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In this paper we explore a moment of intersection between ÔWesternÕ and Taiwanese social science knowledge that took place in a Taiwanese seminar in 2009. Our interest is post-colonial: we treat this as an encounter between dominant and subordinate knowledge systems, and follow Helen Verran by conceiving of the bodily disconcertment experienced by the participants as an expression of metaphysical difference. We then provide three contexts for that disconcertment: one, the post-1949 story of Tai

First Author: Benson, Michaela; Munro, Rolland
Attributed to:  Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) funded by ESRC

Abstract

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Bibliographic Information

Type: Book Chapter

Book Title: Sociological Routes and Political Roots (2011)

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3813-3