Base Towns: Local contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan, by Claudia Junghyun Kim

Mason, Ra (2025) Base Towns: Local contestation of the U.S. Military in Korea and Japan, by Claudia Junghyun Kim. Social Science Japan Journal, 28 (2). ISSN 1369-1465

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Abstract

Critical discussion of American overseas military basing is an overcrowded topic area. However, in Base Towns, Claudia Junghyun Kim makes a decisive intervention into the field—through six diverse chapters—to develop a theoretically grounded and empirically persuasive discussion of US basing in Korea and Japan. The book provides a valuable reinterpretation of how complex local agency acts to substantively affect the framing, governance, and statuses of Washington’s extensive network of bases in both countries. In so doing, Kim advances the consistent argument that ‘contentious base politics, despite the prevalent scepticism, deserve attention as a social force shaping domestic and international politics’ (4). Moreover, unlike competing texts, this single volume skilfully constructs the argument through three novel frames that focus on the subnational: status quo disruption, movement framing, and local elite allies (9–12).

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	military bases,okinawa,korea,us military
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for Japanese Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2025 09:41
Last Modified:	15 Jul 2025 09:41
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99924
DOI:	10.1093/ssjj/jyaf024

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