博士 / 淡江大學 / 國際事務與戰略研究所博士班 / 101 / After the end of the Cold War, the ideological confrontation of two blocks disappears. With the increasing of international community interaction, culture and identity characteristics of IRT have been devoted much attention, that contribute to the study of cross-strait relations, bringing about the approach of "anarchic culture" and "strategic culture". Both "anarchic culture" and "strategic culture", however, have interpreted cross-strait relations with the conception of culture they defined. These two conceptions have shaped the geopolitical imagination form the point of view of the rulers or elite class and popular culture which imply geopolitical imagination and identity has always been ignored. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore how Taiwanese people shape the geopolitical imagination according to "geopolitical code or storyline", reflecting the national ideal and social identity. By means of the conception of popular geopolitics culture, author hope to understand how the public in Taiwan construct the societal reality and how the geopolitical imagination that contain in the collective memory can be transformed into our-group identity of reality.
In this dissertation, different types of popular culture (popular movies, faith stories, folk troupes) have been selected as texts to analyze the discourses which imply geopolitical imagination and identity about cross-strait relations, spreading by different kinds of media. As to discourse analysis, this dissertation focus on intertextuality. The masses shape their geopolitical imagination and identity into a way of watching the world and the imagination of cross-strait relations by discourses that contain in popular culture’s texts. From this point of view, the public having different geopolitical imagination derive from "geopolitical identity" and "geopolitical strategy". The former is question about "enemies vs. friends" or "others vs. our-group"; the latter is question about that identity brings about values and interests. Perhaps different geopolitical imagination conflict each other, and they cannot be integrated into a specific time. Just because of this reason, people living in Taiwan pursue their own values and interests within the respective geopolitical imagination and that makes they live in harmony. Of course, the geopolitical culture that emphasizes popular culture may not fully change the existing thinking of political elites, but it does influence the directions and contents of geopolitics. Although it needs much pertinent efforts to change the main courses of geopolitics and world politics, it can indeed complement and strengthen the cultural approach of the current cross-strait relations research and it also provides a different critical geopolitical discourse.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101TKU05322007 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Hua-kai Chen, 陳華凱 |
| Contributors | 莫大華 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 208 |
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