Ker-Hsuan Chien
Biographic Data
| ID | 1341196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ker-Hsuan Chien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ker-Hsuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Chien |
| SIGNATURE | CHIEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Tsing Hua University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6640-943X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Whose Calculation? The Conflicts, Compromises, and Conversions of Corporate‐Initiated Renewable Electricity Markets
This paper investigates how corporate‐led renewable electricity (RE) markets, shaped by voluntary initiatives and calculative devices, restructure energy governance. Using Taiwan's RE market as a case study and drawing on marketisation theory, it reveals how multinational corporations, in collaboration with state actors, embed power asymmetries into climate governance. These asymmetries marginalise smaller firms and local stakeholders, reinforcin…
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices
This paper examines the making and remaking of Taiwan's banana export market in response to the devastation caused by an outbreak of a novel infectious plant disease, Fusarium wilt disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cubense) . Taiwan was the world's fourth-largest exporter of bananas in the 1960s before the collapse of the market in the early 1970s. While scholars have drawn on actor-network theory-inspired performativity app…
An indigestible feast? A multi-scalar approach to the energy transition in Taiwan
Pacing for Renewable Energy Development: The Developmental State in Taiwan’s Offshore Wind Power
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, a green economy has been promoted as a way to foster sustainable development and eradicate poverty at the same time. Many states have become more active in investing in renewable technologies and allocating capital to renewable energy development. With the rapid growth of the green economy in East Asian countries (e.g., China, South Korea, and Taiwan), however, there is a strong state presence in green econ…
Mapping the subaquatic animals in the Aquatocene: Offshore wind power, the materialities of the sea and animal soundscapes
Polarizing informality: Processual thinking, materiality and the emerging middle-class informality in Taipei
In recent debates, it has been argued that urban informality is a way of living. It is the consequence of people negotiating with building regulations, limited resources and their living environments. However, as some researchers have pointed out before, informality is not just the experience of subalterns; in some cases, it has become the shared experience of people across different classes. This paper therefore employs processual thinking and m…
Entrepreneurialising urban informality: Transforming governance of informal settlements in Taipei
Informality is a common urban experience among cities in the Global South. Given the thin social welfare and weak regulations, the urban subaltern has therefore had to improvise housing and employment in order to survive. Urban informality is hence conceived as a negotiation process through which spatial value is produced. However, under the current wave of urban entrepreneurialisation, informality is often deemed to be inefficient and unproducti…
Entrepreneurialising urban informality: Transforming governance of informal settlements in Taipei
Informality is a common urban experience among cities in the Global South. Given the thin social welfare and weak regulations, the urban subaltern has therefore had to improvise housing and employment in order to survive. Urban informality is hence conceived as a negotiation process through which spatial value is produced. However, under the current wave of urban entrepreneurialisation, informality is often deemed to be inefficient and unproducti…
Mapping the subaquatic animals in the Aquatocene: Offshore wind power, the materialities of the sea and animal soundscapes
Pacing for Renewable Energy Development: The Developmental State in Taiwan’s Offshore Wind Power
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, a green economy has been promoted as a way to foster sustainable development and eradicate poverty at the same time. Many states have become more active in investing in renewable technologies and allocating capital to renewable energy development. With the rapid growth of the green economy in East Asian countries (e.g., China, South Korea, and Taiwan), however, there is a strong state presence in green econ…
An indigestible feast? A multi-scalar approach to the energy transition in Taiwan
Polarizing informality: Processual thinking, materiality and the emerging middle-class informality in Taipei
In recent debates, it has been argued that urban informality is a way of living. It is the consequence of people negotiating with building regulations, limited resources and their living environments. However, as some researchers have pointed out before, informality is not just the experience of subalterns; in some cases, it has become the shared experience of people across different classes. This paper therefore employs processual thinking and m…
Entrepreneurialising urban informality: Transforming governance of informal settlements in Taipei
Informality is a common urban experience among cities in the Global South. Given the thin social welfare and weak regulations, the urban subaltern has therefore had to improvise housing and employment in order to survive. Urban informality is hence conceived as a negotiation process through which spatial value is produced. However, under the current wave of urban entrepreneurialisation, informality is often deemed to be inefficient and unproducti…
Polarizing informality: Processual thinking, materiality and the emerging middle-class informality in Taipei
In recent debates, it has been argued that urban informality is a way of living. It is the consequence of people negotiating with building regulations, limited resources and their living environments. However, as some researchers have pointed out before, informality is not just the experience of subalterns; in some cases, it has become the shared experience of people across different classes. This paper therefore employs processual thinking and m…
Pacing for Renewable Energy Development: The Developmental State in Taiwan’s Offshore Wind Power
Since the 2008 global financial crisis, a green economy has been promoted as a way to foster sustainable development and eradicate poverty at the same time. Many states have become more active in investing in renewable technologies and allocating capital to renewable energy development. With the rapid growth of the green economy in East Asian countries (e.g., China, South Korea, and Taiwan), however, there is a strong state presence in green econ…
Mapping the subaquatic animals in the Aquatocene: Offshore wind power, the materialities of the sea and animal soundscapes
An indigestible feast? A multi-scalar approach to the energy transition in Taiwan
Governing pathological markets: Microbes, banana export markets, and speculative farming practices
This paper examines the making and remaking of Taiwan's banana export market in response to the devastation caused by an outbreak of a novel infectious plant disease, Fusarium wilt disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cubense) . Taiwan was the world's fourth-largest exporter of bananas in the 1960s before the collapse of the market in the early 1970s. While scholars have drawn on actor-network theory-inspired performativity app…
In Whose Calculation? The Conflicts, Compromises, and Conversions of Corporate‐Initiated Renewable Electricity Markets
This paper investigates how corporate‐led renewable electricity (RE) markets, shaped by voluntary initiatives and calculative devices, restructure energy governance. Using Taiwan's RE market as a case study and drawing on marketisation theory, it reveals how multinational corporations, in collaboration with state actors, embed power asymmetries into climate governance. These asymmetries marginalise smaller firms and local stakeholders, reinforcin…
Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Renewable energy (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economic system (2 works)