Over There

Maria Höhn and Seungsook Moon (Editors)

Description

Over There explores the social impact of America's global network of more than 700 military bases. It does so by examining interactions between U.S. soldiers and members of host communities in the three locations-South Korea, Japan and Okinawa, and West Germany-where more than-two thirds of American overseas bases and troops have been concentrated for the past six decades. The essays in this collection highlight the role of cultural and racial assumptions in the maintenance of the American military base system, and the ways that civil-military relations play out locally. Describing how political, spatial, and social arrangements shape relations between American garrisons and surrounding communities, they emphasize such factors as whether military bases are located in democratic nations or in authoritarian countries where cooperation with dictatorial regimes fuels resentment; whether bases are integrated into neighboring communities or isolated and surrounded by "camp towns" wholly dependent on their business; and whether the United States sends single soldiers without families on one-year tours of duty or soldiers who bring their families and serve longer tours. Analyzing the implications of these and other situations, the contributors address U.S. military-regulated relations between GIs and local women; the roles of American women, including military wives, abroad; local resistance to the U.S. military presence; and racism, sexism, and homophobia within the U.S. military. Over There is an essential examination of the American military as a global and transnational phenomenon.ContributorsDonna AlvahChris AmesJeff BennettMaria HohnSeungsook MoonChristopher NelsonRobin RileyMichiko Takeuchi

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• USA
• Sociology
• Social group
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 30 novembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822393283
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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Living with the

U.S. Military Empire

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T O F A R Z I N A N D C H A R L E S

C O N T E N T S

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Illustrations Tables A Note on Foreign Language Conventions Acknowledgments

introduction The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Class in the U.S. Military EmpireöhHannMiaarookoMnodeSnusg

part i monitored liaisons: local women and gis in the making of empire

1. Regulating Desire, Managing the Empire: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea, 1945–1970nSeungsookMoo

2. ‘‘Pan-Pan Girls’’ Performing and Resisting Neocolonialism(s) in the Pacific Theater: U.S. Military Prostitution in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952kauehciciihokTM

3. ‘‘You Can’t Pin Sergeant’s Stripes on an Archangel’’: Soldiering, Sexuality, and U.S. Army Policies in Germany MariaHöhn

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part ii civilian entanglements with the empire: american and foreign women abroad and at home 4. U.S. Military Families Abroad in the Post–Cold War Era and the ‘‘New Global Posture’’lvahnaADon

5. Crossfire Couples: Marginality and Agency among Okinawan Women in Relationships with U.S. Military MenmAsesriCh

6. Hidden Soldiers: Working for the ‘‘National Defense’’boniRliyeR

part iii talking back to the empire: local men and women 7. In the U.S. Army but Not Quite of It: Contesting the Imperial Power in a Discourse ofkatusasoskoMoonSuegn

8. ‘‘The American Soldier Dances, the German Soldier Marches’’: The Transformation of Germans’ Views ongis, Masculinity, and MilitarismHöhnaMair

9. In the Middle of the Road I Stand Transfixed

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part iv the empire under siege: racial crisis, abuse, and violence 10. The Racial Crisis of 1971 in the U.S. Military: Finding Solutions in West Germany and South KoreaHhöraaiMn311

11. Camptown Prostitution and the Imperialsofa: Abuse and Violence against Transnational Camptown Women in South Korea SeungsookMoon

12. Abu Ghraib: A Predictable Tragedy?J√eBnenett

conclusion Empire at the Crossroads?nMdaaahnrHiösongeuSnooMko

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Maps map1. U.S. military bases in South Korea map2. U.S. military bases in Japan and Okinawa map3-1. U.S. military bases in Germany, 1990 map3-2. U.S. Military bases in Germany, 1996

Figures figureintro.1. Aerial view of Camp Page, South Korea

figureintro.2. Baumholder military base and the surrounding community figure1.1. Busy street in camptown, north of Seoul (1965) figure1.2. Two couples in camptown, north of Seoul (1965) figure1.3. A blackmpand two women, north of Seoul (1965) figure1.4. Two blackgis and a woman, north of Seoul (1965) figure1.5. A couple outside agiclub in P’aju (1964) figure2.1. Remembering the U.S. occupation in Japan figure2.2. Japanese women and American sailors at the U.S. base in Yokosuka figure2.3. ‘‘Babysan’’: American sailors’ image of Japanese women

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