The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism by Takahashi, Shinnosuke

The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism

The Translocal Island of Okinawareveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions that are involved in the making...
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Author: Shinnosuke Takahashi
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Language: English
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The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism by Takahashi, Shinnosuke

The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism

€106,57

The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism

€106,57
Author: Shinnosuke Takahashi
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The Translocal Island of Okinawareveals 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.

Author: Shinnosuke Takahashi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 07/11/2024
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781350411531

About the Author
Shinnosuke Takahashi is Lecturer in Japanese Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the co-editor of Transpacific Visions: Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South (2021) and Transnational Japan as History (2015).

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