Qualitative analysis reveals cross-border network formation in Okinawan civil society, highlighting how anti-military movements redefine regional connectivity beyond insular borders.
Key Points
To examine how anti-military base activism in Okinawa constructs translocal and grassroots regional networks, challenging conventional geographical and political notions of island isolation.
Conducted a political and cultural critique engaging Indigenous and Pacific studies frameworks, specifically relational island concepts.
Analyzed historical and contemporary discourses of Okinawan grassroots regionalism and anti-base solidarity movements.
Demonstrates that Okinawan anti-base activism extends beyond local resistance to create interconnected translocal coalitions across the Asia-Pacific region.
Identifies grassroots regionalism as a critical conceptual framework that reframes islands not as isolated territories, but as dynamic nodes in global demilitarization efforts.