Imaginative Geographies and State Reliance: Examining Taiwan's Shanyuan Bay and Miramar Resort

dc.contributor.advisorNorgaard, Kari
dc.contributor.authorChen, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-24T00:18:32Z
dc.date.available2016-02-24T00:18:32Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-23
dc.description.abstractThe development of Miramar Resort in Taitung, Taiwan has attracted much debate and attention in the past ten years. The case contains themes of rural poverty, indigenous agency, environmental protection, and economic development; therefore, any potential outcome has far-reaching and deeper implications for the local rural and indigenous residents but also for Taiwanese society’s future approaches to similar development projects which appear to pit economic development against environmental protection and indigenous rights. Through qualitative interviews, this case study examines dynamics of power and agency from an environmental justice standpoint, focusing on the themes of how landscape perception is shaped and utilized by outsiders to gain agency and how reliance of rural communities upon the state serve as a limiting force in their development. Such dynamics have shaped responses to the Miramar case and can reinforce existing inequalities if not considered critically.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/19692
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectDevelopmenten_US
dc.subjectEnvironmentalen_US
dc.subjectJusticeen_US
dc.subjectMiramaren_US
dc.subjectTaiwanen_US
dc.subjectTourismen_US
dc.titleImaginative Geographies and State Reliance: Examining Taiwan's Shanyuan Bay and Miramar Resort
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineEnvironmental Studies Program
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.S.

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