Civility and its discontents
Subway Etiquette, Civic Values, and Political Subjectivity in Global Taiwan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7921059 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anru Lee (City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 476-492 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mobilities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-0101 • E-ISSN: 1745-011X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17450101.2021.1919492 |
| OpenAlex | W3159353923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 24 |
The Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) System is instrumental to both the reconstruction of a collective identity and the development of a renewed political subjectivity, with which the Taiwanese establish themselves as autonomous, law-abiding citizens vis-á-vis a historically repressive state on the one hand, and enlightened, worthy members in the league of the world’s urban civilizations on the other. The rescaling of the world economy from the scale of nations to one with an increasingly glocalized configuration has enabled the possibility of scale jumping that allows Taipei the city to stand in for Taiwan the nation, thus helping Taiwan break through its isolation and increase its international visibility. Under this circumstance, the civility displayed on the Taipei MRT takes on the significance of an act of performativity. It has come to signify the Taiwanese people’s belonging, in the dual sense of both ‘be-ing’ in a social complex with fellow citizens and ‘longing’ for an identification of oneself in a particular historical present. However, the continuing controversies regarding MRT guidelines also indicate that the rights and responsibilities are not always understood to be equal among individual citizens. The process of civic subject formation is contentious and ongoing
Civility · Epistemology · Etiquette · Incivility · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Social change and modernity
Introduction
International Express
Grassroots Globalization and the Research Imagination
City boosterism and place-making with light rail transit
Interactions with infrastructure as windows into social worlds
The birth of the urban passenger
Hierarchies of happiness
Subways as a Space of Cultural Intimacy
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Making Tracks
Motion and Emotion
Cultures of Commuting
Message in a Metro
Segmenting the city
The Ideological Foundations of the New Life Movement
Spaces of Vulnerability
Performativity and Belonging
We Are Visioning It
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |