Building Among the Ruins: Contesting the Space of Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8942
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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Nelson, Christopher T.
Conference:	Commoners and the Changing Commons: Livelihoods, Environmental Security, and Shared Knowledge, the Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons
Location:	Mt. Fuji, Japan
Conf. Date:	June 3-7
Date:	2013
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8942
Sector:	Social Organization
Region:	East Asia
Subject(s):	military genocide IASC
Abstract:	"The notion of the negative commons can be applied easily to the American military bases that Okinawa Prefecture is required to house. My paper will address that problem, but I will also consider another collectively shared burden: that of the guilt and trauma associated with colonial domination, wartime genocide and American occupation. I will consider it as an oppressive weight to be borne by the Okinawan people as well as a resource that allows them to envision and create new possibilities."

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