https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/410140
Title: | Apples in action: Territoriality and land use politics of mountain agriculture in Taiwan | Authors: | Hung P.-Y. Hsiao H.-T. |
Keywords: | assemblage; Kuomintang veterans; mountain agriculture; Taiwan; territory | Issue Date: | 2018 | Journal Volume: | 59 | Journal Issue: | 3 | Start page/Pages: | 349-367 | Source: | Asia Pacific Viewpoint | Abstract: | This essay outlines the symbolic and material transformation of mountain agriculture in Taiwan by tracing the historical trajectories of temperate fruit production, and of apple growing in particular. Specifically, we look at the area of Lishan, a major production centre for apples and other temperate fruits in Taiwan's Central Mountain Range in order to explore the relationship between the mountain agriculture and the politics of territorialisation. Focusing on the post-war era, we argue that the development of mountain agriculture in Taiwan, and upland fruit growing in particular, has operated as a ‘more-than-human political technology’. The territory of Lishan is not just a passive geographical space, but engaged in a process of becoming, which re-makes the mountain areas of Taiwan into ‘apple zones’ both spatially and socially. The spatial dimension centres on processes of political territorialisation, economic deterritorialisation and combined reterritorialisations whereby apple plantations have transformed the landscape from one focused on strategic politics to one embedded within development and market frameworks which entail their own particular forms of politics. The social dimensions are centred on the politics of forging connections among different elements circulating through the mountain areas of Taiwan, including apples, soldiers, transport infrastructures and agricultural policies. © 2018 Victoria University of Wellington and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd |
URI: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85056485420&doi=10.1111%2fapv.12194&partnerID=40&md5=a24627dd470ea1c0644ff4db99980f94 https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/410140 |
DOI: | 10.1111/apv.12194 | SDG/Keyword: | agricultural policy; agricultural production; fruit production; land use change; mountain environment; orchard; political integration; territoriality; China; Lishan Mountain; Shanxi; Taiwan; Malus x domestica |
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