Examines the process of manufacturing civil society's consent to militarism and the effects of propaganda on the public mind in the context of contemporary Okinawa

Considers how civil rights and freedoms are represented and demolished as obstacles to states' security rationale and neoliberal expansion

Offers a sociologically informed model of propaganda control and resistance to militarism applicable to other societies with U.S. bases around the globe

Autorentext

Miyume Tanji (Ph.D. in politics) is an honorary lecturer at the Australian National University. Miyume has written about social movements in Okinawa, and is the author of 'Myth, Protest and Struggle in Okinawa' (2006). Miyume has been a guest editor of Amerasia Journal's special issue on 'Indigenous Asias' (volume 41, 2015), and contributed articles to academic journals such as Critical Asian Studies, Japan Focus: the Asia-Pacific Journal, and Asian Studies Review. Daniel Broudy is Chair of the Graduate School of Intercultural Communication and Professor of Rhetoric and Applied Linguistics at Okinawa Christian University, Japan. He holds a Ph.D. in applied psycholinguistics from Deakin University and an M.A. in rhetoric from Norwich University. His research activities include analysis of textual and symbolic representations of power that dominate post-industrial culture.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Part I. Theories of Development and Destruction.- PART II. Practices and Analyses.- Part III. Interviews: Reflections on Free Speech Past and Present.- Part IV. Resistance Movements: Reflections and Analysis.- Conclusion.