Photo Essay: Formosa Plastics Museum, Taoyuan
This is a collaborative photo essay about the Formosa Plastics Group Museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Alliances Across Borders, An Honors Thesis
I am posting this honors thesis in the Formosa Plastics Global Archive to promote accessibility of my findings to study participants.
Pödelwitz got future
JonnyGruenschPödelwitz is an activist initiative in the central german coal district, which is located in a village which was supposed to be evacuated for a planned expansion of a neighboring coal mine. After successfully resisting this expansion, the activists now promote social-ecological transformation in the village and the wider region. I will collaborate with them as part of my project in C-urge to study the role of justice in such transformations. Thereby we hope to arrive at an understanding of justice that is not opposed to urgent societal transformation in light of climate change, but a means of achieving this.
Mini Toy Building Set of Formosa Plastics Group Museum
Mini, Lego-like building set depicting the Formosa Plastics Group Museum in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Purchased from the museum souvenir shop and assembled by Zoe Friese.
Formosa Plastics Violations and Fines in Texas
These posters were printed for a public hearing held in US congress, organized by the International Monitoring Formosa Alliance.
FPG's Global Reach: Corporate Maps
Global map of Formosa Plastics activity sites, highlighting China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the United States as primary locations of facilities.
Petrochemical Display: Indigenous Traditional Weaving Statue
Artificial display of an indigenous person doing traditional weaving of fabrics in the Formosa Plastics Museum, located in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
CIEL Report: Formosa Plastics as a Case Study
zoefrieseCIEL's report is the first I have encountered to attempt to give a comprehensive analysis of Formosa Plastics and its impact on communities. The report breaks down the corporation's story into several sections: its origins and convoluted corporate structure, its primary products and common health risks of production, documented legal violations, and environmental justice threats. Together, the 100-page document covers significant ground, yet is readable in under an hour. It includes key statistics that are understandable without extensive background. I believe this report, as a mode of communication, finds an outstanding balance between accessible language, analysis, brevity, and detail. Activists and researchers alike should strive for the same qualities in their knowledge-sharing strategies.
A traditional Chinese summary of the StoryMaps webpage associated with my thesis research findings.