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Dr. Wasiq Silan

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Assistant Professor Indigenous Development and Social Work

Lokah simu kwara! I am Wasiq Silan (I-An Gao 高怡安). I am a Tayal woman from the Mstaranan known as the Nanshi River valley in the northern part of Taiwan. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Helsinki in 2021. My work engages with Taiwan's social policy and the Tayal elders, grounded in interpretive policy analysis and critical ethnography while drawing from Indigenous methodologies. Doing Indigenous methodologies heal self-doubt and colonial wounds. You can listen to a short poem reflecting on my self-doubt about not being Indigenous here.
 
 

I was a core fellow at the prestigious Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, 2022-2024. For shared interest of migration and decoloniality, I am affiliated with the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the University of Helsinki; for enhancing indigenous perspectives, I am part of the Indigenous Voices (IVO) research group at The Arctic University of Norway. Last but not least, for a shared interest of promoting social justice and decolonization of knowledge, I am participating in the International School of Radical Relationism. I have participated in the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) multiple times in the past decade. I presented and facilitated the substantial participation of Indigenous delegates from Taiwan. 

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