Type of Credit: Elective
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Peoples speaking Austronesian languages in Taiwan lived independently and autonomously for thousands of years until the colonial powers landed. Accompany with modernistic discourses and practices, Colonization brought new political economic orders, and also a cultural hierarchy that depreciated indigenous knowledge. While the political regime transferred after the colonizers withdrew, many conceptual and institutional constructions still remained, and intertwined with following state-led development projects. Decolonization is therefore an ongoing process. It requires the works to reveal the relations between modernization, colonization and development, as well as the efforts to deconstruct the colonial legacies embedded in the development agendas. Meanwhile, in the process, indigenous peoples’ continual struggles to survive their unique identities and relations to the lands are inspiring us to image the pluralistic and alternative possibilities of future. To help students to enhance their ability to dialogue real world phenomena and analytical theories , this course will review the relevant theories, go through Taiwan indigenous peoples’ experiences, and conclude with the lessons we can learn from these experiences.
能力項目說明
This course aims to equip students with knowledge of:
1) Memory: what are the relations between colonization, modernization and development?
2) Comprehension: why these relations matter to the transition of indigenous societies?
3) Application: how the theories learned in this course can be applied to the discussion of the past, present and future of Taiwan indigenous societies?
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【Weekly outline】
Week01 Introduction:【Course overview】＋【Movie screening】
【Theme I :The relations between colonialism, modernization and development】
Week02 Why Development?
Week03 Failed modernization
Week04 From colonialism to development
【Theme II: The Historical experiences of Taiwan indigenous peoples】
Week05 Indigenous people in the Colonial context and State-led Development
Week06 Indigenous politics and the politics in the indigenous societies
Week07【Guest Speech】
Week08 Indigenous land and traditional territory
Week09 Language, Culture and Identity
【Theme III: The post-modern and de-colonial reflections】
Week10 Alternative Development: Neo-populism, Indigenous Knowledge, and Its Critics
Week11 Alternative Development: Neoliberalism and Sustainable Development
Week12【Field Trip】
Week13 Alternative Development: Development with Culture and Identity
【Theme IV: Contemporary Taiwan indigenous struggles and testimonies】
Week14 Cases of Alternative Development in Taiwan indigenous Societies I
Week15 Cases of Alternative Development in Taiwan indigenous Societies II
Week16【Course Conclusion】
【Course Requirement】
This is a reading seminar, and students should expect to read up to 4 articles or book chapters per week. Each seminar participant is required to make four to five (depends on the number of students enrolled in the course) presentations of weekly readings by the end of the semester. Students not making presentation for that week should also read the weekly readings and participate in class discussion. Students not making presentation for that week should write a one-page commentary on the readings. The commentary should be submitted online before Sunday 23:59. You are encouraged to bring in other sources such as other bodies of literature, case studies, or your own experience to enrich the discussion of the assigned topic.
In addition to the readings, this course will arrange one field trips to visit indigenous communities in Taiwan. The field trip aims to help students to experience the situation of Taiwan indigenous society. In the trips, students will visit the legacy of colonial contact, witness the impact of tourism business, and local community's efforts to engage modernity. Furthermore, students will experience community-based ecological tourism, local organic farming and cultural revitalization that reflect indigenous peoples’ efforts to seek for alternative development.
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60-70 |
70-80 |
80-90 |
90 and above |
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Participation of class discussion (30%) |
No participation |
Participate in class discussion sometimes |
Participate in class discussion very often |
Participate in class discussion very often; able to provide original thinking |
Participate in class discussion very often; able to provide original thinking and apply related theories for the discussion |
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Presentation (40%) |
Fail to complete all the assigned presentations |
Complete all the assigned presentations |
Able to introduce the author and elaborate the important argument of the reading |
Able to introduce the author ,elaborate the important argument, and make proper comment for the reading |
Able to introduce the author ,elaborate the important argument, make proper comment for the reading, and further raise good questions for class discussion |
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Weekly Commentary (30%) |
Fail to submit the weekly commentary |
Submit the weekly commentary sometimes |
Submit most of the weekly commentaries; |
Submit commentary every week; make good point in the commentary |
Submit commentary every week; make good point in the commentary; bring in further resources for discussion |
【Reading List】
Week 2. Why development?
Assigned Readings:
·Paul Streeten. 1983. "Development Dichotomies,” World Development 11(10): 875-889.
·Richard Peet and Elaine Hartwick. 1999. "Introduction" in Theories of Development, chapter 1
·Amartya Sen. 1999. Development as Freedom, New York: Anchor Books. Chapters 1
·Kees Biekart, Laura Camfield, Uma Kothari, Henning Melber 2024 Rethinking Development and Decolonising Development Studies in Challenging Global Development Towards Decoloniality and Justice. H. Melber et al. (eds.), EADI Global Development Series, p. 1-13
Suggested Readings:
·Arturo Escobar. 1995. “The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and Development”. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World. Routledge: 21-54.
·Amartya Sen. 1999. Development as Freedom, New York: Anchor Books. Chapters 2-4
Week 3. Failed modernization?
Assigned Readings:
·Albert O. Hirschman. 1981. "The rise and decline of development Economics,” Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond. New York: Cambridge University Press: 1-24.
·Arturo Escobar. 1992. "Planning" in W. Sachs (ed.). The Development Dictionary: A Guide to Knowledge as Power. London and New Jersey: Zed Books: 132-145.
·Michael R. Dove. 1993. “A revisionist view of tropical deforestation and development,” Environmental Conservation 20 (1): 17-24, 56.
·S. Lily Mendoza 2013. Savage representations in the discourse of modernity: Liberal ideology and the impossibility of nativist longing in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society
Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1-19
Suggested Readings:
· Nandha Shresta. 1995.“Becoming a Development Category”in J. Crush (ed.). Power of Development. London and New York: Routledge: 266-277.
· Richard Peet and Elaine Hartwick. 1999. "Economic Theories of Growth and Development" and"Sociological Theories of Modernization," Theories of Development, chapters 2 and 3 (text).
Week4 From colonialism to development
Assigned Readings:
Sium,A., Desai, C., Ristkes, E. 2012. Towards the tangible unknown: decolonization and the indigenous future”. Decolonization, Indigeneity, Education, & Society. 1(1). 1-13
Snelgrove, Dhamoon & Corntassel. 2014 Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 3, No. 2, 2014, pp. 1-32
Jennifer Matsunaga 2016.Two faces of transitional justice: Theorizing the incommensurability of transitional justice and decolonization in Canada in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 5, No. 1, 2016, pp. 24-44
Lata Narayanaswamy 2024. What Is ‘Development’ and Can We ‘Decolonise’ It? Some Ontological and Epistemological Reflections in Challenging Global DevelopmentTowards Decoloniality and Justice. H. Melber et al. (eds.), EADI Global Development Series. 225-236
Suggested Readings:
Jeff Corntassel (2012) Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination in Decolonization: Indigeneity,Education & Society Vol.1,No.1,
pp.86-101
Ilan Kapoor 2023. Decolonising Development Studies. Review of International Studies Volume 49 , Issue 3 , July 2023 , pp. 346 - 355
Week 5. Indigenous people in the colonial context and the state-led development
Assigned Readings:
·Shepherd, John. 1993. Statecraft and Political Economy on the Taiwan Frontier, 1600-1800.Stanford: Standford University Press.
·Chang, L.C. 2008，From Quarantine to Colonization: Qing Debates on Territorialization of Aboriginal Taiwan in the Nineteenth Century teenth-Century Taiwan」，《Taiwan Historical Research》15(4），p1-30。
·Yao. R.D. 2006 ."The Japanese Colonial State and Its Form of Knowledge" in Liao Ping Hui & Wang Der-Wei (eds.) Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory. New York: Co;umbia University Press. pp. 37-61
·Simon, Scott. 2006. “Remembrance as Resistance: Social Memory and Social Movement on Indigenous Formosa.” Paper presented at The Third Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies, Paris, March 30-31.
Suggested Readings:
·Ching, Leo. T.S.2001. Becoming’Japanese’: colonial Taiwan and the politics of identity formation. Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Brown, Melissa.J. .2004.” Is Taiwan Chinese?: The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities.”Berkeley, Calif. ;London: University Of California Press. Chapter 2. Where Did the Aborigines Go? Reinstating Plains Aborigines in Taiwans’s History. Pp.35-65.
Week 6. Indigenous politics and politics in indigenous societies
Assigned Readings:
·Stainton ,Michael.2007.” The Politics of Taiwan Aboriginal Origins.”In Taiwan:A New History. Murray A. Rubinstein, ed. Pp.27-4. New York M.E. Sharpe.
·Ku, Kun-Hui.2008. Ethnographic Studies of Voting among the Austronesian Paiwan :The Role of Paiwan Chiefs in the Contemporary State System of Taiwan.Pacific Affairs 81(3): 838-406.
·Ku, Kun-Hui.2005. Right To Recognition: Minority/Indigenous Politics in the Emerging Taiwanese Nationalism. Social Analysis 49(2): 99-121.
·Simon ,Scott.2010. Negotiating power: Elections and the constitution of indigenous Taiwan.American Ethnologist 37(4): 726-740.
Suggested Readings:
· Hsieh, Jolan (2017). The Changing Identities of Taiwan’s Plains Indigenous Peoples, in
J. Bruce Jacobs & Peter Kang (eds), Changing Taiwanese Identities. New York:
Routledge
·Chiu Yen- liang(Fred) .1989. Taiwan;s Aborigines And Their Struggle towards Radical Democracy. In Ethnicity : Identity, Conflict and Crisis. Kumar David and Santasilan Kadirgamar,eds. Hong Kong: Area Press.
Week 8. Indigenous land traditional territory
Assigned Readings:
·Chi, C. and Chin, H. .2012. “Knowledge, Power, and Tribal Mapping: A Critical Analysis of the 'Return of the Truku People',” GeoJournal, 77, 733–740
·Hsu, M, Howitt, R and C-C Chi 2014 The idea of ‘Country’: Reframing post-disaster recovery in Indigenous Taiwan settings. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 55(3):370-380.
·Kuan ,D.W. 2016. “Multiculturalism and Indigenous Peoples: A Critical Review of the Experience in Taiwan” in A Transnational Exploration of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Edited by Koichi Iwabuchi, Hyun Mee Kim, and Hsiao-Chuan Hsia. Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield
Kuan, Da-Wei.2021. Indigenous Traditional Territory and Decolonisation of The Settler State: The Taiwan Experience in Taiwan’s Contemporary Indigenous Peoples. Huang, C.T., Daniel Davies, Dafydd Fell( eds.) (ISBN 9780367553579) pp.184-205. London: Routledge
Suggested Readings:
·Simon, Scott. 2005. “Scarred Landscapes & Tattooed Faces: Poverty, Identity & Land Conflict in a Taiwanese Indigenous Community.”In Indigenous peoples and poverty:an international perspective.Robyn Eversole, John-Andrew McNeish, and Alberto D. Cimadamore, eds. Pp. 53-68. London: Zed Books.
Week9. Language, Culture and Identity
Assigned Readings:
·Rudolph, Michael. 2008 Ritual Performances as Authenticating Practices: Cultural Representations of Taiwan's Aborigines in Times of Political Change. Berlin: Lit. （part 1）
·Hsie, His-chun 1994 Tourism, Formulation of. Cultural Tradition, and Ethnicity: A Study of the Daiyrm Identity of the Wulai Atayal. In Cultural Change in Postwar Taiwan.Steven Harrell and Huang Chun-chieh, eds. Boudler:Westview Press
Hsie, His-chun 1999 Formosan Prehistory of the Austronesian Aborigines：A ‘Hot but Cold’ Discourse among the Native Archaeologists in Taiwan.” In Taiwan：A History, Murray A. Rubinstein ed. Armonk, NY：M.E. Sharpe, Inc.
· Yang, Shu-Yuan.2011. Cultural Performance and the Reconstruction of Tradition among the Bunun of Taiwan. Oceania 81(3).
Suggested Readings:
·Wang, M.S. 2008 The Reinvention of Ethnicity and Culture: A Comparative Study on the Atayal and the Truku in Taiwan. Bulletin of the Department of Anthropology. 68︰1-44。
Yang, Shu-Yuan.2008.Christianity, Identity and the Construction of Moral Community among the Bunun of Taiwan. Social Analysis 52(3):51-74.
Week 10. Alternative Development I: Neopopulism, Indigenous Knowledge, and Its Critiques
Assigned Readings:
·Bebbington, A. 1993. Modernization from below: an alternative indigenous development? Economic Geography 69, 274–292
·Arun Agrawal. 1995. “Dismantling the divide between indigenous and scientific knowledge,” Development and Change 26: 413-439.
·Brosius, J .Peter. 2000. "Endangered Forest, Endangered People: Environmentalist Representations of lndigenous Knowledge," in R. Ellen, P. Parkes and A. Bicker (eds), Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations, Harwood Academics, pp. 293-317
Ioana Radu, Lawrence (Larry) M. House, Eddie Pashagumskum 2014. Land, life, and knowledge in Chisasibi: Intergenerational healing in the bush in Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Vol. 3, No. 3, 2014, pp. 86-105
Suggested Readings:
·Berkes, Fikret. 1999. Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Resource Management. Taylor and Francis: pp. 129-183.
Week 11. Alternative Development II: Neoliberalism and Sustainable Development
Assigned Readings:
·Janet Cochrane. 1996, “The sustainability of ecotourism in Indonesia: fact and fiction”. In M.J.G. Parnwell and R.L. Bryant (eds.). Environmental Change in South-east Asia: People, Politics and Sustainable Development. Routledge: 237-259.
·Michael Goldman. 2004. “Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a ‘green’ World Bank,” Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements: 166-192.
·Peluso, Nancy and A. B. Purwanto. 2017.“The remittance forest: Turning mobile labor
into agrarian capital”. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 39 (1), 6 –36.
Aram Ziai 2024 Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals: Post-development Alternatives in Challenging Global DevelopmentTowards Decoloniality and Justice, H. Melber et al. (eds.), EADI Global Development Series
Suggested Readings:
·Brooke Wilmsen and Michael Webber .2016.Displacement and resettlement as a mode of capitalist transformation : evidence from China
·Emel Zerrouk .2016.Development-forced land grabs and resistance in reforming Myanmar : the Letpadaung Copper Mine
Week 13. Development with culture and identity
Assigned Readings:
·Radcliffe, S. & N. Laurie.2006.“Culture and development: taking culture seriously in development for Andean indigenous people” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (24) 231-248
·Tanira Kingi 2014 Tribal partnerships and developing ancestral Mäori land, in in Pacific-Asia Partnerships in Resource Development, ANU Press
·Acabado, S. 2018. Zones of refuge: Resisting conquest in the northern Philippine highlands through environmental practice . Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2018.05.005
·Acabado, S. and M. Martin. (2018). The Ifugao Agroecological System: Bridging Culture and Nature to Enhance Tropical Biodiversity. In Exploring Networks for Tropical Forest Conservation: Integrating Natural, Cultural Diversity for Sustainability, A Global Perspective, N. Sanz (ed), pp. 228-253. UNESCO Office in Mexico.
Suggested Readings:
·Lai Ming Lam .2016.Conservation-led displacement, poverty and cultural survival: the experiences of the indigenous Rana Tharus community in far-western Nepal
·Bauman ,Toni and Ciaire Stacey 2014 Agreement-making and free, prior, and informed consent in the Australien Native Title landscape, in Pacific-Asia Partnerships in Resource Development, ANU Press
·Zayas, Cynthia .2014 Combining customary rights and national law in the management
of Visayan fisheries in the Philippines, in in Pacific-Asia Partnerships in Resource Development, ANU Press
Week 14. Cases of Contemporary efforts I
Assigned Readings:
·Lin,Yih-Ren*;Lahuy Icyeh;Da-Wei Kuan, 2008.01, "Indigenous Language–Informed Participatory Policy in Taiwan: A Socio-Political Perspective," Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages, University of Hawaii Press, pp.134-161
·Huang, S.W. Accepting the Best, Revealing the Difference--Borrowing and Identity in an Ami Village. In Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society. Philip Clart and Charles B. Jones, eds. Pp. 257-279. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press
·Hu, Tai-Li.2017.The Decline and Revitalisation of Shamanic Traditions in a Paiwan Village in Taiwan
Qing-xiong BA, Hong-zen WANG, Mei-hsiang WANG.2023. Agrobiodiversity, Social Institutions, and Indigenous Farming Practices: A Case Study of the Rukai Tribe in Wutai, Taiwan, Human Ecology, 51(6), 1141-1156.
Suggested Readings:
Shu-Min Huang & Shao-Hua Liu (2016) Discrimination and incorporation of Taiwanese indigenous Austronesian peoples, Asian Ethnicity, 17:2, 294-312
Week 15. Cases of Contemporary efforts II
Assigned Readings:
·Vermander, Benoit .2017. Rituals as Local Knowledge: Millet and the Symbolic Subsistence of
Taiwan's Aboriginal Populations
· Chen, Y. Y-S., Kuan, Da-Wei., Suchet-Pearson, Sandy & Richie Howitt 2018. Decolonizing property in Taiwan: challenging hegemonic constructions of property. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(6):987-1006.
·Sasala Taiban, Hui-Nien Lin & Chun-Chieh Ko 2020 . Disaster, relocation, and resilience: recovery and adaptation of Karamemedesane in Lily Tribal Community after Typhoon Morakot, Taiwan, Environmental Hazards, 19:2, 209-222
YR Lin, P Tomi, H Huang, CH Lin, Y Chen 2020 Situating Indigenous Resilience: Climate Change and Tayal’s “Millet Ark” Action in Taiwan .Sustainability 12(24)
Suggested Readings:
Charlton, C. Guy., Gao, Xiang & Da-Wei Kuan.2017. The law relating to hunting and gathering rights in the traditional territories of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples. Asia Pacific Law Review, 25(2),1-24