LEADER 03563nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910955397603321 005 20251117115100.0 010 $a1-138-86309-2 010 $a1-134-42788-3 010 $a1-280-07005-6 010 $a0-203-22269-5 035 $a(CKB)111087026859190 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000300699 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11273038 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000300699 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10258806 035 $a(PQKB)10254868 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC171407 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL171407 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10099638 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL7005 035 $a(OCoLC)52999344 035 $a(BIP)50812808 035 $a(BIP)8137792 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087026859190 100 $a20031208d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aJapan and Okinawa $estructure and subjectivity /$fedited by Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle 210 $aLondon $cRoutledgeCurzon$d2003 215 $axii, 255 p 225 1 $aSheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-415-29833-4 311 08$a0-203-29785-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aJapan and Okinawa provides an up-to-date, coherent and theoretically informed examination of Okinawa from the perspective of political economy and society. It combines a focus on structure and subjectivity as a way to analyze Okinawa, Okinawans and their relationship with global, regional and national structures. The book draws on a range of disciplines to provide new insights into both the contemporary and historical place of Okinawa and the Okinawans. The first half of the book examines Okinawa as part of the global, regional and national structures which impose constraints as well as offer opportunities to Okinawa. Leading specialists examine in detail topics such as Okinawa as a frontier region, Okinawa's Free Trade Zones and response to globalization, and Okinawa as part of the Japanese 'construction state', being particularly concerned with how Okinawa can chart its own course. The second half focuses on questions of identity and subjectivity, examining the multitude of vibrant cultural practices that breathe life into the meaning of being Okinawan and inform their social and political responses to structural constraints. The originality of this book can be found in its elucidation of how the structural constraints of Okinawa's precarious position in the world, the region and as part of Japan impact on subjectivity. For many Okinawans, in the past as now, acceptance and rationalization of their dependency has made them collaborators in their own subordination. At the same time, however, they have demonstrated a capacity to give voice to a separate identity, inscribing cultural practices marking them as different from mainland Japanese. 410 0$aSheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/Routledge series. 607 $aJapan$xHistory 607 $aOkinawa Island (Japan)$xPolitics and government 607 $aOkinawa Island (Japan)$xSocial conditions 607 $aOkinawa Island (Japan)$xHistory 676 $a952.294 701 $aHook$b Glenn D$0124196 701 $aSiddle$b Richard$f1959-$01868197 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955397603321 996 $aJapan and Okinawa$94476055 997 $aUNINA