東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Border Assemblages: The Political Ec...

Wang, Kuan-Chi.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade./
Author:	Wang, Kuan-Chi.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	204 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International80-05A.
Subject:	Asian Studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10844099
ISBN:	9780438693319

Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade.
Wang, Kuan-Chi.

Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 204 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2018.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

In my dissertation, I study the spatio-temporal variegation and transnational circulation of vegetable commodities using the case of edamame beans (the largest frozen vegetable sector in Asia). My dissertation shows that food production and trade in East Asia have fundamentally changed over the past several decades. Rapid development has lifted the region out of subsistence and into middle-class and luxury consumption. As a result, East Asia is quickly becoming the center of the global food economy. The development of edamame industries is central to explaining the transformation of the agriculture and food industries across the region. I employ a mixed methods approach that includes participant-observation, semi-structured interviews with 40 edamame farmers and entrepreneurs, and GIS mapping, alongside Social Network Analysis (SNA). In my analysis, I coin the concept of "border assemblages," arguing that edamame trade incorporates network and state-territorial characteristics. Building on this approach, my research bridges two social science sub-fields that scholars have often applied empirically but not theoretically: international politics and regional agrarian development. Three novel findings emerge from this research: First, my research adds to the literature on Asian colonialism by showing how the Japanese Empire and the post-World War Two (WWII) U.S. Cold War regime territorialized East Asia to develop a regulatory assemblage of regional agricultural production and trade. Second, after the 1980s, a new type of food regime emerged in East Asia following the introduction of new World Trade Organization food safety regulations that reterritorialized the food production networks in Asia. My research conceptualizes the emergence of the new food regimes in an East Asian context according to the political economy and ecology of edamame trade among Taiwan, Japan, and China. Third, another strand of my research contributes to the geopolitical understanding of the edamame trade with regard to food scares and contract farming. I extend the definition of contract farming to encompass international regulatory bodies and argue that trade agreements and international food laws, such as the Codex Alimentarius, have significantly shaped the agrarian landscape in Asia.

ISBN: 9780438693319Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.
Subjects--Index Terms:

East Asia

Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade.
LDR:03707nmm a2200433 4500 001 2282428
005 20211001103416.5
008 220723s2018 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9780438693319
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI10844099
035 $a (MiAaPQ)oregon:12298
035 $a AAI10844099
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Wang, Kuan-Chi. $3 3561231
245 1 0 $a Border Assemblages: The Political Economy of Asian Regional Vegetable Trade.
260 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, $c 2018
300 $a 204 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 80-05, Section: A.
500 $a Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
500 $a Advisor: Buck, Daniel.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oregon, 2018.
506 $a This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.
506 $a This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a In my dissertation, I study the spatio-temporal variegation and transnational circulation of vegetable commodities using the case of edamame beans (the largest frozen vegetable sector in Asia). My dissertation shows that food production and trade in East Asia have fundamentally changed over the past several decades. Rapid development has lifted the region out of subsistence and into middle-class and luxury consumption. As a result, East Asia is quickly becoming the center of the global food economy. The development of edamame industries is central to explaining the transformation of the agriculture and food industries across the region. I employ a mixed methods approach that includes participant-observation, semi-structured interviews with 40 edamame farmers and entrepreneurs, and GIS mapping, alongside Social Network Analysis (SNA). In my analysis, I coin the concept of "border assemblages," arguing that edamame trade incorporates network and state-territorial characteristics. Building on this approach, my research bridges two social science sub-fields that scholars have often applied empirically but not theoretically: international politics and regional agrarian development. Three novel findings emerge from this research: First, my research adds to the literature on Asian colonialism by showing how the Japanese Empire and the post-World War Two (WWII) U.S. Cold War regime territorialized East Asia to develop a regulatory assemblage of regional agricultural production and trade. Second, after the 1980s, a new type of food regime emerged in East Asia following the introduction of new World Trade Organization food safety regulations that reterritorialized the food production networks in Asia. My research conceptualizes the emergence of the new food regimes in an East Asian context according to the political economy and ecology of edamame trade among Taiwan, Japan, and China. Third, another strand of my research contributes to the geopolitical understanding of the edamame trade with regard to food scares and contract farming. I extend the definition of contract farming to encompass international regulatory bodies and argue that trade agreements and international food laws, such as the Codex Alimentarius, have significantly shaped the agrarian landscape in Asia.
590 $a School code: 0171.
650 4 $a Asian Studies. $3 1669375
650 4 $a Geography. $3 524010
650 4 $a Economic history. $2 fast $3 548503
653 $a East Asia
653 $a Food
653 $a Food regime
653 $a Geopolitics
653 $a Political economy
653 $a Vegetable
690 $a 0342
690 $a 0366
690 $a 0509
710 2 $a University of Oregon. $b Department of Geography. $3 3172931
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 80-05A.
790 $a 0171
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2018
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10844099