Focusing On and Standing By the ‘Time of Everyday Life’: Three Kinds of Time Flowing in Henoko

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  • 不可視化される「生活の時間」によりそう――辺野古をめぐる3つの時間――
  • フカシカ サレル 「 セイカツ ノ ジカン 」 ニ ヨリ ソウ : ヘンノコ オ メグル 3ツ ノ ジカン

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<p>In Henoko, Okinawa, Japan, a planned replacement site for the U. S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, it can be said there concurrently flows three different scopes of time experience: ‘time of politics’, ‘time of social movement’ and ‘time of everyday life’. As Henoko has become a site of politics, the flow of politics and social movement occupies the majority of the flow of time, which essentially means the time of everyday life has become invisible.</p><p>This paper aims to highlight the structure that causes such invisibility by focusing on the Futenma Replacement Facility (F. R. F.) as a military facility, so as to emphasize the importance of the visibility of the ‘time of everyday life’ and to present what is revealed by its visibility.</p><p>For the local residents of Henoko, the ‘time of everyday life’ has been formed by their historical connection with the U. S. military base, Camp Schwab, therefore they are reluctant to advocate the total removal of all U. S. military bases from Okinawa. They officially express conditional acceptance of F. R. F. in view of their future ‘time of everyday life’, although they would certainly be pleased if F. R. F. was not located at Henoko. This delicate stance towards Henoko is not understood by those people coming from outside to join the opposition movements who do not share the local residents’ ‘time of everyday life’. Such lack of understanding has developed into a conflict between the local citizens of Henoko and outsiders so that the local people have finally requested that people from outside withdraw from the opposition movement. However, for the residents of Henoko, completely removing the opposition movement would eliminate the option of opposing F. R. F. To avoid such limitation of options, visualizing and sharing the ‘time of everyday life’ will be inevitable in order to develop resistance against the ‘time of politics’ into a resistance against governmentality.</p>

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