Foreword
For a long time, Kaohsiung, along with the whole southern region of Taiwan, the so-called South, is geographically, economically, and politically in a relatively marginalized position in the national hierarchy of power. In a global context, the term South designates the southern countries colonized by the West in the early modern period. It also refers to the unequally developed Third World during the period of post WWII modernization, or the so-called ‘Global South’ that emerged from the globalization of late capitalism. Thus, the South has become synonymous with the subjugated caste, namely the sub-altern, which development programs have silenced and sacrificed, stripping the disenfranchised natives of their voice and social mobility in deference to the power that be……