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Japan and Okinawa - Structure and Subjectivity (Paperback)
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Japan and Okinawa - Structure and Subjectivity (Paperback)
Series: The University of Sheffield/Routledge Japanese Studies Series
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Japan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and
theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective
of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure
and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their
relationship with global, regional and national structures. The
book draws on a range of disciplines to provide new insights into
both the contemporary and historical place of Okinawa and the
Okinawans. The first half of the book examines Okinawa as part of
the global, regional and national structures which impose
constraints as well as offer opportunities to Okinawa. Leading
specialists examine in detail topics such as Okinawa as a frontier
region, Okinawa's Free Trade Zones and response to globalization,
and Okinawa as part of the Japanese 'construction state', being
particularly concerned with how Okinawa can chart its own course.
The second half focuses on questions of identity and subjectivity,
examining the multitude of vibrant cultural practices that breathe
life into the meaning of being Okinawan and inform their social and
political responses to structural constraints. The originality of
this book can be found in its elucidation of how the structural
constraints of Okinawa's precarious position in the world, the
region and as part of Japan impact on subjectivity. For many
Okinawans, in the past as now, acceptance and rationalization of
their dependency has made them collaborators in their own
subordination. At the same time, however, they have demonstrated a
capacity to give voice to a separate identity, inscribing cultural
practices marking them as different from mainland Japanese.
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