Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond

Hsin-I Cheng

doi:10.5771/9781498581516

Summary

Citizenship is traditionally viewed as a legal status to be possessed. Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship proposes the concept of relational citizenship to articulate the value-laden, interactive nature of belongingness. Hsin-I Cheng examines the role of relationality which produces and is a product of localized emotions. Cheng attends to particular histories and global trajectories embedded within uneven power relations. By focusing on Taiwan, a non-Western society with a tradition to adeptly attune to local experiences and those from various global influences, relational citizenship highlights the measures used to define and encourage interactions with newcomers. This book shows the multilayered communicative processes in which relations are gradually created, challenged, merged, disrupted, repaired, and solidified. Cheng further argues that this concept is not bound to nation-state geographic boundaries as relationality bleeds through national borders. Relational citizenship has the potential to move beyond the East vs. West epistemology to examine peoples’ lived realities wherein the sense of belonging is discursively accomplished, viscerally experienced, and publicly performed.

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Copyright year: 2020
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8150-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8151-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 224
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Taiwan as a Transnational Multicultural Space before the 1894 Sino–Japanese War No access
2. Germinating Taiwan’s Subjectivity under Japanese Colonization No access
3. Intergroup Relations and National Consciousness on the Island after 1945 No access
4. Citizenship Making in Contemporary Taiwan No access
1. Fortifying National Identity through Relationalities of Xinzhumin (New Residents) No access
2. Communicating Global/Regional Identity: The NSP No access
3. “Slow Media” in a Learning Society: Communicating People-Centered Diplomacy No access
4. Relational Citizenship as Border Enactment for Temporary Migrant Workers No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Relational Citizenship as the Center of Ascribed and Avowed Membership No access
2. Relational Citizenship as an Index for Interaction No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. Space of Transgression: Taipei Main Station No access
2. Space of Interdependence: Taichung ASEAN Square as “Our Second Home in Taiwan” No access
3. Space of Identification: Taoyuan New Immigrant Culture Hall and Im/migration Day Celebrations in Taitung and Kaohsiung No access
4. A Space of Im/mobility: Wan Wan Building in Taipei No access
5. A Space of Enunciation: On (Social) Media No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. The Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Citizenship No access
2. Relationality, Citizenship, and “Chain Migration” No access
3. Relationality in Americans All—Immigrants All No access
4. Relationship as Liability? No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 159 - 174
References No access Pages 175 - 212
Index No access Pages 213 - 222
About the Author No access Pages 223 - 224