Ebook: Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life

Alegal traces the trans-Pacific biopolitics between a postwar American empire of military bases and postcolonial Japan that secured Okinawa as a U.S. military fortress. It shows how both managed sex in its base towns from 1945 to 2015, and elucidates the potential for Okinawan insurgency in response to this collaboration.

Explores the politics of sex and race around U.S. military bases in Okinawa against the backdrop of the emergence of a postwar trans-Pacific legal order.