Negotiating political imaginaries in Taiwan: identifications and the recasting of the nation(s) in geopolitical context
Key information
- Date
- Time
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1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
- Venue
- SOAS Main Building
- Room
- DLT
- Event type
- Seminar
About this event
The Centre of Taiwan Studies is delighted to welcome Stéphane Corcuff to give a talk as part of this year’s Centre of Taiwan Studies Summer School on political imaginaries in Taiwan, examining how changing forms of identification reshape ideas of nationhood, belonging, and geopolitical position in contemporary Taiwan.
This talk examines how political imaginaries in Taiwan are negotiated through changing forms of identification and through the recasting of the nation in geopolitical context. Rather than treating identity as fixed or singular, it explores Taiwan as a space of plural and shifting identifications, shaped by its historical entanglements with empire, colonialism, democratisation, and the continuing pressures of cross-Strait geopolitics.
Focusing on the relationship between political subjectivity, national narratives, and geopolitical uncertainty, the talk considers how Taiwan’s social and political actors imagine the island’s place in the world, and how these imaginaries continue to reshape the meanings of nation, belonging, and sovereignty in contemporary Taiwan.
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About the speaker
Stéphane Corcuff obtained his doctorate in 2000 from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris. He studies Taiwan – where he lived for long periods – from the perspective of the identity dynamics of its margins, its geopolitical history and its political recomposition. Director of the Taipei Branch of CEFC 2013 to 2017, he is a member of the editorial board of China Perspectives.
