Guy Beauregard

When the State Defines Who You Are: Taiwan’s Pingpu Recognition Debate A new law passed last week recognized Taiwan’s Pingpu peoples, reigniting debate over who gets to define indigeneity.

On the politics of Indigeneity in Taiwan: "To move beyond the politics of classification, Taiwan must shift from asking 'who qualifies' to asking 'who decides.' True decolonization begins not when the state names its peoples, but when the peoples name themselves."

thediplomat.com/2025/10/when...

From a design perspective, I dislike the mashup of a futuristic "Star Wars" like font for TAIWAN with the old fashioned Alishan train, or the Fujian style temple--I don't find it coherent at all. Then again, I suppose, Taiwan is not "coherent" either so perhaps there is something truthful there!

世界の先住民族、平取に集う　6年ぶりフォーラム　カムイノミで幕開け：北海道新聞デジタル 【平取】6カ国の先住民族が参加する「平取町・二風谷国際先住民族フォーラム2025」が24日、日高管内平取町二風谷で始まった。28日までの期間中、民族を取り巻く現状や課題を話し合う。...

For the first time in 6 years, an Indigenous Peoples Summit is being held in Nibutani from the 24th to 28th.
Participants will discuss issues facing indigenous people worldwide.
Ainu, Sámi, Welsh and Māori representatives are among those attending, as well as groups from the USA, Canada and Taiwan.

You can try assigning this sort of hefty reading now and see how it flies! Even university press books now are often in the 90-130 page range, as professors too steadily lose their abilities to focus.

I am also an academia-dot-edu user. After reading your post, I went into settings and disabled AI use. It nows says: "Your uploaded works are not eligible for:

AI-generated reviews
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To which I say: good!

"Strangers and Their Babies" is a Look at the Forgotten Lives of Vietnamese Refugees in Penghu - No Man Is An Island The PTS documentary Strangers and Their Babies is director Asio Liu’s latest look at unexplored periods in Taiwan’s history that link it to Southeast Asia

"'Strangers and Their Babies' is a Look at the Forgotten Lives of Vietnamese Refugees in Penghu" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

Power Shift Power Shift Edited by Imre Szeman and Jennifer Wenzel

I've really enjoyed reading @imreszeman.bsky.social 's recent work over the summer, including this brilliant set of keywords--offering snapshots of the present, and some maps for possible futures.

wvupressonline.com/Power-Shift

Syaman Rapongan's "Eyes of the Ocean" Proves Rare Example of Taiwanese Indigenous Literature in English - No Man Is An Island Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Ocean proves a rare opportunity to glimpse the accomplished Taiwanese Indigenous writer’s work in English. In this sense, Eyes of the Ocean is one of the rare works of Ta...

"Syaman Rapongan's 'Eyes of the Ocean' Proves Rare Example of Taiwanese Indigenous Literature in English" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

YouTube video by Rising Voices 臺灣原住民語言的數位推動 = Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages of Taiwan

Check out the video from our event in June, co-organized with @risingvoices.bsky.social, @globalvoices.org, and the Indigenous Youth Front, "Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages of Taiwan"!

Do you think this technique is effective? I ask this as someone who tries way too hard, while writing the first draft, to nail down the details, which is--to put it mildly--not the fastest way to work!

From isolation to reflection: Green Island Biennial looks at islands of repression - Focus Taiwan After the first group of political prisoners was sent to Green Island in May 1951, several thousand more followed over the next three decades, incarcerated on a small outpost off Taiwan's southeastern...

The Green Island Biennial is on until September 21, 2025. This year's iteration curated by Nobuo Takamori takes an internationalist approach to (re-)engage with some of the most intimate and painful parts of Taiwan's modern political history.

focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

As Chris Martin famously observed: "Every teardrop is a waterfall."

Group Photos (Hezhao) and the Depoliticisation of Indigeneity in Taiwan Written by Aaron Su. This article discusses the crucial role of photography in consolidating a liberal multicultural order in Taiwan by obscuring dissent through visual depictions of harmonious Ind…

A fascinating and nuanced article by Aaron Su, writing at Taiwan Insight, on photography and Indigeneity in contemporary Taiwan. This article is attentive to the politics of settler management of Indigenous folks as well as to moments that cannot be contained.

taiwaninsight.org/2025/07/18/g...

Atayal Digital Language Activist Tapas Katu: “Using Indigenous Languages is Completely Normal” | New Bloom Magazine The following interview was originally posted on Global Voices ahead of the panel, “Digital Initiatives for Indigenous Languages of Taiwan,” which was held on June 28, 2025 at DAYBREAK.

"Atayal Digital Language Activist Tapas Katu: 'Using Indigenous Languages is Completely Normal'" by Yanne C

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Some big news from yesterday--the Council of Grand Justices ruled that Indigenous traditional territories include both public and private land. This paves the path for the return of Indigenous traditional territories that are private land

www.judicial.gov.tw/tw/cp-1888-1...

Dictatorship era architecture imposed on Indigenous lands! I am sorry but this deserve a thumbs down as an apparently unthinking celebration of settler colonialism.

The last line of the article as published today: "There is still time for us to change." As other folks in this thread have asked: what do you envision as positive change? Another column (or three) perhaps needed . . .

Witi Ihimaera: Back at the beginning | E-Tangata “When I die, I want to make sure that when my ancestors say to me: ‘Kia ora, nau mai, haere mai,’ I won't say to them: ‘I’m sorry, but I can't speak te reo.’” — Witi Ihimaera, on learning te reo at 80...

“When I die, I want to make sure that when my ancestors say to me: ‘Kia ora, nau mai, haere mai,’ I won’t say to them: ‘I’m sorry, but I can’t speak te reo.’” — Witi Ihimaera, on learning te reo at 80.

Review: One last thing Before leaving the physical realm, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o left us with a few notes.

Before leaving the physical realm, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o left us with a few notes. @hararereview.bsky.social reviews his final book, published weeks before he passed away.

Part of those numbers will also be affected by exactly who is recognized by the state as Indigenous. With the Siraya case settled in their favour, I wonder how the numbers will further change when relevant laws recognizing Siraya peoples as Indigenous are changed?

"Silicon Valley's scale-at-all-costs approach to AI development … is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says technology reporter @karenhao.bsky.social, whose new book is "Empire of AI."

The Liberlit Conference The website for the annual Liberlit Conference on the teaching of literature and language in Japan.

"Core Concepts, Key Ideas: What Really Matters in Literary Studies?" This year's Liberlit Conference to be held at Nihon University in Japan seeks to open up and engage with key questions at the heart of our discipline.

www.liberlit.com

If I had a dollar every time I get wacked by an unapologetic auntie slamming her bag(s) against me while riding the bus, I'd be set for retirement.

AI being like, “let me transform your precious manuscript into a barely passable student essay”

A valuable new metric thus emerged: per capita HMB(s).

That photo show President Lai, not former President Tsai who is now reportedly visiting Lithuania and Denmark.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

If you keep this up, we'll soon be hearing MRT announcements in multiple languages telling passengers not to do this!

Silver bullet thinking really is a pathology of the age. Frustration and despair with the slow and incremental nature of actual problem solving leading to an endless appetite for miracle cures - autocratic strong men, AI panaceas etc. Never been a better time to peddle bullshit.

I realize a lot of people feel hopeless right now, but honestly I don't see what the point of being born is if it's not to put your capacities to use in times like these