[Commlist] New Book: La búsqueda de Okinawa. Estudios sobre el archipiélago sur de Japón / The Search for Okinawa: Studies on the Southern Archipelago of Japan

Eduardo González de la Fuente i happy to announce the recent publication 
of “La búsqueda de Okinawa. Estudios sobre el archipiélago sur de Japón” 
(2025), the first comprehensive and scholarly book on Okinawa produced 
in Spanish. It is part of the collection Biblioteca de Estudios 
Japoneses, an initiative of the Centre for East Asian Studies and 
Research at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (CERAO) and Edicions 
Bellaterra.

The eleven essays in this edited book explore a wide diversity of topics 
in Okinawan studies, ranging from social movements, military labor, and 
Hawaiian-Okinawan politics to youth culture cinema, performing arts of 
the diaspora, or village feng shui, among others. They offer insight on 
Okinawa as a varied, complex, and autonomous reality that cannot be 
confined to essentialisms or meta-narratives, nor to the limits imposed 
by the geostrategic interests of Japan, the United States and China in 
East Asia. On the one hand, this volume, a collective effort by Spanish 
American, Spanish, Okinawan, Japanese and Anglo-Saxon specialists, 
broadens the cultural background of the voices that usually participate 
and engage in the field. On the other hand, it is also an invitation to 
reconsider geopolitics as the dominant force in Okinawan studies.

The book comes in print format. In the coming weeks, it will be 
available internationally through third-party online retailers and usual 
distribution channels.

This publication is intended both for specialists and laypersons broadly 
interested in the history, society, culture and arts of the Ryukyus; as 
well as those seeking new themes and scholarly perspectives on Okinawa.

Link: https://www.bellaterra.coop/es/libros/la-busqueda-de-okinawa

The Table of contents (translated into English) is copied below. The 
original can also be found at: 
https://www.bellaterra.coop/images/Archivos/JP-Okinawa_Index.pdf

Should you find it particularly interesting or have any questions, 
please, do not hesitate to contact
Eduardo González de la Fuente at: (gonzaleze /at/ staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp)

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**Table of Contents

Preface
Michiko Tanaka, El Colegio de México

Introduction: On Okinawa and the Conjuncture of Okinawan Studies
Eduardo González de la Fuente, Kanazawa University

1. Northeast Asia from Okinawa's "Liquid" Perspective
Pedro Iacobelli Delpiano, Universidad de los Andes

2. Glocalism, Localism, and Transculturation in the Periphery: 
Historical Trajectory of Social Movements in Okinawa
Mario Malo Sanz, University of Granada

3. From Farm to Base: Postwar Economic Rehabilitation and the Emergence 
of the Base Worker in Okinawa during the U.S. Occupation
Akino Oshiro, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

4. Which side are you on? Hawaiian Okinawans, Okinawans, and the 
Restitution of Okinawa to Japanese Government in 1972
Matthew Allen, Cairns Institute - James Cook University

5. The place of Okinawa. A Political Ecology of the Uchinaanchu Struggle 
Against Military Bases
Pablo Gavirati Miyashiro, University of Buenos Aires

6. (Re)thinking the limits of Okinawa: discourse, memory and identity 
construction in the Yaeyama Islands
Bernardo Olmedo Espinoza, El Colegio de México

7. The Performing Arts of the Diaspora and the Transnational-Speaking 
Community of Okinawa
Katsuyuki Miyahira, University of the Ryukyus

8. From Inferiority Complex to Cultural Pride: “Pineapple Tours” and the 
Defense of a Distinct Identity in Okinawa's Youth Culture
Kosuke Fujiki, Hiroshima University

9. The Temporal-Spatial Crossroads of Two Worlds: Rethinking Okinawa 
from the Idea of "Island" in the Literary Work of Sakiyama Tami
Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla, Osaka University

10. Impressions of Okinawa. An Approach to the Multiple Photographic 
Views on the Ryukyu Islands
Ana Trujillo Dennis, Complutense University of Madrid

11. Rural Landscape and Feng Shui in Okinawa
Yoshio Watanabe, Tokyo Metropolitan University


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