{"product_id":"cold-war-ruins-9780822361695","title":"Cold War Ruins","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a \"transborder redress culture\" that has the potential to bring powerful challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yoneyama critically analyses the normative discourses surrounding Japanese wartime criminality and exposes how the Cold War power relations between Japan and the US continue to influence the terms in which international redress culture is enacted. The book offers a highly critical dissection of the political sensitivities of the post-Cold War era in the Japanese context. . . .\"\u003cbr\u003e   -- Teemu Laulainen * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers interested in geopolitical spheres beyond Asia Pacific should find Yoneyama’s approach to transnational cultural critique useful in exposing institutionalized forgetting in a wide variety of situations.... Given the metastasizing violence throughout the post-9\/11 world, we can only hope that the methodologies and commitment to unflinching critical analysis evident in \u003ci\u003eCold War Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e will find a wide audience.\" -- Geoffrey White * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"At a time when no single narrative can now monopolize the 'truth,' a global memory culture is coalescing around a human rights discourse that also monopolizes its own 'truth' originating in the West. Yoneyama's work is a valuable reminder that a multilayered perspective is crucial to discerning the political exploitation of such a paradigm as well.\" -- Akiko Hashimoto * Monumenta Nipponica *\u003cbr\u003e“Tracking ruins across the longue durée of the twentieth century, this impressive study explores the historical forces that have delimited the possibilities for justice for survivors of colonial and military violence in Asia and the Pacific. . . . The methodological and analytical depth of \u003ci\u003eCold War Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e provides an exemplary transnational approach to the study of historical justice, which should appeal broadly to researchers and graduate students.” -- Wendy Kozol * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eCold War Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e is an innovative and provocative work. It contextualizes and builds connections between a host of thorny issues often receiving separate treatment. . . . A book filled with new questions and fresh answers about facing the past.” -- Dayna Barnes * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCold War Ruins \u003c\/i\u003etakes readers beyond polities, geographies, histories, spaces, and times: a book of rare interdisciplinarity and range. Yoneyama has completed a work of fierce advocacy, abstract reasoning, and historical merit. . . . Yoneyama’s most important contribution is connecting post-war Occupation policies to the myth of US exceptionalism . . . The reader is left painfully aware of justice’s ephemerality, yet inspired by human resilience.\" -- James Burnham Sedgwick * Pacific Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  vii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Space of Occupation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Liminal Justice: Okinawa   43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Liberation under Siege: Japanese Women  81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Transnational Memory Borders\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness: Revisionisms  111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Contagious Justice: Asian\/America  147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Complicit Amnesia: For Transformative Knowledge  177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue  203\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  307","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406096802135,"sku":"9780822361695","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822361695.jpg?v=1730494513","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cold-war-ruins-9780822361695","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}