Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps, Kovner Sarah

Автор: Sarah Kovner
Название: Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
ISBN: 0804788634 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804788632
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility of certain others, particularly panpan—streetwalkers—who were objects of their desire.

Occupying Power shows how intimate histories and international relations are interconnected in ways scholars have only begun to explore. Sex workers who catered to servicemen were integral to the postwar economic recovery, yet they were nonetheless blamed for increases in venereal disease and charged with diluting the Japanese race by producing mixed-race offspring. In 1956, Japan passed its first national law against prostitution, which produced an unanticipated effect. By ending a centuries-old tradition of sex work regulation, it made sex workers less visible and more vulnerable. This probing history reveals an important but underexplored aspect of the Japanese occupation and its effect on gender and society. It shifts the terms of debate on a number of controversies, including Japan's history of forced sexual slavery, rape accusations against U.S. servicemen, opposition to U.S. overseas bases, and sexual trafficking.

Автор: Kovner Sarah
Название: Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan
ISBN: 0804776911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804776912
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility of certain others, particularly panpan—streetwalkers—who were objects of their desire.

Occupying Power shows how intimate histories and international relations are interconnected in ways scholars have only begun to explore. Sex workers who catered to servicemen were integral to the postwar economic recovery, yet they were nonetheless blamed for increases in venereal disease and charged with diluting the Japanese race by producing mixed-race offspring. In 1956, Japan passed its first national law against prostitution, which produced an unanticipated effect. By ending a centuries-old tradition of sex work regulation, it made sex workers less visible and more vulnerable. This probing history reveals an important but underexplored aspect of the Japanese occupation and its effect on gender and society. It shifts the terms of debate on a number of controversies, including Japan's history of forced sexual slavery, rape accusations against U.S. servicemen, opposition to U.S. overseas bases, and sexual trafficking.

Автор: Kovner Alex
Название: The Jurga Manifesto: A Democracy Built on Sortition
ISBN: 1788360265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788360265
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 27450.00 T
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People are fed up with politicians. We want them to act like athletes in an honest sport, competing fairly according to rules not of their own devising. Instead, we see politicians shamelessly manipulating the rules to suit their own interests. Existing proposals for deliberative democracy place citizen panels at the discretion of these very politicians, making them little more than weapons of political warfare.

The Jurga Manifesto places deliberative minipublics at the heart of democracy, in the form of the jurga: a body of randomly chosen citizens empowered to pass judgement on both laws and candidates for office. Political parties are replaced by proposing agencies whose only role is to serve up policy options to the jurga. Stripped of any ability to manipulate process, politicians compete on substance, and can only influence government by finding favour with an institution of unparalleled democratic legitimacy: the jurga.