Taiwan's COVID-19 Experience (eBook, PDF)

Governance, Governmentality, and the Global Pandemic
Redaktion: M. Lo, Ming-Cheng; Liu, Michael Shiyung; Tsai, Yu-Yueh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emphasizing the themes of governance and governmentality, it moves the foci of the discussion from COVID policies to the social and political orders undergirding the statecraft of pandemic management. Furthermore, it analyzes how the pandemic fostered a historical moment at which new forms of governance and governmentality were beginning to take root. It also situates Taiwan's precarious nationhood in its global context, thereby challenging a prevalent methodological nationalism - the assumption that the nation is a natural unit of analysis whose borders are more or less unquestioned - and contributing to decolonizing Western theories with perspectives from the Global South.

Presenting rich original materials on the legal and public debates, individual reflections, and grassroots campaigns during COVID, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Taiwan's governance and social health policy, as well as medical anthropology and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040085677
• Artikelnr.: 70558809

Autorenporträt

Ming-Cheng M. Lo is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, USA. Lo's research addresses the cultures of democracy in East Asia, as well as the sense-making processes regarding illnesses, disasters, and cultural traumas. Yu-Yueh Tsai is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, working in the fields of medical sociology, science, technology, and society (STS), and race and ethnicity studies. Michael Shiyung Liu is Distinguish Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Professor of History affiliated to the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research interests include Japanese colonial medicine, East Asian environmental history, and modern history of public health in East Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Pandemic Governance and Governmentality in Taiwan Part 1:
Historical and Contemporary Contexts 1. Dynamics of Quarantine Control to
Epidemic Precaution in Taiwan: A historical review 2. Policies Tackling the
COVID-19 Pandemic: Reflections on Public Health Governance and Public
Health Ethics based on Taiwan's Initial Responses Part 2: Liberal Democracy
and Pandemic Management 3. Leveraging the Power of Digital Technology for
Coping with the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan 4. Zero-Covid, Digital Pandemic
Control Measures and the Making of the Public Health State in Taiwan 5.
Digital Pandemic Measures in the Age of COVID-19: Taiwan's Challenges with
Regard to Privacy and Personal Data Protection 6. Digital pandemic
governance in Taiwan Part 3: Self-Governance and Individual Citizens 7. To
Stay or to Leave? A Study of Noncompliance of COVID-19 Quarantine
Regulations in Taiwan 8. Negotiating the Risk-Stigma Assemblage: Quarantine
Experiences of Returnees to Taiwan during the COVID-19 Pandemic 9.
Comparing the governance of the pandemic between vaccine-free and free
vaccine strategies: thick governmentality in Taiwan Part 4: Nationhood,
Nationalism, and Global Health 10. The Return of NRICM101 to Taiwan: The
Contributions of an Herbal Formula to Both COVID-19 Treatment and
Nationalism 11. Which is More Toxic- a Virus or Hostility? Discourse and
Sentiment Analysis of the Chinese Government and Media's Statements on
Taiwan During the COVID-19 Period 12. Health for All? COVID-19, WHO and
Taiwan's Exceptional Governance