Militarized Currents

by Shigematsu, Setsu

• ISBN13: 9780816665068
• ISBN10: 0816665060
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-29
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

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 State U; Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, U of Hawai'i, M noa; Insook Kwon, Myongji U; Laurel A. Monnig, U of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign; Katharine H. S. Moon, Wellesley College; Jon Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio, U of Hawai'i, M noa; 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.

Author Biography

Setsu Shigematsu is assistant professor of media and cultural studies, University of California, Riverside.

Keith L. Camacho is assistant professor of Asian American studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Cynthia Enloe is professor of government and women’s studies at Clark University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Militarized Currents, Decolonizing Futures	p. xv
Militarized Bodies of Memory
Memorializing Pu'uloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor	p. 3
Bikinis and Other S/pacific N/oceans	p. 15
The Exceptional Life and Death of a Chamorro Soldier: Tracing the Militarization of Desire in Guam, USA	p. 33
Touring Military Masculinities: U.S.-Philippines Circuits of Sacrifice and Gratitude in Corregidor and Bataan	p. 63
Militarized Movements
Rising Up from a Sea of Discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa	p. 91
South Korean Movements against Militarized Sexual Labor	p. 125
Uncomfortable Fatigues: Chamorro Soldiers, Gendered Identities, and the Question of Decolonization in Guam	p. 147
Militarized Filipino Masculinity and the Language of Citizenship in San Diego	p. 181
Hetero/Homo-sexualized Militaries
On Romantic Love and Military Violence: Transpacific Imperialism and U.S.-Japan Complicity	p. 205
Masculinity and Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in the Military: Focusing on the Absence of the Issue	p. 223
Why Have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Included Women? The State's "Nonfeminist Reasons"	p. 251
Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of U.S. Militarism in South Korea	p. 277
Conclusion: From American Lake to a Peoples Pacific in the Twenty-First Century	p. 309
Contributors	p. 323
Index	p. 327
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