This book began as a year-long ethnography of a school in Taiwan in 1991 then evolved more into a historical sociology of national formation and its cultural mindset. Cultural nationalism is a widely debated but poorly understood process. Contrary to prevailing perceptions, the Cold War may have given way to a more progressive open society, but the politicization of ethnicity hardened a more deeply entrenched cultural frame of mind. Instead of liberating an indigenous reality, Taiwanese consciousness has ironically polarized the political dead ends of reunification and independence. In the final analysis, the ethnography can serve as a paradigmatic case study for critical cultural studies. There are clear ramifications also for a comparative study of the cultural politics of other Chinese speaking or Asian societies and their histories.
Author(s): Allen Chun
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 295
City: Singapore
Preface
Contents
1 Ethnography as Cultural Geography
References
2 The Spaces of Nationalist Culture in Taiwan
Ideological Discourse and Cultural Identity in “Nationalist” Taiwan
“The Three Principles” as Unifying Discourse (Sanminzhuyi Tongyi Zhongguo)
“The New Life Movement” in the State’s Project of Moral Regulation
Family, School and Militarization in “The Making of Moral Persons”
Notes
References
3 Education and the Sociology of the Normal
The Schooling of Society: Pedagogy in the Disciplinary Order of Things
Three Principles Ideology as Educational Policy and Theoretical Discourse
Nationalist Education as Ontological Process and Political Socialization
Textbook Narrative as Socially Symbolic Act in the Construction of “History”
Notes
References
4 School Routines in Time and Space
Chinese Modern: Form, Hierarchy and Containment as Spatial Governance
The Curricular Calendar: Temporal Rhythms and Social Structuration
Everyday Etiquette as Modality of Acculturation
Socializing Routines in the Conduct of Life Histories
Notes
References
5 Socialization in the Longer View
Everyday Administration in the Vertical Integration of Institutional Power
The Disciplinary Production of Activities, Texts and Behaviors
The School as a Node of Societal Education
“Moral Training”: Institutional Extensions in the Crafting of Citizens
Notes
References
6 Nationalist Ideology in the Politics of Normalization
Indigenization, Multiculturalism and the “New” Nationalism
“Knowing Taiwan” in the Global Ecumene
The Civilizing Process as a Mode of Cultural Colonialism
Learning to De-School: A Post-National Resistance
Notes
References
7 Anthropology as Writing Power
Societal Totalities as Fictive Moment in the Normalization of Theory
The State as Passive Subject and Active Agent in Political Legitimation
The Government of Life in the Culture of Institutional Practices
School as Habitus, or Ethnographic Description as Cultural Critique
Notes
References
Bibliography
Index
