9780822358015-0822358018-The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society)

ISBN-13: 9780822358015
ISBN-10: 0822358018
Author: Wendy Matsumura
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822358015
ISBN-10: 0822358018
Author: Wendy Matsumura
Publication date: 2015
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 288 pages

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The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) (ISBN-13: 9780822358015 and ISBN-10: 0822358018), written by authors Wendy Matsumura, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2015. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Economic Conditions (Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economic Conditions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.94.

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Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic “South,” both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produced and reproduced “Okinawa” as an organic, transhistorical entity. Informed by recent Marxist attempts to expand the understanding of the capitalist mode of production to include the production of subjectivity, Matsumura provides a new understanding of Okinawa's place in Japanese and world history, and it establishes a new locus for considering the relationships between empire, capital, nation, and identity.

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