Elder Care, Indigeneity and the State
The Tayal People in Contemporary Taiwan
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Beschreibung
This book examines the relationship between the colonial state and Indigenous peoples through the lens of elderly care in Taiwan. Focusing on the Tayal people, an officially-recognized Indigenous group, it introduces a groundbreaking approach, bringing an Indigenous epistemology and Tayal hermeneutics into the study of care practices, and offering valuable insights into the importance of indigenous knowledge systems. By examining indigenous practices and perspectives on care and aging, Wasiq Silan challenges prevailing ideologies and practices, allowing readers to understand the profound wisdom embedded within indigenous cultures and their holistic approaches to well-being and elderly care. This book offers an invaluable resource for students and scholars across multiple disciplines seeking a comprehensive understanding of care, health, wellbeing, and sustainable quality-of-life systems.
Dr Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Development and Social Work at the College of Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan. Previously, she was a Core Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. She is Tayal from the Mstaranan community in the Nanshi River valley of northern Taiwan and regularly participates in Taiwan's delegation to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII). Her research focuses on Indigenous wellbeing and care systems, the decolonization of state-Indigenous relations, and collaborative, community-based, and Indigenous research methodologies.
This book examines the relationship between the colonial state and Indigenous peoples through the lens of elderly care in Taiwan. Focusing on the Tayal people, an officially-recognized Indigenous group, it introduces a groundbreaking approach, bringing an Indigenous epistemology and Tayal hermeneutics into the study of care practices, and offering valuable insights into the importance of indigenous knowledge systems. By examining indigenous practices and perspectives on care and aging, Wasiq Silan challenges prevailing ideologies and practices, allowing readers to understand the profound wisdom embedded within indigenous cultures and their holistic approaches to well-being and elderly care. This book offers an invaluable resource for students and scholars across multiple disciplines seeking a comprehensive understanding of care, health, wellbeing, and sustainable quality-of-life systems.
Examines the relationship between the colonial state and Indigenous peoples through the lens of elderly care in Taiwan Offers a captivating examination of how indigeneity is constructed within aging policies and how care can be reimagined Explores power dynamics, inequality, and transitional justice within the context of elderly care
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Wasiq Silan
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Indigenous studies Chinese societies decolonial social work Ethnic Relations healthy aging assisted living indigenous rights Taiwan Indigenous knowledge Indigenous peoples Taiwan care ethnography decolonial methodologies policy ethics of care
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“This excellent book on Indigenous people in Taiwan meticulously analyzes the ways that managerialism and non-Indigenous approaches reproduced colonization within health care aimed at older Tayal people, as well as the ways that the elders and the staff resisted and reshaped services in more liberatory, community-engaged and Indigenous directions. The book is a must-read for all those interested in decoloniality, Indigenous self-determination, Indigenous people in Asia, and comparative perspectives on Indigenous resistance.” (Donna Baines, Professor of Social Work, University of British Columbia)
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