Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond

Relational Citizenship

AvHsin-I Cheng

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Transnational Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-12-10
Mått:162 x 241 x 21 mm
Vikt:576 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Transnational Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
Antal sidor:252
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781498581509
Utmärkelser:Winner of 2022 Book Award 2022

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Hsin-I Cheng is associate professor of communication studies at Middle Tennessee State University.

Recensioner i media

The independent nation-state of Taiwan, formerly known as Formosa, has been colonized over the past centuries by the Dutch, the Spanish, various Qing-era Chinese warlords, and imperial Japan. And throughout it all, Taiwan has welcomed immigrants, travelers, adventurers, and refugees, rendering it one of most multicultural places on the planet, a living laboratory of mixed languages, intermingled cultures, crisscrossing markets, international media flows, and political intrigue—it is the poster child of hybridity in an age of globalization. Hsin-i Cheng offers her insights into how citizens create senses of belonging amidst this miracle of complexity and possibility. Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship will therefore appeal to students and scholars of intercultural and international communication, globalization studies, and debates about community and citizenship in an age of contested nationalisms.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Introduction: Multiculturalism, Communication, and Critical Citizenship StudiesChapter 1: Taiwan—Hybridity of Intercultural PracticesChapter 2: Relational Citizenship as a Communication Strategy for National Identity and Border ManagementChapter 3: Citizens as Relational PartnersChapter 4: Embodied Relational Citizenship in the Public: Place, Visibility, and EmotionsChapter 5: Relational Citizenship Beyond Taiwan–the United StatesConclusion: Relational Framework in Communicating About CitizenshipBibliography