From social visibility to political invisibility : the school in nationalist Taiwan as fulcrum for an evolving world ethos / Allen Chun.
2023
DS799.847
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Title
From social visibility to political invisibility : the school in nationalist Taiwan as fulcrum for an evolving world ethos / Allen Chun.
ISBN
9789819920181 (electronic bk.)
9819920183 (electronic bk.)
9789819920174
9819920175
9819920183 (electronic bk.)
9789819920174
9819920175
Published
Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 291 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-99-2018-1 doi
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DS799.847
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.540951249
Summary
This book began as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1991 then evolved more into a historical sociology of national formation and its cultural mindset. Cultural nationalism is a widely debated but poorly understood process. Contrary to prevailing perceptions, the Cold War may have given way to a more progressive open society, but the politicization of ethnicity hardened a more deeply entrenched cultural frame of mind. Instead of liberating an indigenous reality, Taiwanese consciousness has ironically polarized the political dead ends of reunification and independence. In the final analysis, the ethnography can serve as a paradigmatic case study for critical cultural studies. There are clear ramifications also for a comparative study of the cultural politics of other Chinese speaking or Asian societies and their histories. Allen Chun is Chair Professor in the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Program, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. His interests involve cultural theory, nation-state formation, globalization and identity. His research focuses on Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. His recent books include Forget Chineseness: On the Geopolitics of Cultural Identification (2017) and On the Geopragmatics of Anthropological Identification (2019).
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Ethnography as Cultural Geography
Chapter Two: The Spaces of Nationalist Culture in Taiwan
Chapter Three: Education and the Sociology of the Normal
Chapter Four: School Routines in Time and Space
Chapter Five: Socialization in the Longer View
Chapter Six: Nationalist Ideology in the Politics of Normalization
Chapter Seven: Anthropology as Writing Power.
Chapter Two: The Spaces of Nationalist Culture in Taiwan
Chapter Three: Education and the Sociology of the Normal
Chapter Four: School Routines in Time and Space
Chapter Five: Socialization in the Longer View
Chapter Six: Nationalist Ideology in the Politics of Normalization
Chapter Seven: Anthropology as Writing Power.