{"id":1875,"date":"2024-01-10T14:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T13:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/?page_id=1875"},"modified":"2024-02-28T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T13:52:52","slug":"tania-li","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/fellows\/fellows-fias\/tania-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Tania Li"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tania Li is Professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto (Canada). Her fellowship at the Montpellier Advanced Knowledge Institute on Transitions runs from 1 September 2023 to 30 June 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tania Li\u2019s early research in Southeast Asia concerned urban cultural politics in Singapore. Since then she has focused on culture, economy, environment, and development in Indonesia\u2019s upland regions. She has written about the rise of Indonesia\u2019s indigenous peoples\u2019 movement, land reform, rural class formation, struggles over the forests and conservation, community resource management, state-organized resettlement and the problems faced by people who are pushed off the land in contexts where they have little or no access to waged employment. Her book The Will to Improve<\/a><\/em> explores a century of interventions by colonial and contemporary officials, missionaries, development experts and activists. Powers of Exclusion<\/a><\/em> examines agrarian transition to see what happens to farmers\u2019 access to land in the context of competing land uses (e.g. conservation, urban sprawl, plantation agriculture). Her prize-winning book Land\u2019s End<\/a><\/em> tracks the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders when they enclosed their common land. Plantation Life<\/a><\/em> explores the forms of social, political, cultural and economic life that emerge in Indonesia\u2019s oil palm plantation zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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