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Hao-Li Lin 林浩立

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Office：HSS C624
Phone：03-5742821
E-mail：hl.lin@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Research areas: Taiwan, Fiji, Oceania, Austronesian world
Research interests: Environment, Agriculture, Development, Conservation, Sovereignty, Sports, Popular Music, Hip-Hop

 

 

My main research interest concerns how the indigenous Fijian idea of environment entangles with contemporary projects of environmentalism, eco-tourism, and agriculture, and how development is perceived and acted out in these processes. From there I have ventured into the study of different creative forms of cultural representation including music, movie, sports, and literature in the Austronesian world, particularly how they are involved with the politics of identity, indigeneity, and sovereignty. I am also an expert and practitioner of Hip-Hop culture and have recently developed a project on the 70s/80s disco wave in Taiwan.

 

 

 

Education　
  • 2015 PhD in Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, USA
  • 2004 B.A., Anthropology, National Taiwan University
 

Professional Appointments　
  • 08/2023 – present Associate Professor, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
  • 08/2017 – 07/2023 Assistant Professor, Institute of Anthropology, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
  • 01/2017 – 07/2017 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
  • 01/2016 – 04/2016 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
  • 05/2015 – 06/2015 Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
  • 08/2013 – 04/2014 Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh.
  • 07/2011 – 06/2012 Doctoral Candidate Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
 

Courses　

Undergraduate

  • Societies and Cultures in Oceania
  • Sports and Society
  • Introduction to Anthropology
  • Hiphopology
  • Introduction to Environmental Anthropology

Graduate

  • Environmental Anthropology
  • Sustainable Community Development
  • Anthropological Methodology
  • Taiwanese Popular Music Studies
  • Ethnographies of Oceania
  • Sovereignties: Promises, Limits, and Possibilities
 

Publications　
Journal Articles :
  • 2019 “More than a ‘Petty Chief’: Understanding Fijian Chiefship through the Entrance Ceremony and Local History”, Anthropologica 61(2): 213-226.
  • 2019 “Austronesian Speakers and Hereditary Leadership in the Pacific”, Anthropological Forum 29(3): 1-17. With Richard Scaglion.（First author）
  • 2016 “The Resilient Landscape: Fijian Village Gardens in the Age of Commercial Agriculture”, Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 14(1):113-148.
  • 2012 “Colonial Uneven Development, Fijian Vanua and Modern Ecotourism in Taveuni, Fiji”, Pacific Asia Inquiry 3(1):41-57.
  • 2005 “Popularization, Localization, and Imagination: The Making of Hip Hop Culture in Taiwan”, Human and Culture 37:7-28 (In Chinese).
Book Chapters/Sections :
  • Forthcoming “From Historical Realism to Austronesian Futurism: Situating Indigenous-themed Comics in Taiwan” in Guido Carlo Pigliasco and Suzanne S. Finney (eds.) Deframing Oceania: How Comics and Graphic Novels Have Challenged the Narratives of Pacific Islands and Islanders. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
  • Forthcoming “Cooperation in an ‘Ambiguous Space’: Indigenous Fijian Inshore Sovereignty and Governance” in Towards Governance and World-Making: Comparative Austronesian Perspectives. Taipei: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica (In Chinese).
  • 2019 “Muscular Vernaculars: Braggadocio, ‘Academic Rappers’, and Alternative Hip-Hop Masculinity in Taiwan” in Eva Tsai et al. (eds) Made in Taiwan: Studies in Popular Music. New York and London: Routledge. Pp. 157-167.
  • 2017 “Mobile Phone Usage in the Pacific Islands” in Andrew Strathern et al. (eds) Oceania: An Introduction to the Cultures and Identities of Pacific Islanders, Second Edition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. Pp. 15-17.
Book/Film Reviews :
  • 2022 Rez Metal, Directed by Ashkan Soltani Stone, 2021, 75 minutes, English. Produced by Aks Media, Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Slated, Taiwan Journal of Anthropology, 20(1): 196-200 (In Chinese).
  • 2021 Radhika Govindrajan, Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (The University of Chicago Press), Taiwan Journal of Anthropology 19(1): 162-167 (In Chinese).
  • 2017 Kees van Dijk, Pacific Strife: The Great Powers and their Political and Economic Rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific 1870-1914 (Amsterdam University Press), Pacific Affairs 90(1): 111-113.
Conference Papers/Presentations :
  • 2023 “Disco as Unmarked Sound in Late Cold War Taiwan”, for the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music-Southeast Asia and International Council for Traditional Music-Malaysia. Penang, Malaysia.
  • 2022 “When ‘Hood’ Becomes Club: Cultural Practices of the University Hip Hop Culture Club in Taiwan”, for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
  • 2022 “In Search of the 70s and 80s Disco Era in Taiwan”, for the annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Daegu, South Korea.
  • 2021 “Indigenous Fijian Inshore Governance and Sovereignty” for the conference Indigenous People, State and Governance: Perspectives from Taiwan, Oceania and South-East Asia. Academia, Sinica, Taiwan.
  • 2020 “Hip-Hop as Cultural Heritage: From Themed Museum to Walking Tour” for the 9th International Biennial Conference of Museum Studies, Taipei National University of the Arts.
  • 2020 “In Search of a Disco Era in Taiwan 1974-1987” for The Cinema/TV/Radio Forum, Taipei.
  • 2020 “Rain and Land” for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Nantou, Taiwan.
  • 2019 “Songs, Hymns, and the Negotiation of Identities in Waitabu, Fiji” for the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. Auckland, New Zealand.
  • 2018 “The Articulations of Movies and Militourism: The Case of Moana” for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Taitung, Taiwan.
  • 2017 “What Can the Reef Check Survey Detect in a Fijian Coastal Community?” for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2016 “Austronesian Speakers and Social Hierarchies in the Pacific” with Richard Scaglion for the international workshop Hierarchy and Egalitarianism in Austronesia/Oceania. Hsinchu, Taiwan.
  • 2016 “Can the Fijian Vanua (Land) Incorporate Indo-Fijians?” for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2016 “More than a Petty Chief: Reexamining Fijian Chiefship through the Welcome Ceremony and Communal Identity” for the annual meeting of the Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania. San Diego, CA.
  • 2015 “Fijian Vanua (Land) and they Dynamic Austronesian Environments” for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2015 “Sustaining the Hidden Diversity: Fijian Village Food Gardens in the Age of Neoliberal Agriculture” for the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Pittsburgh, PA.
  • 2014 “Messy Gardens and Powerful Landscapes: Fijian Farming in a Globalized World” for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC.
  • 2013 “Breathing Spaces at the Sea: The Ambiguity of Fijian Inshore Territorial Ownership” for the international workshop Legal Ground: Land and Law in Contemporary Taiwan and the Pacific. Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2012 “Who Owns the Sea? Kai Vulagi Business, I-Taukei Custom and the State Law at Coastal Taveuni, Fiji” for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2011 “Conserving the Marine Environment, Developing the Vanua: An Environmental Ethnography of Waitabu, Fiji” for the annual meeting of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology. Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 2010 “Farming and Fishing in the Garden Island: Conservation and Subsistence Strategies in Waitabu, Fiji” for the international conference Future Challenges, Ancient Solutions: What We Can Learn from the Past about the Future in the Pacific. Suva, Fiji.
  • 2010 “Colonial Uneven Development and the Rise of Modern Environmentalism in Taveuni, Fiji: Using the Bouma Region as an Example” for the international workshop Migration, Network and Colonial Legacies in Pacific Islands, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies. Taipei, Taiwan.
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