The Subjects Who Freely Hear and Speak Out

Foucault and Okinawa’s Postwar History as a Reference Point

Abstract

The voices of those involved are valuable not only for individual relief but also for making the values of society meaningful to people in general. In order to consider the activity of “hearing to voices,” the focus of this paper is on the “subjects” whose voices are created with Foucault as a guiding thread. In the act of “listening to voices,” power relations are latent, and the voices produced change depending on the situation in which the subject is placed. It is important that the listener is free from the system and conscious of the liberation of the spirit. Based on experience with public thirdparty organizations, the author also summarized the role of the government in a system of listening. Although support for “listening to voices” is at the forefront, what is import-ant is how the subject is formed. In order to understand the mechanism of subject formation, the main focus of this paper, I confirm that our voices are under the influence of the capitalist mentality of individual diligent effort, using the case of political mobilization in the postwar history of Okinawa. Valuable research in the UK has shown that the voices of the people concerned are those of difficulties that have struck the world of life, and that with-out changes in society, things will only deteriorate, and that the social and cultural structures we consider normal are the source of their difficulties. There is a complex and intricate strategic situation within the subject. We have gradually opened up areas of resistance within the subject. Voices are both created and silenced by the social context.