6. Fishers, Captives, and Storytellers in Taiwan’s Transnational Fishing Industry

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Intimating Current(s) of the Transpacific 1
5. Part One: Figuring the Pacific
6. 1. “This Is Paradise”: Transpacific Labor, Indigeneity, and “Undocumented” in Hawaiʻi’s Hospitality Industry 29
7. 2. Paradoxical Affect: Cross-Strait Intimacy in the Taiwan Teahouse 50
8. 3. The Arts of Emotional Automation: Empathy Machines and Asian “Victims” in Virtual Reality 76
9. Part Two: Grafting the Pacific
10. 4. Apprehending Filipino America 107
11. 5. Transpacific Archipelagic Poetics: Connecting Antibase Activism in Okinawa with Military Buildup Protests in Guåhan 133
12. 6. Fishers, Captives, and Storytellers in Taiwan’s Transnational Fishing Industry 160
13. Part Three: Unsettling the Pacific
14. 7. Transpacific Feminist Movement: Challenging Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery System 193
15. 8. Pacific Internationalism: Movements for a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific 224
16. 9. Transpacific Rupture: Neoliberal Relationalities and Economic Violence in the COVID Era 250
17. Contributors 271
18. Index 275