Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific

by Setsu Shigematsu, Keith L. Camacho

Overview

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 subordination—and their gendered and racialized processes—shapes 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 Vicuña Gonzalez, U of Hawai‘i, M noa; Insook Kwon, Myongji U; Laurel A. Monnig, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816665068
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	03/22/2010
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

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 Cynthia Enloe vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Militarized Currents, Decolonizing Futures Setsu Shigematsu Keith L. Camacho xv

I Militarized Bodies of Memory

1 Memorializing Pu'uloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor Jon Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio 3

2 Bikinis and Other S/pacific N/oceans Teresia K. Teaiwa 15

3 The Exceptional Life and Death of a Chamorro Soldier: Tracing the Militarization of Desire in Guam, USA Michael Lujan Bevacqua 33

4 Touring Military Masculinities: U.S.-Philippines Circuits of Sacrifice and Gratitude in Corregidor and Bataan Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez 63

II Militarized Movements

5 Rising Up from a Sea of Discontent: The 1970 Koza Uprising in U.S.-Occupied Okinawa Wesley Iwao Ueunten 91

6 South Korean Movements against Militarized Sexual Labor Katharine H. S. Moon 125

7 Uncomfortable Fatigues: Chamorro Soldiers, Gendered Identities, and the Question of Decolonization in Guam Keith L. Camacho Laurel A. Monnig 147

8 Militarized Filipino Masculinity and the Language of Citizenship in San Diego Theresa Cenidoza Suarez 181

III Hetero/Homo-sexualized Militaries

9 On Romantic Love and Military Violence: Transpacific Imperialism and U.S.-Japan Complicity Naoki Sakai 205

10 Masculinity and Male-on-Male Sexual Violence in the Military: Focusing on the Absence of the Issue Insook Kwon 223

11 Why Have the Japanese Self-Defense Forces Included Women? The State's "Nonfeminist Reasons" Fumika Sato 251

12 Genealogies of Unbelonging: Amerasians and Transnational Adoptees as Legacies of U.S. Militarism in South Korea Patti Duncan 277

Conclusion: From American Lake to a Peoples Pacific in the Twenty-First Century Walden Bello 309

Contributors 323

Index 327