Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific
ISBN: 9780816673513
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press
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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 subordinationOCoand their gendered and racialized processesOCoshapes and produces bodies of memory, knowledge, and resistance.Contributors: Walden Bello, U of the Philippines; Michael Lujan Bevacqua, U of Guam; Patti Duncan, Oregon State U; Vernadette Vicua Gonzalez, U of HawaiOCyi, Manoa; Insook Kwon, Myongji U; Laurel A. Monnig, U of Illinois, UrbanaOCoChampaign; Katharine H. S. Moon, Wellesley College; Jon KamakawiwoOCyole Osorio, U of HawaiOCyi, Manoa; Naoki Sakai, Cornell U; Fumika Sato, Hitotsubashi U; Theresa Cenidoza Suarez, California State U, San Marcos; Teresia K. Teaiwa, Victoria U, Wellington; Wesley Iwao Ueunten, San Francisco State U.
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