Ian Rowen
Biographic Data
| ID | 643387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Rowen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowen |
| SIGNATURE | ROWEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9674-5669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Capitalist Surrealism of Chinese Burning Man
Burning Man, the prototypical transformational event culture, has been described as “a guerrilla war against alienated spectacle and the commodification of the collective imagination.” At the same time, it has spawned spectacular efforts at the commodification of experience that span the United States, China, and Taiwan. This article follows these transnational flows and considers the circulation and contradictions of capital through a globalizin…
Simulating territory: The rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional formation
The leadership of the People’s Republic of China has crafted several creative territorialization strategies designed to consolidate the administrative control and extend the geopolitical influence of its ruling Chinese Communist Party. This article focuses one such strategy aimed at three distinct polities – Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan – by examining the bureaucratic establishment of an imaginary regional formation that spans them, and its sutur…
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China
Travel booking engines can produce, resist, and destabilise popular and state-directed geopolitical representations of a world neatly divided into national and international space. Although they present as strictly functional technical platforms, booking engines obscure and omit what is contingent and contested in the production of a destination as a bordered national territory. Due to their embedding in the webs of political representation, thes…
The transformational festival as a subversive toolbox for a transformed tourism: Lessons from Burning Man for a Covid-19 world
Examining transformational festivals can offer conceptual resources for a transformation of tourism into a more responsible and sustainable practice. By thinking together two usually distinct scholarly treatments of "transformation"—those of transformational tourism and those of transformational festivals—the COVID-19 pandemic can itself also be treated as a spatiotemporal threshold for the transformation of the travel industry. This approach can…
Crafting the Taiwan Model for Covid-19: An Exceptional State in Pandemic Territory
Taiwan was the first country to anticipate the threat of COVID-19, to send a medical team to investigate the initial outbreak in China, and to implement a comprehensive and successful public health response that avoided repeated infections or catastrophic lockdowns. Counter-intuitively, Taiwan's success was achieved in part due to its exclusion from international bodies such as the World Health Organization, which led it to adopt a highly vigilan…
Tourism studies is a geopolitical instrument: Conferences, Confucius Institutes, and ‘the Chinese Dream
Tourism scholarship can advance the multifarious geopolitical projects of state actors and aligned commercial entities. Such effects are achieved not only through tourism itself, but through the production and circulation of politically-inflected forms of knowledge. Such work is conducted by tourism scholars and allied industry and state actors. A first-person account of a 2017 tourism studies conference held at an Australian university demonstra…
Touring in heterotopia: Travel, sovereignty, and exceptional spaces in Taiwan and China
This article uses the case of Chinese tourism to Taiwan to theorize the mutual constitution of tourism mobilities and exceptional spaces of sovereignty. Human flows between China and Taiwan have proliferated despite incompatible sovereign claims. Since 2008, China has sent millions of tourists across the Taiwan Strait even as it points over a thousand missiles in the same direction. Taiwan, itself a “de facto state” and therefore an “exceptional …
Taiwan’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State
Journal Article Taiwan's Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State Get access Ian Rowen, Ian Rowen * Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Jo…
The Geopolitics of Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
This article analyzes outbound tourism from mainland China to Hong Kong and Taiwan, two territories claimed by the People's Republic of China, to unpack the geopolitics of the state and the everyday, to theorize the mutual constitution of the tourist and the nation-state, and to explore the role of tourism in new forms of protest and resistance. Based on ethnographies of tourism practices and spaces of resistance conducted between 2012 and 2015 a…
Inside Taiwan's Sunflower Movement: Twenty-Four Days in a Student-Occupied Parliament, and the Future of the Region
Say goodbye to Taiwan," wrote political scientist John Mearsheimer in a widely read article in the March-April 2014 issue of The National Interest. Threatened by China's rising economic might and abandoned by a weakening United States, one of Asia's most vibrant democracies was facing, in his "realist" analysis, an almost inevitable annexation via economic if not military force. "Time," he wrote, "is running out for the little island coveted by i…
Tourism as a territorial strategy: The case of China and Taiwan
Tourism as a territorial strategy: The case of China and Taiwan
Inside Taiwan's Sunflower Movement: Twenty-Four Days in a Student-Occupied Parliament, and the Future of the Region
Say goodbye to Taiwan," wrote political scientist John Mearsheimer in a widely read article in the March-April 2014 issue of The National Interest. Threatened by China's rising economic might and abandoned by a weakening United States, one of Asia's most vibrant democracies was facing, in his "realist" analysis, an almost inevitable annexation via economic if not military force. "Time," he wrote, "is running out for the little island coveted by i…
The Geopolitics of Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
This article analyzes outbound tourism from mainland China to Hong Kong and Taiwan, two territories claimed by the People's Republic of China, to unpack the geopolitics of the state and the everyday, to theorize the mutual constitution of the tourist and the nation-state, and to explore the role of tourism in new forms of protest and resistance. Based on ethnographies of tourism practices and spaces of resistance conducted between 2012 and 2015 a…
The transformational festival as a subversive toolbox for a transformed tourism: Lessons from Burning Man for a Covid-19 world
Examining transformational festivals can offer conceptual resources for a transformation of tourism into a more responsible and sustainable practice. By thinking together two usually distinct scholarly treatments of "transformation"—those of transformational tourism and those of transformational festivals—the COVID-19 pandemic can itself also be treated as a spatiotemporal threshold for the transformation of the travel industry. This approach can…
Tourism studies is a geopolitical instrument: Conferences, Confucius Institutes, and ‘the Chinese Dream
Tourism scholarship can advance the multifarious geopolitical projects of state actors and aligned commercial entities. Such effects are achieved not only through tourism itself, but through the production and circulation of politically-inflected forms of knowledge. Such work is conducted by tourism scholars and allied industry and state actors. A first-person account of a 2017 tourism studies conference held at an Australian university demonstra…
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China
Travel booking engines can produce, resist, and destabilise popular and state-directed geopolitical representations of a world neatly divided into national and international space. Although they present as strictly functional technical platforms, booking engines obscure and omit what is contingent and contested in the production of a destination as a bordered national territory. Due to their embedding in the webs of political representation, thes…
Taiwan’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State
Journal Article Taiwan's Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State Get access Ian Rowen, Ian Rowen * Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Jo…
Simulating territory: The rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional formation
The leadership of the People’s Republic of China has crafted several creative territorialization strategies designed to consolidate the administrative control and extend the geopolitical influence of its ruling Chinese Communist Party. This article focuses one such strategy aimed at three distinct polities – Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan – by examining the bureaucratic establishment of an imaginary regional formation that spans them, and its sutur…
Tourism as a territorial strategy: The case of China and Taiwan
Inside Taiwan's Sunflower Movement: Twenty-Four Days in a Student-Occupied Parliament, and the Future of the Region
Say goodbye to Taiwan," wrote political scientist John Mearsheimer in a widely read article in the March-April 2014 issue of The National Interest. Threatened by China's rising economic might and abandoned by a weakening United States, one of Asia's most vibrant democracies was facing, in his "realist" analysis, an almost inevitable annexation via economic if not military force. "Time," he wrote, "is running out for the little island coveted by i…
The Geopolitics of Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
This article analyzes outbound tourism from mainland China to Hong Kong and Taiwan, two territories claimed by the People's Republic of China, to unpack the geopolitics of the state and the everyday, to theorize the mutual constitution of the tourist and the nation-state, and to explore the role of tourism in new forms of protest and resistance. Based on ethnographies of tourism practices and spaces of resistance conducted between 2012 and 2015 a…
Touring in heterotopia: Travel, sovereignty, and exceptional spaces in Taiwan and China
This article uses the case of Chinese tourism to Taiwan to theorize the mutual constitution of tourism mobilities and exceptional spaces of sovereignty. Human flows between China and Taiwan have proliferated despite incompatible sovereign claims. Since 2008, China has sent millions of tourists across the Taiwan Strait even as it points over a thousand missiles in the same direction. Taiwan, itself a “de facto state” and therefore an “exceptional …
Taiwan’s Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State
Journal Article Taiwan's Truth and Reconciliation Committee: The Geopolitics of Transitional Justice in a Contested State Get access Ian Rowen, Ian Rowen * Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica, Institute of Ethnology, Taipei, Taiwan. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jamie Rowen Jamie Rowen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Jo…
Tourism studies is a geopolitical instrument: Conferences, Confucius Institutes, and ‘the Chinese Dream
Tourism scholarship can advance the multifarious geopolitical projects of state actors and aligned commercial entities. Such effects are achieved not only through tourism itself, but through the production and circulation of politically-inflected forms of knowledge. Such work is conducted by tourism scholars and allied industry and state actors. A first-person account of a 2017 tourism studies conference held at an Australian university demonstra…
The transformational festival as a subversive toolbox for a transformed tourism: Lessons from Burning Man for a Covid-19 world
Examining transformational festivals can offer conceptual resources for a transformation of tourism into a more responsible and sustainable practice. By thinking together two usually distinct scholarly treatments of "transformation"—those of transformational tourism and those of transformational festivals—the COVID-19 pandemic can itself also be treated as a spatiotemporal threshold for the transformation of the travel industry. This approach can…
Crafting the Taiwan Model for Covid-19: An Exceptional State in Pandemic Territory
Taiwan was the first country to anticipate the threat of COVID-19, to send a medical team to investigate the initial outbreak in China, and to implement a comprehensive and successful public health response that avoided repeated infections or catastrophic lockdowns. Counter-intuitively, Taiwan's success was achieved in part due to its exclusion from international bodies such as the World Health Organization, which led it to adopt a highly vigilan…
Capitalist Surrealism of Chinese Burning Man
Burning Man, the prototypical transformational event culture, has been described as “a guerrilla war against alienated spectacle and the commodification of the collective imagination.” At the same time, it has spawned spectacular efforts at the commodification of experience that span the United States, China, and Taiwan. This article follows these transnational flows and considers the circulation and contradictions of capital through a globalizin…
Simulating territory: The rise and demise of Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan as an imaginary regional formation
The leadership of the People’s Republic of China has crafted several creative territorialization strategies designed to consolidate the administrative control and extend the geopolitical influence of its ruling Chinese Communist Party. This article focuses one such strategy aimed at three distinct polities – Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan – by examining the bureaucratic establishment of an imaginary regional formation that spans them, and its sutur…
Booking Engines as Battlefields: Contesting Technology, Travel, and Territory in Taiwan and China
Travel booking engines can produce, resist, and destabilise popular and state-directed geopolitical representations of a world neatly divided into national and international space. Although they present as strictly functional technical platforms, booking engines obscure and omit what is contingent and contested in the production of a destination as a bordered national territory. Due to their embedding in the webs of political representation, thes…
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