Time as a Defense of the Environment: A Fight Against McDonaldized Forms of Progress
This chapter presents a philosophical reflection on resistance movements throughout Okinawa. It considers how time, as measured by technological advances in timekeeping and its resulting capitalist calculations of the social world, distorts human values a
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DANIEL BROUDY
O K I N AWA U N DE R OCCU PAT I O N MCDONALDIZATION AND RESISTANCE TO NEOLIBERAL PROPAGANDA
Okinawa Under Occupation
Miyume Tanji • Daniel Broudy
Okinawa Under Occupation McDonaldization and Resistance to Neoliberal Propaganda
Miyume Tanji Australian National University Canberra, Australia
Daniel Broudy Okinawa Christian University Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan
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To people everywhere struggling for truth and dignity
Preface
For a book about cultural conditioning and militarism in Okinawa produced by two people with significantly different life experiences, we reckoned that questions about our own positions, relative to our subjects of study, would likely arise. To address this self-perception, we begin with a reference to David Takacs’ query as a departure point for talk of how two people on divergent paths arrived at the same point on a journey toward richer self-awareness and appreciation of how larger social and political forces have come to shape Okinawa and ourselves. In his article, “How Does Positionality Bias Your Epistemology,” Takacs asks, “How does who you are shape what you know?”1 The seeds of this book were first positioned in 2014, in the fertile ground of free dialogues between a foreign teacher and a local graduate student on topics for a study in Japanese English education as a v
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