CAS350H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sunflower Student Movement, Neoliberalism
Document Summary
The future that belongs to us: effective politics, neoliberalism and the sunflower movement. Taiwan in spring 2014l: the sunflower movement resisted political and economic integration with china under the framework of free trade and the world trade organization. Neoliberalism associated with worries about the future. Anxiety about chinese competition felt among taiwanese college students. Wang discusses anxieties stemming from the future in relation to neoliberalism by conceptualizing the sunflower movement as an affective-political outburst of discontents that sits uncomfortably with the future of neoliberal globalization. Students and citizen groups concerned with how economic integration with china may affect taiwan"s economy and political future occupied the parliament, asking the government to rescind the cross-strait service trade agreement with china. Condemned the kmt (taiwanese ruling party"s) negotiation with china in the absence of public supervision. Worried that agreement will facilitate greater influxes of chinese capital and migrant workers to.
