"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 analyses 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 andsocial health policy, as well as medical anthropology and sociology"--
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.
This book explores and develops the ongoing conversation about how Taiwan navigated through the COVID-19 pandemic.
Arvustused
This is a valuable collection of essays offering a critical analysis of the complex and often conflicted intersection of geopolitics, public health, and crisis management in the context of a global pandemic. The collection of essays provides deep, multi-disciplinary insight on the delicate and often contentious relationship of strict government control designed to protect and provide care on the one hand and the socio-political dynamics and restrictive consequences of biopower on the other.
Joseph Alter, Professor and Director of the Asian Studies Center, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
This remarkable collection clearly proves that we must put Taiwan at the center of the study of global epidemic control. The twelve theoretically informed chapters probe the intersection of democracy, surveillance, resistance, and health in startlingly fresh and sophisticated ways. Taiwans COVID-19 Experience will be a must-read for academics, medical professionals, and policy-makers alike.
Ruth Rogaski, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, USA
In the rapidly growing scholarship on global COVID-19 experiences, this book distinguishes itself with its wealth of empirical analysis and broad historical and theoretical perspectives.
Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Sociology and Communication and Director of Center on Digital Culture and Society, University of Pennsylvania, USA
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 Taiwans 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: Taiwans 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
Medias Statements on Taiwan During the COVID-19 Period
12. Health for All?
COVID-19, WHO and Taiwans Exceptional Governance
Ming-Cheng M. Lo is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, USA. Los 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.
