Bone and Coral: Ossuopower and the Control of (Future) Remains in Occupied Okinawa

IF 0.5 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Nozomi Saito
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Abstract:Biopolitical and necropolitical frameworks posit death as sovereignty's limit. However, colonial abuses of indigenous remains suggest otherwise. Taking Achille Mbembe's necropolitics as a point of departure, I draw attention to the extraction of soil containing human remains in the US military base construction of occupied Okinawa. I argue that ossuopower—the right to control remains, both human and nonhuman—is fundamental to colonial territorial expansion. Tracing the stories of bones, I first contextualize the exercise of ossuopower in the history of US settler colonialism and garrison militarism in the Pacific, where bones symbolize sovereign power and claims to land. I then offer a case study of the exercise of the right over remains in Okinawa, from the post–World War II era of US occupation through Reversion-era mainland Japanese development to the current Futenma Airbase relocation. Bones bear the material traces of the changing forces of US militarization and Japanese maldevelopment. In closing, I analyze Tsuyoshi Shima's short story "Bones" to illumine an indigenous Okinawan relation to land and suggest the need for epistemes of care for remains and land. In theorizing ossuopower, I offer a lens to analyze the entanglement of militarization, globalization, and securitization in the Pacific Century.
骨与珊瑚:被占领冲绳(未来)遗存的骨权力与控制
摘要:生命政治和死亡政治框架将死亡视为主权的极限。然而,殖民对土著遗骸的虐待表明情况并非如此。以阿奇利·姆本贝的死亡政治为出发点,我提请注意在被占领的冲绳美军基地建设中提取含有人类遗骸的土壤。我认为,不论是人类还是非人类,控制的权利都是殖民领土扩张的基础。追寻骨头的故事,我首先将骨头权力的行使置于美国殖民主义和驻军军国主义在太平洋地区的历史背景中,骨头象征着主权权力和对土地的要求。然后,我提供了一个对冲绳遗骸行使权利的案例研究,从二战后的美国占领时期,到日本大陆的复兴时期,再到目前的普天间空军基地搬迁。骨头上有美国军事化和日本不良发展的物质痕迹。最后,我分析了岛刚(Tsuyoshi Shima)的短篇小说《骨头》(Bones),以阐明冲绳原住民与土地的关系,并提出对遗骸和土地的关怀的必要性。在理论化ossupower的过程中,我提供了一个视角来分析太平洋世纪军事化、全球化和证券化之间的纠缠。
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AMERICAN QUARTERLY
AMERICAN QUARTERLY HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American Studies. The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts. This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture. Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American Studies.
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