Mire Koikari
Biographic Data
| ID | 244767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mire Koikari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mire |
| FAMILY NAME | Koikari |
| SIGNATURE | KOIKARI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1767-0671 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Race, Nutrition and Empire: Domestic Reform and Japanese Immigrants in Territorial‐Era Hawaiʻi
The article examines the rise of domestic science in territorial‐era Hawaiʻi. At the dawn of the twentieth century, as the Pacific became a new frontier, ‘manifest domesticity’ emerged as a prominent dynamic, and home economics became linked to empire‐building. At the centre of this phenomenon was Carey D. Miller, a self‐proclaimed ‘pioneer’ whose pursuit of nutritional research and reform was inseparable from American expansionism. The Pacific w…
A Conversation about Two Occupations
This conversation of two of the most renowned scholars of Cold War historiography and occupation studies, Susan Carruthers (University of Warwick) and Mire Koikari (University of Hawai‘i) with Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg and guest editor of this issue), took place virtually on 29 January 2021 across multiple time zones. It has been transcribed, edited, and abridged for this volume. The exchange sheds light on important topics in the larger…
Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post–3.11 Japan
The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March 11, 2011 – has ushered in a new era of cultural production dominated by discussions on safety and security, risk and vulnerability, and recovery and refortification. Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan re-frames post-disaster national reconstruction as a social project imbued with dynamics of gender, race, and empir…
Re-masculinizing the nation: Gender, disaster, and the politics of national resilience in post-3.11 Japan
Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquakes, Japan has entered into a new phase of cultural production where discourses on risks, dangers, and calamities mobilize varieties of individuals and institutions for the purpose of maintaining the nation's safety and security. In this phase, masculinity plays a salient role, leading to a series of discourses and practices that have to do with manhood and nationhood. Drawing on insights from Masculini…
Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity and Transnationalism in East Asia
In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women's grassroots activities involving homes and homemaking played a pivotal role in reshaping the contours of US and Japanese imperialisms. Drawing on insights from studies of gender, Asia, America and postcolonialism, Koikari analyzes how the occupation sparked domestic education movements in…
Taeko Shibahara. Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II
Training Women for Disasters: Gender, Crisis Management (Kiki Kanri) and Post-3.11 Nationalism in Japan
On September 2, 2011, Takarajimasha, a publisher known for its popular magazines, printed an oversized PR piece in the leading national newspapers in Japan. Splashed across the pages of the Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Sankei, Nihon Keizai, and Nikkan Gendai was the 1945 black-and-white photograph of General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, emerging from his plane, Bataan, at Atsugi Airport outside Tokyo to commence hi…
The World is Our Campus’: Michigan State University and Cold‐War Home Economics in US‐occupied Okinawa, 1945–1972 1
Since the rape of a twelve‐year‐old girl by three American marines in Okinawa in 1995, a trope of masculinised domination and feminised subjugation has shaped many feminist discussions of US‐Okinawa relations. However, post‐war US domination in Okinawa has entailed far more complex dynamics involving gender and nation. This article examines domestic reformism that flourished in US‐occupied Okinawa where a group of home economists and home demonst…
Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945 - 1952
On August 15, 1945, World War II came to an end with Japan's unconditional surrender. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), flew from the Philippines to Japan with a mission to occupy and demilitarize the defeated nation. The place and manner of MacArthur's arrival seemed to signal the victor's absolute confidence and unquestioned authority over its vanquished enemy. MacArthur – the embodiment of U.S. military…
Japanese Eyes, American Heart: Politics of Race, Nation, and Masculinity in Japanese American Veterans’ WWII Narratives
Japanese American veterans' narratives of World War II (WWII) constitute a dynamic discursive site where heterogeneous and contradictory understandings of masculinity, military service, and national allegiance are articulated. While loyalty and patriotism often stand out as dominant themes in their narratives, their retelling of wartime military service by no means provides a uniform picture of heroic masculinity and patriotic nationalism. Having…
Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
Mire Koikari explores the “extraordinarily universalist and expansionist” mission articulated by the supreme commander for the Allied Powers, the U.S. Army general Douglas Mac-Arthur, during the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945–1952, as the mission sought to “liberate” Japanese women (p. 2). Koikari's complex analysis problematizes all aspects of the mission: who defined it, who benefited from it, and who contested it. Focusing on the intersectio…
Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952
Exporting Democracy: American Women, "Feminist Reforms," and Politics of Imperialism in the U.S. Occupaton of Japan, 1945-1952
General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (scap) in occupied Japan, expressed a firm conviction in American democracy and its adaptability to all humanity in his 1947 Fourth of July message. 1 Following the end of World War II, MacArthur flew from the Philippines to Japan in order to take on a mission to reform "an alien race of spiritual growth stunted by long tenure under the physical, mental and cultural strictures…
Negotiating Feminist Survival: Gender, Race, and Power in Academe
This article examines the role “in-house” victim advocates have played in the struggle to curb violence against women on college campuses. It uses the case study model to place the discussion about feminist strategies in higher education within a larger, historical context of second-wave feminist movements and negotiations between grassroots protest movements and institutional powers. The article analyzes both the new opportunities that the campu…
Rethinking Gender and Power in the US Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952
Rethinking Gender and Power in the US Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952
Re-masculinizing the nation: Gender, disaster, and the politics of national resilience in post-3.11 Japan
Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquakes, Japan has entered into a new phase of cultural production where discourses on risks, dangers, and calamities mobilize varieties of individuals and institutions for the purpose of maintaining the nation's safety and security. In this phase, masculinity plays a salient role, leading to a series of discourses and practices that have to do with manhood and nationhood. Drawing on insights from Masculini…
The World is Our Campus’: Michigan State University and Cold‐War Home Economics in US‐occupied Okinawa, 1945–1972 1
Since the rape of a twelve‐year‐old girl by three American marines in Okinawa in 1995, a trope of masculinised domination and feminised subjugation has shaped many feminist discussions of US‐Okinawa relations. However, post‐war US domination in Okinawa has entailed far more complex dynamics involving gender and nation. This article examines domestic reformism that flourished in US‐occupied Okinawa where a group of home economists and home demonst…
Japanese Eyes, American Heart: Politics of Race, Nation, and Masculinity in Japanese American Veterans’ WWII Narratives
Japanese American veterans' narratives of World War II (WWII) constitute a dynamic discursive site where heterogeneous and contradictory understandings of masculinity, military service, and national allegiance are articulated. While loyalty and patriotism often stand out as dominant themes in their narratives, their retelling of wartime military service by no means provides a uniform picture of heroic masculinity and patriotic nationalism. Having…
Rethinking Gender and Power in the US Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952
Negotiating Feminist Survival: Gender, Race, and Power in Academe
This article examines the role “in-house” victim advocates have played in the struggle to curb violence against women on college campuses. It uses the case study model to place the discussion about feminist strategies in higher education within a larger, historical context of second-wave feminist movements and negotiations between grassroots protest movements and institutional powers. The article analyzes both the new opportunities that the campu…
Exporting Democracy: American Women, "Feminist Reforms," and Politics of Imperialism in the U.S. Occupaton of Japan, 1945-1952
General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (scap) in occupied Japan, expressed a firm conviction in American democracy and its adaptability to all humanity in his 1947 Fourth of July message. 1 Following the end of World War II, MacArthur flew from the Philippines to Japan in order to take on a mission to reform "an alien race of spiritual growth stunted by long tenure under the physical, mental and cultural strictures…
Gender, Power, and U.S. Imperialism: The Occupation of Japan, 1945–1952
Pedagogy of Democracy: Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan
Mire Koikari explores the “extraordinarily universalist and expansionist” mission articulated by the supreme commander for the Allied Powers, the U.S. Army general Douglas Mac-Arthur, during the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945–1952, as the mission sought to “liberate” Japanese women (p. 2). Koikari's complex analysis problematizes all aspects of the mission: who defined it, who benefited from it, and who contested it. Focusing on the intersectio…
Japanese Eyes, American Heart: Politics of Race, Nation, and Masculinity in Japanese American Veterans’ WWII Narratives
Japanese American veterans' narratives of World War II (WWII) constitute a dynamic discursive site where heterogeneous and contradictory understandings of masculinity, military service, and national allegiance are articulated. While loyalty and patriotism often stand out as dominant themes in their narratives, their retelling of wartime military service by no means provides a uniform picture of heroic masculinity and patriotic nationalism. Having…
The World is Our Campus’: Michigan State University and Cold‐War Home Economics in US‐occupied Okinawa, 1945–1972 1
Since the rape of a twelve‐year‐old girl by three American marines in Okinawa in 1995, a trope of masculinised domination and feminised subjugation has shaped many feminist discussions of US‐Okinawa relations. However, post‐war US domination in Okinawa has entailed far more complex dynamics involving gender and nation. This article examines domestic reformism that flourished in US‐occupied Okinawa where a group of home economists and home demonst…
Feminism and the Cold War in the U.S. Occupation of Japan, 1945 - 1952
On August 15, 1945, World War II came to an end with Japan's unconditional surrender. General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP), flew from the Philippines to Japan with a mission to occupy and demilitarize the defeated nation. The place and manner of MacArthur's arrival seemed to signal the victor's absolute confidence and unquestioned authority over its vanquished enemy. MacArthur – the embodiment of U.S. military…
Training Women for Disasters: Gender, Crisis Management (Kiki Kanri) and Post-3.11 Nationalism in Japan
On September 2, 2011, Takarajimasha, a publisher known for its popular magazines, printed an oversized PR piece in the leading national newspapers in Japan. Splashed across the pages of the Asahi, Yomiuri, Mainichi, Sankei, Nihon Keizai, and Nikkan Gendai was the 1945 black-and-white photograph of General Douglas MacArthur, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, emerging from his plane, Bataan, at Atsugi Airport outside Tokyo to commence hi…
Cold War Encounters in US-Occupied Okinawa: Women, Militarized Domesticity and Transnationalism in East Asia
In this innovative and engaging study, Mire Koikari recasts the US occupation of Okinawa as a startling example of Cold War cultural interaction in which women's grassroots activities involving homes and homemaking played a pivotal role in reshaping the contours of US and Japanese imperialisms. Drawing on insights from studies of gender, Asia, America and postcolonialism, Koikari analyzes how the occupation sparked domestic education movements in…
Taeko Shibahara. Japanese Women and the Transnational Feminist Movement before World War II
Re-masculinizing the nation: Gender, disaster, and the politics of national resilience in post-3.11 Japan
Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquakes, Japan has entered into a new phase of cultural production where discourses on risks, dangers, and calamities mobilize varieties of individuals and institutions for the purpose of maintaining the nation's safety and security. In this phase, masculinity plays a salient role, leading to a series of discourses and practices that have to do with manhood and nationhood. Drawing on insights from Masculini…
Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post–3.11 Japan
The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March 11, 2011 – has ushered in a new era of cultural production dominated by discussions on safety and security, risk and vulnerability, and recovery and refortification. Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan re-frames post-disaster national reconstruction as a social project imbued with dynamics of gender, race, and empir…
A Conversation about Two Occupations
This conversation of two of the most renowned scholars of Cold War historiography and occupation studies, Susan Carruthers (University of Warwick) and Mire Koikari (University of Hawai‘i) with Heike Paul (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg and guest editor of this issue), took place virtually on 29 January 2021 across multiple time zones. It has been transcribed, edited, and abridged for this volume. The exchange sheds light on important topics in the larger…
Race, Nutrition and Empire: Domestic Reform and Japanese Immigrants in Territorial‐Era Hawaiʻi
The article examines the rise of domestic science in territorial‐era Hawaiʻi. At the dawn of the twentieth century, as the Pacific became a new frontier, ‘manifest domesticity’ emerged as a prominent dynamic, and home economics became linked to empire‐building. At the centre of this phenomenon was Carey D. Miller, a self‐proclaimed ‘pioneer’ whose pursuit of nutritional research and reform was inseparable from American expansionism. The Pacific w…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Law (11 works) · History (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Japanese History and Culture (6 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works) · Economic history (4 works)