11 6월 CAUS 브라운백 세미나 From Globalizing Taipei to Learning Amsterdam: Referencing as a politicizing strategy for urban development in Taiwan
서울대 아시아도시사회센터(CAUS)에서 연사로 Yi-Ling Chen 교수님을 모시고 브라운백 세미나를 진행합니다.
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This paper deals with changing urban referencing in Taipei City after democratization by applying theories of policy mobility and using the research method of participatory observation to “follow policy changes” for three decades. In the 1990s, Globalizing Taipei was a new urban development strategy for the city that was undergoing economic restructuring and new democratic governance. The new goal transformed the logic of urban planning towards neoliberal urbanism. Housing speculation was intensified by pro-developer urban policies. In 2010, serious problems of housing affordability mobilized the social housing movement, inspired by Amsterdam, where 40% of the total housing stock is social housing. This paper argues that the geopolitical situation of Taiwan is a crucial factor in policy mobility in addition to the economic crisis. The desire to be global is always the underlying force for choosing a new learning model. This case study of Taiwan’s urban development after democratization contributes to the literature on urban developmentalism. Finally, the paper concludes that the mobility process is selective, so Amsterdam serves as a mere inspiration. Neoliberalism hinders both Dutch and Taiwanese social housing policies to achieve housing justice.
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Yi-Ling Chen is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics, Public Affairs, and International Studies at the University of Wyoming, USA. She has participated in the housing movement in Taiwan since the Snail without Shell movement in 1989. Her research is on neoliberalism, urban social movement, gender, housing, and urban development in Taiwan. Her publications are mostly about housing and urban development in Taiwan from political-economic and feminist perspectives. She edited a book in 2019, Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia (The Contemporary City) by Palgrave Macmillan. Her recent research compares housing policies, policy mobility, and financialization in East Asia, the USA, and the Netherlands. Yi-Ling Chen was the Taiwan Chair at Gent University in Belgium in 2020 and a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia, University of Amsterdam, National University of Singapore, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Seoul Institute, Academic Sinica in Taiwan, and Tubingen University in Germany.