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
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Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)
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ESRC
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Bibliographic Information
Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Sociological Routes and Political Roots (2011)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3813-3