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The paradox of cultivating community resiliency: Re-agrarianisation and De-peasantisation of indigenous farmers in Taiwan
Abstract The past decade has witnessed an emerging interest in growing quinoa in indigenous townships in Taiwan, which has overlapped with the recovery effort from disasters following Typhoon Morakot in 2009. This paper critically examines the acclaim given to the quinoa boom as testifying to the community resilience of the indigenous people displaced by disasters and relocation policies. Tracing the changing socio-ecologies of the indigenous communities, the case study observes the simultaneous reagrarianization and depeasantization of indigenous farmers in response to a series of crises. It illustrates the ongoing depeasantization underneath the expansion of quinoa growing, which is engendering a set of paradoxical practices of community resilience that is restructuring the landscape of communities.
Highlights Quinoa boom as a practice of community resilience by indigenous farmers displaced by disasters. Simultaneous re-agarianisation and depeasantisation of indigenous farmers in response to crises. A set of paradoxical practices of community resilience that bring about changes, uncertainties and possibilities of reterritorializing lost lands. The multivalent nature of “community resilience”.
The paradox of cultivating community resiliency: Re-agrarianisation and De-peasantisation of indigenous farmers in Taiwan
Abstract The past decade has witnessed an emerging interest in growing quinoa in indigenous townships in Taiwan, which has overlapped with the recovery effort from disasters following Typhoon Morakot in 2009. This paper critically examines the acclaim given to the quinoa boom as testifying to the community resilience of the indigenous people displaced by disasters and relocation policies. Tracing the changing socio-ecologies of the indigenous communities, the case study observes the simultaneous reagrarianization and depeasantization of indigenous farmers in response to a series of crises. It illustrates the ongoing depeasantization underneath the expansion of quinoa growing, which is engendering a set of paradoxical practices of community resilience that is restructuring the landscape of communities.
Highlights Quinoa boom as a practice of community resilience by indigenous farmers displaced by disasters. Simultaneous re-agarianisation and depeasantisation of indigenous farmers in response to crises. A set of paradoxical practices of community resilience that bring about changes, uncertainties and possibilities of reterritorializing lost lands. The multivalent nature of “community resilience”.
The paradox of cultivating community resiliency: Re-agrarianisation and De-peasantisation of indigenous farmers in Taiwan
Huang, Shu-Mei (author) / Che-Hao (Valagas Gadeljeman), Hu (author) / Chang, Yu-Hsin (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 83 ; 96-105
2021-02-25
10 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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