Dr Kaeding in Taiwan
Friday 19 October 2012
Dr Malte Philipp Kaeding is an expert in East Asian politics, specifically in the so-called Greater China region including PR China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau and Singapore. His research interests include identity politics, identity construction, election campaigning and political marketing and social movements with special emphasis on youth movements.
Dr Kaeding’s ongoing research in these areas is based on extensive fieldwork including participant observation and other ethno-graphic research methods. Since joining the School of Politics in September 2011 he has observed the Hong Kong District Council Elections 2011, the Taiwan Presidential Elections 2012 and the Hong Kong Legislative Council Elections 2012. Parts of this research have already been published in an Election Assessment Report by the National Democratic Institute (Washington).
A large number of in-depth interviews are conducted with political elites in Taiwan and Hong Kong on the issue of identity in election campaigns, as well as with leaders of youth movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau investigating pro-democracy student movements, the issue of identity in political participation and the occupy movements in Hong Kong and Taipei. Findings were presented and are accepted for international conferences such as the Association of Asian Studies, the International Studies Association and the European Association of Taiwan Studies.
He has established a long-lasting network with scholars and politicians from Asia, America, and Europe. Close research cooperation exists with scholars from Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong University, the Hong Kong Institute of Education and the University of Macau as well as several universities in Taiwan and Stanford University. Dr Kaeding is a member of the Hong Kong Transition Project, the only longitude multi-methods research project analysing socio-political changes in Hong Kong from the late 1980s to the present. He is also an Associate Fellow of the European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan (ERCCT), University of Tübingen (Germany).
