That's a great conversation--very illuminating.

Which one is Reviewer #2? Asking for a friend.

From a Taiwanese diasporic perspective, Leona Chen (taiwaneseamerican.org) brilliantly mobilizes co-conjuration as a cultural practice:

leonawchen.substack.com/p/vol-12-whe...

Thinking across time and space, Chen refuses what Yoneyama calls "the perniciousness of disconnected knowledge." 3/3

Yoneyama does not discuss Taiwan or the Taiwanese diaspora in this essay, but her call to contest modes of "colonial unknowing" resonates across Taiwan's settler colonial spaces, including Taipower's nuclear storage site on Indigenous Tao territory on Lanyu / Orchid Island. 2/3

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!

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
AI-generated podcasts
AI-generated key takeaways
AI-generated abstracts
AI-generated FAQs."

To which I say: good!

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!

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

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 . . .

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?