Mitzi Carter

Bio

My research investigates how people living in militarized spaces like Okinawa, make sense of their lives and how they come to understand local, national and global life in the borderlands.  Through long-term, multi-sited fieldwork, I analyze patterns in how the concepts of flow, commercialized forms of hybridity, and “third space” ideologies operate to mitigate some disciplining effects of state power for various actors. I pay close attention to when and how the various concepts of security consolidate and what precipitates the fragmentation of those imaginaries for US Americans and Okinawans living in Okinawa, Japan.

I am also the Director of the Global Indigenous Forum at FIU.  

Areas of Expertise

Anthropology, East Asian Studies 

Degrees

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2016

BA, Duke University, 1996