André Beckershoff
André Beckershoff is currently Research Fellow at the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT) at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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International Political Economy, Social Movements, Taiwan, Cross-Strait Relations
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Articles
The KMT-CCP Forum: Securing Consent for Cross-Strait Rapprochement
Published: Jan 04, 2014 by Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
Authors: André Beckershoff
The recent rapprochement between China and Taiwan cannot be understood if our conceptual apparatus is unable to cope with the distinctive new quality of cross-Strait relations. A critical framework provides a transnational account of cross-Strait dynamics. An analysis of the KMT–CCP Forum through the lens of the neo-Gramscian notion of hegemony sheds light on the Forum’s strategies, mechanisms, practices and instruments to secure consent for cross-Strait rapprochement.
Seizing the Transnational – Ideology, Hegemony, and the Doubling of China-Taiwan Relations
Published: Jan 04, 2014 by Spectrum - Journal of Global Studies
Authors: André Beckershoff
The condition of possibility of the recent rapprochement between China and Taiwan lies in the de-politicisation of economic relations, which in turn is facilitated by a doubling of Cross-Strait relations into apparently separate spheres of civil society and politics. What drives this increasing separation, in what terms can we describe this process, and what are its consequences?