Learning Through Ljavek’s Indigenous Mobilities and Relationalities in Taiwan’s Urban Spaces

• In Event: Research In Progress Roundtable Session 5
  In Invited Roundtable: Examining Indigenous Education: Culturally Responsive Curriculum, Language Reclaimation, and Storywork (Table 8)

Abstract

This project centers the intergenerational teaching and learning practices within Indigenous sovereignties during coerced relocation and displacement that assert self-determination and nourish community relations, collaborating with Ljavek, a Paiwan Indigenous community in Taiwan. Globally, Indigenous mobilities are shaped by ongoing settler colonialism, but Indigenous mobilities are also informed by Indigenous agency, self-determination, and survivance that re-makes relational structures to ensure the flourishing of communities, lands, and waters. Displaced by urban expansion, Ljavek resisted relocation through legal trials, re-built a Paiwan community, and created kinships that perpetuated Paiwan languages and cultural practices. Informed by Indigenous Research Methodologies and Participatory Action Research, this qualitative research project expands definitions of learning by focusing on learning in resistance, community building, partnerships, and placemaking.

Author

• Yang Hsun Hou, University of Washington