Geopolitics of disregard: Living a colonial life in Okinawa

Nishiyama, Hidefumi

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2019.102042

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“…Hidefumi Nishiyama (2019) coins the expression ‘geopolitics of disregard’ to tease out ‘acts of disregarding certain forms of violence and injustice’ in ‘everyday’ (rank and file) military life in Okinawa from the late 19th century. Stephen Legg (2020: 774) uses a related term, ‘political atmospherics’, in connection with early 20th-century international conferences, examining how material settings, objects and atmospheres (conference travel, meeting rooms and actualities and metaphors of weather) combined with political moods, bodily gestures and forms of speech, or ‘atmospherics’, to connect (and in this context racialise) ‘place, bodies and politics’.…”

Section: Disregardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical geography I: Doom, danger, disregard – Towards political historical geographies

Clayton

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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‘Doom’, ‘danger’ and ‘disregard’ are palpable sentiments in recent writing by historical geographers and give the subfield some decidedly political intonations. These three words have diverse, disquieting and expectant connotations and are tracked in this report through clusters of research on colonialism, racism, decolonisation, climate change, Earth history and political reaction and populism. This range of historical work within geography provokes more general questions about how the discipline, generally, sees itself today and at a time of profound uncertainty about the meaning and direction of history. At this time, it is easy to be despondent but vital to hope and work for change.

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Section: Disregardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical geography I: Doom, danger, disregard – Towards political historical geographies

Clayton

2021

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Investigating the center and a kind of resistance towards the 'norm' or 'civilized' propagated by the colonial power was present in the novel. Maybe that is how, at some point, he felt and reacted rather configuring Bhabha's (Bhaba, 2012) concept of 'mimicry' (Nishiyama, 2019). The novel is not only a pen picture of an Assam's ethnic tribe, or it cannot be asserted only with the words that it is the first novel that writes about a tribal community.…”

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Constructing Ethnic Identity in Rajanikanta Bardoloi’s Miri Jiyori: A (Post) Colonial Understanding of the Text

Phukan

2020

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Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to understand the concept of ethnic Identity projected in the early novels of Assamese literature. This study also investigates a colonial narrative in the text and tries to understand the present scenario highlighting the past. Methodology: It is a descriptive analysis based on qualitative method research. Focusing on the concept of ethnic Identity the research has been done under the discourse of postcolonial literary theory. The data and speculation are drawn from the secondary sources. Any kind of technical software has not been used in carrying out the research. Main Findings: The research brings out to the forefront that even in the colonial period; the native writers seem to be conscious about their own culture and the society. They were aware of the marginal boundary created by hegemonic colonial products. The writers raise the question of constructing ‘self’ and ‘other’ and a developing sense of cultural hierarchy. Applications of this study: This study would help to locate the space of marginalised society in that colonial construction and help the researchers to understand the gap between the early Assamese literatures of the colonial period. Moreover, the study also finds out the awareness of the writers even in the colonial rule about the peripheral boundary and ethnic Identity of a multiethnic/multilingual society. Novelty/Originality of this study: It is certain that Assamese novels have been studied under various theoretical frameworks, but as we are concerned this theme has not been discussed yet for this particular novel. The presentation of the colonial past in the text is the originality of this research.

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“…Figure 4 is the fence built on the beach at the west-end of Camp Schwab in Oura Baysometimes known as 'Henoko Beach' (Henoko no hama)which is currently the planned relocation site for Futenma Air Base. This plan has been highly contested both within Nago City and across Okinawa (Nishiyama 2019). Unlike military restricted areas that were created inside their own national territory, these boundaries of bases in Okinawa should be understood as borders.…”

Section: The Colonial Territorialisation Of Okinawamentioning

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Base borders: Militarisation and (post-)colonial bordering in Okinawa

Nishiyama

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article builds on the political geography of islands and emerging research on the relationship between island, border and sovereignty. Today, islands are recognised as crucial sites for the understanding of contemporary border controls. Military bases that were built during earlier colonial periods are increasingly used for transnational migrant detention practices. This article aims to offer another important insight to the politics of borders from an island perspective. Drawing from the case of Okinawa, the article shows how bases on islands themselves produce borders. Fences and lines that encircle the US bases on Okinawa Island cannot be reduced to conventional military off-limits boundaries. They are particular kinds of borders, which I would call ‘base borders’, that continue to divide the island into military and public spaces and demarcate two seemingly territorially bound sovereignties. Base borders are, however, more than the manifestation of extraterritoriality. While they regulate the mobility of local residents, base borders enable military servicemembers to enjoy extraterritorial rights, including the right to avoid being held responsible for a crime they committed outside the bases. In addition to this uneven mobility control, base borders have a function to control local resistance movements through the criminalisation of the base border crossing by protesters and the authorisation of the use of force by security guards. This article closely investigates how base borders function and are used in reality, and in doing so, it uncovers multiple ways in which base borders reproduce colonial relations between the US military (in coordination with Japan) and Okinawa.

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Geopolitics of disregard: Living a colonial life in Okinawa

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

Historical geography I: Doom, danger, disregard – Towards political historical geographies

Historical geography I: Doom, danger, disregard – Towards political historical geographies

Constructing Ethnic Identity in Rajanikanta Bardoloi’s Miri Jiyori: A (Post) Colonial Understanding of the Text

Base borders: Militarisation and (post-)colonial bordering in Okinawa

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