Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Islands of Inquiry
Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series
ISBN: 978-1-041-29717-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book presents a critical intervention into the evolving field of Taiwan Studies. It offers a kaleidoscopic view of how Taiwan can be engaged across a variety of global research agendas—from coloniality and migration to digital sovereignty, memory politics, and queer futurity.
Exemplifying the field's growing methodological and thematic richness and drawing from disciplines such as anthropology, political science, gender studies, and history, this book frames Taiwan not as a static geopolitical object but as a generative site of epistemic, cultural, and political possibility. The book demonstrates how Taiwan's complexity speaks directly to global debates on democracy, indigeneity, ecological crisis, and the politics of knowledge.
Combining theoretical sophistication with empirical depth, this book serves as both a scholarly milestone and a pedagogical toolkit for rethinking the field's boundaries. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and practitioners engaged in Taiwan Studies, East Asian Studies, postcolonial theory, global studies, and comparative area studies.
Zielgruppe
Academic and Postgraduate
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1- Introduction: Reconfiguring Taiwan studies through methodological innovation Part I – Environmental Imaginaries and the Anthropocene Chapter 2- Maintenance in time of disappearance: Survivance of the clouded leopard in the Paiwan spiritual landscape Chapter 3- Deep or shallow understanding of Taiwan’s energy transitions? Methodological reflections with qualitative comparative analysis Part II – From Decolonisation to Intersectionality: Rethinking Indigenous Research Practices Chapter 4- The intersectionality framework: an innovative approach for Taiwan Studies Chapter 5- Applying decolonising methodologies in a research project on Paiwan women artists and their work Chapter 6- Indigenous female resilience on the forced displacement: A case study of Ciulaku, Southern Taiwan Part III – Seeing Power: Politics, Culture, and the Public Eye Chapter 7- Framing anti-elite and crisis populist messages in elections: A time-series comparison of parties’ communicative patterns on Facebook in national elections Chapter 8- Evaluating Taiwanese government decision-making and institutional change in film policy through new institutional economics Part IV – Reconstructing Taiwan’s Past: Methodologies and Sources Chapter 9- A case study of intellectual biography in Taiwan Studies Kuan-Wei Wu Chapter 10- Research reports, perspectives and a new approach of historical studies on diary texts in Taiwan Yu-Yin Hsu Chapter 11- The use of Transkribus and other AI in the transcription and analysis of historical documents relating to Taiwanese history Jamie Blake Knox Chapter 12- What was counted and what counts? Statistics from the period of Japanese colonial rule as sources for the socioeconomic history of Taiwan Christine Moll-Murata and Pao-wen Huang Part V – Imitator to Improver to Innovator: Shifting Perspectives, Shifting Identities Chapter 13- From imitator to innovator: Taiwan’s ego-driven role trajectory Josie-Marie Perkuhn Chapter 14- Tiger and dragon searching for phoenix feathers and unicorn horns: Imagining and mapping plausible trajectories of Cross-strait relations through integration theories and thought experiments Frédéric Krumbein Chapter 15- ‘Stripping bare’: Materiality and a new approach to Taiwanese foreign policy Dana S. Trif
