Yi-Ting Chang

From geo- to astropolitics: How Taiwan constructs vertical territory within the global satellite network

Yi-Ting Chang obtained her BA from National Taiwan Normal University (graduate with honour) and MSc from National Taiwan University (with an awarded thesis) before starting her DPhil in Oxford. Her broad research interests lie in critical geopolitics and science and technology studies (STS). She has been working on vertical geo-politics, focusing especially on power, body, materiality, and infrastructure in the three-dimensional world. Her DPhil thesis entitled "From geo- to astropolitics: How Taiwan constructs vertical territory within the global satellite network" aims to investigate Taiwan's outer space history and politics against the backdrop of the ongoing cross-strait tension. Her PhD is fully funded by Clarendon Fund Scholarship with joint partnerships with St. John's College and the Taiwan-Oxford Scholarship.

Awards and Fundings

• Clarendon Fund Scholarship, University of Oxford (2022-)
• Oxford-Taiwan Graduate Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2022-)
• Excellent Master's Thesis Award, Taiwan STS Association (2022)
• Outstanding Master's Thesis Award, National Taiwan University (2020)

• Chang, Y.-T. and Chien, S.-S. (2023) Wind-Human Resonance in a Polluted City: The Case of Dalinpu in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 1-18.
• Chien, S.-S. and Chang, Y.-T. (2021) Explosion, subterranean infrastructure and the elemental of earth in the contemporary city: The case of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Geoforum, 127, 424-434.
• Chang, Y.-T. and Chien, S.-S. (2021) Fluid Volume Thinking and Politics of Air/Wind: Case of Dalinpu, Taiwan. Taiwan Journal of Anthropology, 19(2): 147-188. (in Mandarin)

Conference Presentations

• Paper Presentation, Taiwan Young Space Professionals Programme, Kaohsiung, 2022. Title: Building up "Space for Marine Asia" for Resource, Governance, and Climate Change.
• Paper Presentation, Taiwan STS Association Annual Conference, Taipei, 2020
  Title: From Air Pollution to Village Displacement: The Atmospheric and Oceanic Politics of Polluted Geographies. (Session: The competition for risk, knowledge and governance).
• Paper Presentation, Geoforum Workshop (Designing, Digging, Excavating, and Living: Subterranean Geopolitics), Singapore, 2019
  Title: Explosion, Subterranean Infrastructure and Elemental of Earth in Contemporary City: Case of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
• Paper Presentation, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London, 2019
  Title: Oxidation in Relation to Urban Bio- and Geo- Politics: When Elements and Bodies Encounter in a Petrochemical City (Session: Chemical Kinships).