{"id":14056,"date":"2011-05-30T19:46:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T19:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14056"},"modified":"2011-05-30T19:46:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-30T19:46:37","slug":"petitioning-subjects-miscegenation-in-okinawa-from-1945-to-1952-and-the-crisis-of-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14056","title":{"rendered":"Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/14649373.2010.484172\" target=\"_blank\">Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/title~db=all~content=t713701267\" target=\"_blank\">Inter-Asia Cultural Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/gotoissue~db=all~content=a926373783\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 11, Issue 3<\/a> (2010)<br \/>\npages 355-374<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/14649373.2010.484172\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/14649373.2010.484172<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/complitforlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/bio.html?page=shimabuku.html\" target=\"_blank\">Annmaria Shimabuku<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Riverside<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper tells a story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> between US military personnel and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okinawa_Prefecture\" target=\"_blank\">Okinawan<\/a> women from 1945-1952, which includes sexual violence, the establishment of &#8216;entertainment districts,&#8217; and the emergence of international marriage. Whereas this history has been mobilized by leftists as a truth-weapon in the struggle for political sovereignty from the US military, this paper takes an explicitly genealogical approach. Drawing on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michel_Foucault\" target=\"_blank\">Foucault&#8217;s<\/a> work on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biopower\" target=\"_blank\">biopower<\/a>, this paper shows how Okinawans were transformed into &#8216;petitioning subject&#8217;\u2014subjects that negotiated the sexual exploitation of their bodies in tandem with the radically changing relationship between their bodies and the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informaworld.com\/smpp\/ftinterface~content=a926373783~fulltext=713240930~frm=content\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petitioning subjects: miscegenation in Okinawa from 1945 to 1952 and the crisis of sovereignty Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Volume 11, Issue 3 (2010) pages 355-374 DOI: 10.1080\/14649373.2010.484172 Annmaria Shimabuku, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside This paper tells a story about miscegenation between US military personnel and Okinawan women from 1945-1952, which includes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,1196,8,25],"tags":[5617,6474,1793,1064,5098],"class_list":["post-14056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-annmaria-shimabuku","tag-inter-asia-cultural-studies","tag-japan","tag-michel-foucault","tag-okinawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}