Okinawa after Area (Studies), or Writing Okinawa in the Settler Colonial University

In this talk, Prof. Wendy Matsumura (UCSD, History) examines the task that lies before researchers and teachers who engage Okinawa Studies from within the settler colonial university. Centering Okinawan peoples’ anti-imperialist struggles across the wartime divide, the talk illuminates methods, frameworks, and practices that can disrupt how the settler colonial, neoliberal university consumes and weaponizes area studies and its practitioners.