Kuan‐chi Wang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3757872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kuan‐chi Wang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kuan‐chi |
| FAMILY NAME | Wang |
| SIGNATURE | WANG K C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8688-0990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Struggling for access in the global era: The cases of edamame and rice agriculture in rural Thailand
Recent research has shown that adopting a cooperative approach in agricultural production and exchange can be an effective and sustainable method in agri-food supply chains (SCs). However, existing studies have primarily focused on treating institutions as organizational components of agricultural production and exchange, with little attention given to the power dynamics inherent in agri-food collaboration. To bridge this gap, this study has inte…
Relocating agrarian development in Asia: Food regimes, R&D programs, and the long twentieth century
This paper answers calls from the food regime scholarship for a closer analysis of the implicit rules, transitions, and regional scales of food regimes. Drawing on archival materials from the Japanese colonial administration and Sino-American agricultural cooperation, interviews with key actors, and secondary sources, this paper examines instances of agricultural knowledge production and exchange. We suggest that beyond the profound influence of …
Maritime trading networks and late imperial China's imperfect rediscovery of Southeast Asian geography, 1500–1740
This article shows that the descriptions of Southeast Asian geography contained in Ming and Qing Chinese sources that used observations collected from contemporary mariners reflect the structure of the maritime trading networks in the region. It examines several Chinese textual studies of Southeast Asia, navigational rutters, and maps, and uses geographic information system mapping to visualise and compare the extent of the authors’ and cartograp…
Taming the groundwater in rural Asia: The biopolitics of constructing groundwater‐scape
In this paper, we leverage on a case study about the governance of groundwater and the hazard of land subsidence in Yunlin, Taiwan, to address the state's political strategies of producing ‘hydro‐social territories’. Our goal is to examine how local agents and their knowledge of the socio‐technological system shape groundwater use, with particular attention on how that system has changed due to the governmentalized regulation of groundwater resou…
Reimagining the global food regimes for relational spaces
As the food regime approach was originally built on the influential world‐system analytical framework, it is worth highlighting human geographers’ efforts to transcend world‐system theory (and the food regime approach) to emphasise how different types of political‐economic processes operate relationally and differentially across regions in the capitalist world. Meanwhile, other geographical perspectives and approaches, such as “critical GIS,” hav…
Border as assemblages: Rethinking the border politics of the global food trade
Understanding the complexities of global food trade requires an overarching framework with which to address its network and territorial topologies, while avoiding the duality. In this paper, I propose the framework of "border assemblages" to supplement and rework existing approaches to food regimes and global networks, focusing on the extraterritorial reach of the global food trade. Specifically, this paper highlights the (de-/re-) territorializa…
Measuring the Reach of Asian Regional Food Regimes in the Wto Era
Although the food regime concept has become an important approach for addressing the global food trade, most of its applications have utilized qualitative methods. This article applies a quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and a more-than-qualitative relational approach, drawing from the geography literature to explore regional food regimes in Asia in the World Trade Organization (WTO) era. Employing data from the Food and Agriculture Orga…
Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia
This paper examines how the proliferation of the new Japanese food‐safety regime has influenced the edamame industries of China and Taiwan—the two largest producers of edamame beans in the world. Edamame is not only a popular cuisine in the Asia‐Pacific region, it is also responsible for the largest‐scale frozen vegetable flow in East Asia. This study addresses how the interaction between geopolitical realities and the subcontracting of edamame c…
East Asian food regimes: Agrarian warriors, edamame beans and spatial topologies of food regimes in East Asia
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning body of work thinking differently about food regimes. Drawing on the concepts of a corporate food regime and a corporate-environmental food regime, this paper highlights the constituent parts of East Asian food regimes, addressing the food regime transition that has taken place in the region. The first part of the paper addresses the role played by agrarian-scientific institutions in this transition; speci…
Who Owns “Place of People” Cinema? Glocalizing “Taiwan New Cinema” in the Neoliberal Era
The relationship between cultural–creative industries and globalization has been a significant concern of geographers for more than a decade. Geographers have argued that cultural–creative industries have become urban-based initiatives which reinforce social stratification and social inequalities. Analyzing Taiwan’s film industry, this article integrates the framework of the New International Division of Cultural Labor with the urban theory of Da…
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. By Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson. xiv and 379 pp.; bibliog., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. $24.62 (paper), isbn 0822355035
East Asian food regimes: Agrarian warriors, edamame beans and spatial topologies of food regimes in East Asia
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning body of work thinking differently about food regimes. Drawing on the concepts of a corporate food regime and a corporate-environmental food regime, this paper highlights the constituent parts of East Asian food regimes, addressing the food regime transition that has taken place in the region. The first part of the paper addresses the role played by agrarian-scientific institutions in this transition; speci…
Measuring the Reach of Asian Regional Food Regimes in the Wto Era
Although the food regime concept has become an important approach for addressing the global food trade, most of its applications have utilized qualitative methods. This article applies a quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and a more-than-qualitative relational approach, drawing from the geography literature to explore regional food regimes in Asia in the World Trade Organization (WTO) era. Employing data from the Food and Agriculture Orga…
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. By Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson. xiv and 379 pp.; bibliog., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. $24.62 (paper), isbn 0822355035
Maritime trading networks and late imperial China's imperfect rediscovery of Southeast Asian geography, 1500–1740
This article shows that the descriptions of Southeast Asian geography contained in Ming and Qing Chinese sources that used observations collected from contemporary mariners reflect the structure of the maritime trading networks in the region. It examines several Chinese textual studies of Southeast Asia, navigational rutters, and maps, and uses geographic information system mapping to visualise and compare the extent of the authors’ and cartograp…
Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia
This paper examines how the proliferation of the new Japanese food‐safety regime has influenced the edamame industries of China and Taiwan—the two largest producers of edamame beans in the world. Edamame is not only a popular cuisine in the Asia‐Pacific region, it is also responsible for the largest‐scale frozen vegetable flow in East Asia. This study addresses how the interaction between geopolitical realities and the subcontracting of edamame c…
Who Owns “Place of People” Cinema? Glocalizing “Taiwan New Cinema” in the Neoliberal Era
The relationship between cultural–creative industries and globalization has been a significant concern of geographers for more than a decade. Geographers have argued that cultural–creative industries have become urban-based initiatives which reinforce social stratification and social inequalities. Analyzing Taiwan’s film industry, this article integrates the framework of the New International Division of Cultural Labor with the urban theory of Da…
Who Owns “Place of People” Cinema? Glocalizing “Taiwan New Cinema” in the Neoliberal Era
The relationship between cultural–creative industries and globalization has been a significant concern of geographers for more than a decade. Geographers have argued that cultural–creative industries have become urban-based initiatives which reinforce social stratification and social inequalities. Analyzing Taiwan’s film industry, this article integrates the framework of the New International Division of Cultural Labor with the urban theory of Da…
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor. By Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson. xiv and 379 pp.; bibliog., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2013. $24.62 (paper), isbn 0822355035
East Asian food regimes: Agrarian warriors, edamame beans and spatial topologies of food regimes in East Asia
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning body of work thinking differently about food regimes. Drawing on the concepts of a corporate food regime and a corporate-environmental food regime, this paper highlights the constituent parts of East Asian food regimes, addressing the food regime transition that has taken place in the region. The first part of the paper addresses the role played by agrarian-scientific institutions in this transition; speci…
Food Safety and Contract Edamame: The Geopolitics of the Vegetable Trade in East Asia
This paper examines how the proliferation of the new Japanese food‐safety regime has influenced the edamame industries of China and Taiwan—the two largest producers of edamame beans in the world. Edamame is not only a popular cuisine in the Asia‐Pacific region, it is also responsible for the largest‐scale frozen vegetable flow in East Asia. This study addresses how the interaction between geopolitical realities and the subcontracting of edamame c…
Taming the groundwater in rural Asia: The biopolitics of constructing groundwater‐scape
In this paper, we leverage on a case study about the governance of groundwater and the hazard of land subsidence in Yunlin, Taiwan, to address the state's political strategies of producing ‘hydro‐social territories’. Our goal is to examine how local agents and their knowledge of the socio‐technological system shape groundwater use, with particular attention on how that system has changed due to the governmentalized regulation of groundwater resou…
Reimagining the global food regimes for relational spaces
As the food regime approach was originally built on the influential world‐system analytical framework, it is worth highlighting human geographers’ efforts to transcend world‐system theory (and the food regime approach) to emphasise how different types of political‐economic processes operate relationally and differentially across regions in the capitalist world. Meanwhile, other geographical perspectives and approaches, such as “critical GIS,” hav…
Border as assemblages: Rethinking the border politics of the global food trade
Understanding the complexities of global food trade requires an overarching framework with which to address its network and territorial topologies, while avoiding the duality. In this paper, I propose the framework of "border assemblages" to supplement and rework existing approaches to food regimes and global networks, focusing on the extraterritorial reach of the global food trade. Specifically, this paper highlights the (de-/re-) territorializa…
Measuring the Reach of Asian Regional Food Regimes in the Wto Era
Although the food regime concept has become an important approach for addressing the global food trade, most of its applications have utilized qualitative methods. This article applies a quantitative social network analysis (SNA) and a more-than-qualitative relational approach, drawing from the geography literature to explore regional food regimes in Asia in the World Trade Organization (WTO) era. Employing data from the Food and Agriculture Orga…
Maritime trading networks and late imperial China's imperfect rediscovery of Southeast Asian geography, 1500–1740
This article shows that the descriptions of Southeast Asian geography contained in Ming and Qing Chinese sources that used observations collected from contemporary mariners reflect the structure of the maritime trading networks in the region. It examines several Chinese textual studies of Southeast Asia, navigational rutters, and maps, and uses geographic information system mapping to visualise and compare the extent of the authors’ and cartograp…
Relocating agrarian development in Asia: Food regimes, R&D programs, and the long twentieth century
This paper answers calls from the food regime scholarship for a closer analysis of the implicit rules, transitions, and regional scales of food regimes. Drawing on archival materials from the Japanese colonial administration and Sino-American agricultural cooperation, interviews with key actors, and secondary sources, this paper examines instances of agricultural knowledge production and exchange. We suggest that beyond the profound influence of …
Struggling for access in the global era: The cases of edamame and rice agriculture in rural Thailand
Recent research has shown that adopting a cooperative approach in agricultural production and exchange can be an effective and sustainable method in agri-food supply chains (SCs). However, existing studies have primarily focused on treating institutions as organizational components of agricultural production and exchange, with little attention given to the power dynamics inherent in agri-food collaboration. To bridge this gap, this study has inte…
Geography (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Agriculture (6 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Economy (5 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (5 works)