Waiting for the Cool Moon Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire
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Biografisk notat
Wendy Matsumura is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, and author of The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community, also published by Duke University Press.Waiting for the Cool Moon Anti-imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Japan's Empire
“<i>Waiting for the Cool Moon</i> is rigorous, invigorating, and consequential for how we read, see, study, research, and understand both the history of Japan in the interwar years and history more generally. This hugely impressive book is a magnificent achievement.” - Rebecca E. Karl, author of (China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History) “<i>Waiting for the Cool Moon</i> is a fierce, passionate book, one that is as suited to these times as it is to the period it explores. Wendy Matsumura brings a powerful theoretical apparatus to bear: the Marxian analysis of her earlier work is transformed by her intense engagement with the theoretical and comparative work of Black and Indigenous women scholars. The effects of this encounter are profound. By attending to revolutionary practice and acknowledging the pain and sadness of absence, Matsumura locates the urgent ethical commitment of a radical historian. An outstanding critical history.” - Christopher T. Nelson, author of (Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa) "In the scope, method, and the author’s critical reflection on her positionality as a US researcher, <i>Waiting for the Cool Moon</i> reaches out to a wider audience than Japanese studies and offers a blueprint of historiography aimed toward collective liberation." - Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito (Japan Forum)
Introduction 1
1. Empire and Oikonomia 17
2. Enclosure and the Community of the Commons 37
3. Buraku Women against Tripled Sufferings 60
4. Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household 83
5. Interimperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer’s Global Circuit 108
6. Empire Through the Prism of Phosphate 134
7. Water Struggles in a Colonial City 161
Conclusion. Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding 185
Notes 193
Bibliography 241
Index 261
“<i>Waiting for the Cool Moon</i> is rigorous, invigorating, and consequential for how we read, see, study, research, and understand both the history of Japan in the interwar years and history more generally. This hugely impressive book is a magnificent achievement.” - Rebecca E. Karl, author of (China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History) “<i>Waiting for the Cool Moon</i> is a fierce, passionate book, one that is as suited to these times as it is to the period it explores. Wendy Matsumura brings a powerful theoretical apparatus to bear: the Marxian analysis of her earlier work is transformed by her intense engagement with the theoretical and comparative work of Black and Indigenous women scholars. The effects of this encounter are profound. By attending to revolutionary practice and acknowledging the pain and sadness of absence, Matsumura locates the urgent ethical commitment of a radical historian. An outstanding critical history.” - Christopher T. Nelson, author of (Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa) "In the scope, method, and the author’s critical reflection on her positionality as a US researcher, <i>Waiting for the Cool Moon</i> reaches out to a wider audience than Japanese studies and offers a blueprint of historiography aimed toward collective liberation." - Nozomi Nakaganeku Saito (Japan Forum)
Introduction 1
1. Empire and Oikonomia 17
2. Enclosure and the Community of the Commons 37
3. Buraku Women against Tripled Sufferings 60
4. Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household 83
5. Interimperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer’s Global Circuit 108
6. Empire Through the Prism of Phosphate 134
7. Water Struggles in a Colonial City 161
Conclusion. Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding 185
Notes 193
Bibliography 241
Index 261