Alternative Title
你不能在线建造独木舟：原住民台湾的行动主义和身份
Abstract
The Republic of China is the current government occupying the island of Taiwan –– a multiethnic land that has been populated by diverse groups for thousands of years. Today, these groups continue to face a range of adversities on behalf of the colonial government. Further, the island’s internet is dominated by Western social media platforms that exclude native modes of communication. Through ethnographic surveys and interviews, this study explores how indigenous Taiwanese activists understand their own identities, strategies of activism, and relationships to social media platforms to interrogate dominant postcolonial frameworks. It comes to two separate yet linked conclusions regarding the insufficiency of Western categories on one hand, and social media platforms on the other.
Advisor
Derderian, Elizabeth
Second Advisor
You, Ziying
Department
Chinese Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Recommended Citation
Hinden, Adam King, "You Can’t Build A Canoe Online: Activism And Identity In Indigenous Taiwan" (2022). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 9868.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/9868
Disciplines
Linguistic Anthropology | Social and Cultural Anthropology
Keywords
Taiwan, Indigenous, Identity, Activism, Social Media
Publication Date
2022
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis Exemplar
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