Postcolonial Biotech: Taiwanese Conundrums and Subimperial Desires

Postcolonial Biotech: Taiwanese Conundrums and Subimperial Desires

Wheremost accounts of biotech in Taiwan—indeed, globally—focus on its economic potential and its potential to heal various ills, a postcolonial and subimperial framing insists on attention to often underexamined aspects, for example, how biotech practices reflect specific nationalist desires and rely on forms of exploitation. A postcolonial and subimperial framing insists on the inclusion of ot...

From Postcolonial to Subimperial Formations of Medicine: Superregional Perspectives from Taiwan and Korea

In the twentieth century, Taiwan and Korea shared similar experiences of colonial governance: from being situated on the periphery of the Qing geocultural orbit and the early frontiers of the Japanese Empire to becoming a Cold War protectorate of US neoimperialism. This special issue draws on theoretically robust and empirically weighted approaches to examine this shared but contested past. Tho...

Audiomobiles, Sculptures and Conundrums

Roberto Gerhard was a pioneer of electronic music in England creating a number of substantial concert, theatre and radio works from as early as 1954. Gerhard’s electronic music is one of the richest repositories for understanding the development of the composer’s late compositional technique. Apart from the Symphony no.3, ‘Collages’, none of Gerhard’s electronic music is published. This paper w...

Foot and mouth policy conundrums

Britain's outbreak of foot and mouth disease highlights how effective control measures have been to prevent a major outbreak for more than 30 years given the distribution and highly infectious nature of the virus, reports Nigel Williams Although Europe and North and Central America are generally free of foot and mouth disease, it remains endemic and occurs frequently in many countries in Africa...

Globalization and Postcolonial States