Book Announcement "Cultivating membership in Taiwan and beyond: Relational citizenship"

Cultivating membership in Taiwan and beyond: Relational citizenship by Hsin-I Cheng (2021) https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498581516/Cultivating-Membership-in-Taiwan-and-Beyond-Relational-Citizenship

Citizenship is traditionally viewed as a legal status to be possessed. Cultivating Membership in Taiwan and Beyond: Relational Citizenship proposes the concept of relational citizenship to articulate the value-laden, interactive nature of belongingness. Hsin-I Cheng examines the role of relationality which produces and is a product of localized emotions. Cheng attends to particular histories and global trajectories embedded within uneven power relations. By focusing on Taiwan, a non-Western society with a tradition to adeptly attune to local experiences and those from various global influences, relational citizenship highlights the measures used to define and encourage interactions with newcomers. This book shows the multilayered communicative processes in which relations are gradually created, challenged, merged, disrupted, repaired, and solidified. Relational citizenship can move beyond the East vs. West epistemology to examine peoples’ lived realities wherein the sense of belonging is discursively accomplished, viscerally experienced, and publicly performed. The book can be ordered at 30% off the list price using the code LEX30AUTH21 at rowman.com