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Over the past half century, how we conceive of design research has changed significantly, as indeed have the boundaries of influence of the design profession. This paper takes an entirely personal perspective of the author and will discuss the change in the nature of design research through the lens of a career in design education and, especially, in the author's endeavours to develop design research as a respected discipline working with and alongside, science, social sciences and the arts and humanities. It will look at the social, economic and political drivers that have influenced design research in the UK but also globally, and at where this has taken design, in terms of research both within and beyond the design profession.

Despite the current proliferation of research on slums, there remains an impasse in our ability to represent and understand informal residential settlements. This is largely due to the complexity and malleability of slums in the context of globalized flows of people, neoliberal economic and political restructuring, and processes of social marginalization and conflict. This thesis thus addresses the intellectual, representational, and political complexities associated with the global proliferation of slums so as to facilitate more just and egalitarian societies. As such, the aim of the study is to identify and examine emergent factors that contribute to social injustice and inequality in the context of ever transforming spatial, social, economic, and political processes. To do so, it examines the emergence, organization, and socio-spatial morphology of Ganesh Murthy Nagar, a squatter settlement in Mumbai, India. Conceptually, the framework guiding my study is based on Deleuzoguattarian thought and draws upon assemblage theory in relation to contemporary research in critical Urban Studies. My methodology is oriented towards thick empirical description and addresses historical, ethnographic, and developmental perspectives. This approach contributes to three specific objectives of the thesis: to identify the functional components of the settlement-assemblage and trace their emergence and evolution in time; to map the constitutive associations inherent in the ordering of these components in and beyond the settlement; and to determine the components' constraining and enabling effects on other components in the assemblage. My findings suggest that State policies promoting participatory governance have triggered the emergence of social hierarchies and the centralization of power within the settlement. In collusion with other endogenous social networks and State actors, a defensible space of dominance has been established that continues to assemble power from diverse relationships with developmental partners. Rather than advancing the positive potential of interventions, weaknesses with slum policies and their implementation have contributed to a settlement with unequal and unjust relations, a fragmented populace, and pervasive feelings of fear.

Intro -- TAIWAN: ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES -- TAIWAN: ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL POLITICS IN TAIWAN -- LIMITED PLURALIST AUTHORITARIAN PARTY SYSTEM (1945-1986) -- FROM LOCAL TO NATIONAL LEVEL -- PLURALIST PARTY SYSTEM WITH ONE DOMINANT PARTY (1986-2000) -- THE RISE AND DECAY OF MINOR PARTIES -- POLARIZED PLURALIST PARTY SYSTEM -- DEVELOPMENTS LEADING TO A POLARIZED PLURALIST PARTY SYSTEM AND SOCIETY -- DEFINING POPULISM -- POPULISM IN TAIWAN -- THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, POPULISM, AND THE LIEN-SONG REBELLION -- ADOLF HITLER AND CHEN SHUI-BIAN: THE CLIMAX OF POPULIST RHETORIC -- THE AFTERMATH: THE LIEN-SONG REBELLION -- THE 2004 LEGISLATIVE YUAN ELECTION: SIGNS OF CHANGE -- Chapter 2 CAN THE DEVIATION BETWEEN OWNERSHIP AND CONTROL EXPLAIN BANK PERFORMANCE IN TAIWAN? -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. BANK BOARDS IN TAIWAN -- 3. SOURCES OF THE DATA -- 4. MORAL HAZARD INDICES AND BASIC STATISTICS -- 4.1. Controlling Shareholders -- 4.2. Cash-Flow Rights, Seat-Control Rights and Voting Rights -- 4.3. Basic Statistics of the Total Sample -- 5. MORAL HAZARD INDICES AND BANK PERFORMANCE -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: EXAMPLE OF HOW TO CALCULATE VOTING RIGHTS AND CASH-FLOW RIGHTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 PREDICTING BANK PERFORMANCE: A DISTRIBUTIONAL APPROACH -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATION -- 3. COMMERCIAL BANKS IN TAIWAN -- 4. RESULTS -- 5. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 CORPORATE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE AND MARKET REACTION TO EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLANS IN TAIWAN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. LITERATURE REVIEW -- 3. DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- 3.1. Hypotheses -- 3.1.1. ESOP and Company Performance -- 3.1.2. ESOP Information Disclosure and Market Efficiency.