregon…

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List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 3/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Militarized Currents, Decolonizing Futures




Militarized Bodies of Memory



Memorializing Pu'uloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor




Bikinis and Other S/pacific N/oceans




The Exceptional Life and Death of a Chamorro Soldier: Tracing the Militarization of Desire in Guam, USA




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




Militarized Movements



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




South Korean Movements against Militarized Sexual Labor




Uncomfortable Fatigues: Chamorro Soldiers, Gendered Identities, and the Question of Decolonization in Guam




Militarized Filipino Masculinity and the Language of Citizenship in San Diego




Hetero/Homo-sexualized Militaries



On Romantic Love and Military Violence: Transpacific Imperialism and U.S.-Japan Complicity




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




Why Have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Included Women? The State's "Nonfeminist Reasons"




Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of U.S. Militarism in South Korea



Conclusion: From American Lake to a Peoples Pacific in the Twenty-First Century



Contributors


Index