Lost, Found and Troubled in Translation: Reconsidering imagined Indigenous “communities” in post-disaster Taiwan settings

Hsu, Minna

doi:10.20507/alternative.2016.12.1.6

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“…We offer this paper as a complement to the existing literature concerning the relationship between the KMT authority and Indigenous peoples (e.g. Hsu, 2016;Sugimoto, 2017) and between mountain agriculture and Indigenous land use politics (e.g. Huang, 1981;Kuan, 2014).…”

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Apples in action: Territoriality and land use politics of mountain agriculture in Taiwan

Hung

Hsiao

2018

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This essay outlines the symbolic and material transformation of mountain agriculture in Taiwan by tracing the historical trajectories of temperate fruit production, and of apple growing in particular. Specifically, we look at the area of Lishan, a major production centre for apples and other temperate fruits in Taiwan's Central Mountain Range in order to explore the relationship between the mountain agriculture and the politics of territorialisation. Focusing on the post‐war era, we argue that the development of mountain agriculture in Taiwan, and upland fruit growing in particular, has operated as a ‘more‐than‐human political technology’. The territory of Lishan is not just a passive geographical space, but engaged in a process of becoming, which re‐makes the mountain areas of Taiwan into ‘apple zones’ both spatially and socially. The spatial dimension centres on processes of political territorialisation, economic deterritorialisation and combined reterritorialisations whereby apple plantations have transformed the landscape from one focused on strategic politics to one embedded within development and market frameworks which entail their own particular forms of politics. The social dimensions are centred on the politics of forging connections among different elements circulating through the mountain areas of Taiwan, including apples, soldiers, transport infrastructures and agricultural policies.

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Apples in action: Territoriality and land use politics of mountain agriculture in Taiwan

Hung

Hsiao

2018

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“…Many scholars argued that these government policies were insensitive toward Indigenous cultures and historical vulnerabilities [29,[37][38][39][40]. Various Indigenous groups were relocated together; pre-existing villages to which Indigenous groups were resettled were not accustomed to Indigenous cultures; numerous households were ineligible for governmental housing; and resettled families were unable to continue their farming activities or sell their newly acquired homes [37,[41][42][43]. Other studies focused on climatic stressors and shocks: other typhoons besides Morakot; debris flow, landslides, or rock falls as a result of heavy rain; and more general aspects of climate change such as droughts, flooding, and climate variability ( Table 2).…”

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“…In one article [58], the aforementioned words were used interchangeably; it was stated that (t)he Indigenous people are the ethnic minority group [sic] in Taiwan (p.12). Hsu [37], in her insightful study on Taiwan's imagined geographies and identities, discusses in great detail the political implications and issues related to the classification and recognition of Taiwan's Indigenous peoples. This is reflected in how some articles (often from outside the social sciences) identify or acknowledge the relevant Indigenous groups.…”

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Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

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In recent years, the subject of Indigenous peoples and global climate change adaptation has become a rapidly growing area of international study. Despite this trend, Taiwan, home to many Indigenous communities, has received relatively little attention. To date, no comprehensive review of the literature on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and global climate change has been conducted. Therefore, this article presents a bibliometric analysis and literature review of both domestic and international studies on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples in relation to resilience, climate change, and climate shocks in the 10-year period after Typhoon Morakot (2009). We identified 111 domestic and international peer-reviewed articles and analyzed their presentation of the current state of knowledge, geographical and temporal characteristics, and Indigenous representation. Most studies were discovered to focus on post-disaster recovery, particularly within the context of Typhoon Morakot, as well as Indigenous cultures, ecological wisdom, and community development. This study also discovered relatively few studies investigating how traditional ecological knowledge systems can be integrated into climate change adaptation. Most studies also adopted a somewhat narrow focus on Indigenous resilience. Large-scale quantitative and longitudinal studies are found to be in their infancy. We observed a geographical skewness among the studies in favor of southern Taiwan and relatively limited engagement with contemporary studies on Indigenous peoples and climate change. We furthermore determined a large overlap between the destruction path of Morakot and study sites in the articles. Indigenous scholars have managed to find a voice among domestic and international outlets, and an increasing number of scholars have argued for more culturally sensitive approaches to post-disaster recovery and disaster management in Taiwan.

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“…Indigenous Taiwanese have experienced multiple colonial governments (Hsu 2016) since this island was initially spotted by Portuguese sailors and given the name 'Formosa', which means beautiful island, in the sixteenth century. The island was occupied by the Netherlands (1624-1662; mainly in southern Taiwan) and Spain (1626-1642; mainly in northern Taiwan) in the Age of Discovery.…”

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Reframing Indigenous water rights in ‘modern’ Taiwan: reflecting on Tayal experience of colonized common property

Chen

Suchet‐Pearson

Howitt

2018

International Journal of the Commons

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There is a widely accepted stereotype that Indigenous Taiwanese have lost their connection to country as a result of colonization and thus the Indigenous presence is often omitted in representations of 'modern' Taiwan. By asserting a modern/traditional binary that privileges the colonizer as modern these representations demean Indigenous cultures as 'primitive' or 'traditional'. This paper challenges those biased dichotomies by exploring the experience of Tayal people in northern Taiwan, drawing on both field and archival research to demonstrate the resistant and persistent Indigenous presence in common property resource governance, specifically water governance. The research found that Tayal systems for common property governance persist in the management of water. It also demonstrates that in those governance systems, non-human agencies such as water have active agency in Tayal culture. By recognizing water as actively engaged in the common property governance, the paper argues that governing common property in the Tayal context is about contemporary and adaptive governance relations among non-human and human agencies in a more-than-human world, as well as communally sharing the custodianship. It is misguided to understand these governance systems as primitive, traditional or inauthentic -all common representations within dominant Taiwanese discourses. The paper also argues that recognizing and engaging Tayal people's communal custodianship offers a Reframing Indigenous water rights in 'modern' Taiwan 379 foundation for building culturally appropriate, just and resilient common property governance frameworks in Taiwan's contested cultural landscapes.

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Lost, Found and Troubled in Translation: Reconsidering imagined Indigenous “communities” in post-disaster Taiwan settings

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

Apples in action: Territoriality and land use politics of mountain agriculture in Taiwan

Apples in action: Territoriality and land use politics of mountain agriculture in Taiwan

Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

Reframing Indigenous water rights in ‘modern’ Taiwan: reflecting on Tayal experience of colonized common property

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