The Translocal Island of Okinawa by Shinnosuke Takahashi - 9781350411531

The Translocal Island of OkinawaAnti-Base Activism and Grassroots Regionalism\nAuthor(s): Shinnosuke Takahashi\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350411531, 978-1350411531\nSynopsis\nThe Translocal Island of Okinawa reveals 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 Okinawas base politics is a problem deeply rooted in the context of East Asia, so is the history of the peoples 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.\n\nLocality, Shinnosuke Takahashi here argues, is neither self-e.