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謝力登 (Derek Sheridan)
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研究室:R2717
電話:02-26523479
在本所任職期間:2018年10月1日起迄今
學術履歷: 下載 學術履歷
研究概述

我的研究廣泛地關注在個體經驗、關係性 (relationality)和全球/地緣政治想象的關聯。我計畫中的第一本書,研究對象將會是中國跟非洲之間近年來互動之下建立的經濟關係和人口移動。我曾在很早期便跟中國有密切關係的坦桑尼亞作了總共十七個月的田野調查,針對中國人為了生意/打工而移民到坦桑尼亞的現象。在當代新興「南南合作」的政治經濟形構下,我對中國移民者的生涯規劃(life projects)和普通坦桑尼亞人的生活項目如何相互依存提出疑問,還有他們如何使用日常社會交流的倫理判斷來分析中非關係。我的田野調查持續關注在從中國到坦桑尼亞製成品的分配/銷售渠道)。在達累斯薩拉姆(Dar es Salaam),中國批發商的進入,跟坦桑尼亞當地批發商/零售商產生不同的競爭和合作關係。商人的地位隨著中國產品的進入而上升或衰退。我將這現象的脈絡置於更久遠的亞非連接歷史之中,並分析不同情境下充滿互補性跟矛盾性的人際關係。對比中國人(在坦桑尼亞的「客人」或「投資者」)和坦桑尼亞「主人」或 「本地人」之間的權力、弱點、道德責任,還有選擇權。這些情況,包括企業家之間的市場競爭和貿易等級制度、同事之間的不信任和相互依賴、朋友和陌生人之間物質和情感互惠的爭議、商人跟街頭官僚之間小型賄賂的倫理。我描述中國移民者和普通坦桑尼亞人如何在南南合作中動員「民族」、「文化」、「種族」、「 政治道德」和 「(非)帝國」類似的概念,並提供一種白話評論。如此,我目標在透過全球不平等的人際倫理民族誌視角,重新思考世界秩序的人類學。 

我下一個研究項目的對象是「海上絲綢之路」及類似印度洋世界化(worlding)的背景下的亞非文化交流。雖然中國政府最近試圖在非洲以「武術」進行 “文化外交”,但是東非的東亞武術實踐早就出現了。坦桑尼亞的「功夫」有很多種不同的來源,包括:香港電影、後殖民國家之間的軍事交流、巡迴移民和伊斯蘭的精神知識。除了中國武術之外,日本空手道和韓國跆拳道在坦桑尼亞都早已經進入了坦桑尼亞人的生活、體育及健康習慣。這個現象表明非洲與亞洲之間長期存在的歷史聯繫以及非洲功夫人士在此現象作為推手的重要貢獻,使得「東亞」在非洲作為一種文化標誌的來源複雜化。我的研究安排有三個目標:1)追踪在東非東亞的武術歷史 2)調查身體文化(body cultures)的翻譯,3)更好理解坦桑尼亞文化生產者如何將武術元素加入電影製作。其研究項目將有助於了解「亞非遺產」文化生產的各種元素及其來源。


學歷
  • 美國布朗大學人類學博士(2017)
  • 美國芝加哥大學社會科學碩士 (2010)
  • 美國芝加哥大學社會科學學士 (2007)

現職
  • 中央研究院民族學研究所副研究員 (2024.03.12~)

  • 中央研究院民族學研究所助研究員 (2018.10.01 - 2024.03.11)
  • 美國賓夕法尼亞大學Wolf Humanities Center博士後 (2018.8.1--2018.9.19)
  • 美國布蘭迪斯大學人類學講師 (2017.8.16-2018.5.31)

  • 2018 Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council (AAS-CIAC) Small Grant
  • 2014 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
  • 2014 Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
  • 2013 Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

研究專長
  • 全球想像、帝國、不平等、跨國主義與移民、倫理、語言符號學、關係性、非洲-中國關係、台灣研究、政治人類學、經濟人類學、知識生產的政治、台灣的人類學歷史

研究區域
  • 中非關係,(全球)中國,坦桑尼亞,東非, 印度海, 臺灣

  • Association for Asian Studies China and Inner Asia Council (AAS-CIAC) Small Grant (2018)
  • Watson Institute for International Studies Interdisciplinary Opportunity and Fellowship (2016-17)
  • National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant (2014)
  • Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (2014-15)
  • Watson Institute Graduate Fieldwork Travel Grant (2014)
  • Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (SSRC-DPDF) (2013)
  • National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship for the Brown University Graduate Program in Development (GPD) (2013-14)

著作目錄

    • 謝力登、楊孟軒, 2024, 《冷戰下的「臺灣研究」:北美人類學家訪問紀錄》 [Studying Taiwan Before Taiwan Studies: American Anthropologists in Cold War Taiwan]. [Co-edited with Dominic Meng-hsuan Yang and Tseng Wen-liang]. Taipei: Institute of Taiwan History.
    • 2024
      Derek Sheridan, 2024, 〈「透過臺灣」?閱讀冷戰時代美國在臺灣的「中國人類學」〉 [Looking Through Taiwan? Reading the Cold War US Anthropology of China in Taiwan]. 《臺灣人類學刊》[Taiwan Journal of Anthropology] 22(2): 197-250.
    • 2022
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, “Diplomats, Activists, and the Hauntology of American Empire in Martial Law Taiwan”, <I>International Journal of Taiwan Studies</I>, 5, 87-111.
    • 2022
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, “The Semiotics of Heiren: Discontent, Everyday Knowledge Production, and Discursive Complicity among the Chinese in Tanzania”, <I>JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES</I>, Online Version, 1-19. (SSCI) (IF: 3.53; SSCI ranking: 36.7%,10.5%)
    • 2022
      Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, <u>Derek Sheridan</u>, 2022, ““Even if the Chinese Grow Wings and Fly”: Recasting Martial Arts in a Tanzanian Karate Dojo”, <I>Anthropology and Humanism</I>, 47(1), 39-54.
    • 2022
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, ““We are now the same”: Chinese Wholesalers and the Politics of Trade Hierarchies in Tanzania”, <I>China Quarterly</I>, 250, 376-396. (SSCI) (IF: 2.231; SSCI ranking: 13.1%)
    • 2019
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “Weak Passports and Bad Behavior: Chinese Migrants and the Moral Politics of Petty Corruption in Tanzania”, <I>AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST</I>, 46(2), 137-149. (SSCI, H-Index 68) (IF: 1.906; SSCI ranking: 33.3%)
    • 2018
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “"If You Greet Them on the Street, They Ignore You": Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs, (Refused) Greetings, and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in Tanzania.”, <I>ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY</I>, 91(1), 237-265. (SSCI) (IF: 0.853; SSCI ranking: 73.1%)
    • 2016
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, ““Uncle Sam Said Very Clearly You Are Not a Country”: Independence Activists and the Mapping of Imperial Cosmologies in Taiwan”, <I>Verge: Studies in Global Asias</I>, 2(2), 115-137.
    • 2024
      Derek Sheridan, 2024, “Economic Development and Africa’s Diplomatic and Grassroots Relations with China and Taiwan.” Switching Diplomatic Recognition between Taiwan and China: Economic and Social Impacts. Chien-hui Wu and Wen-Chin Wu, eds. Milton Park, UK: Routledge.
    • 2023
      Derek Sheridan, accepted, “Culture and Nation”, editor(s): Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, <I>Encyclopedia of Taiwan Studies</I>, Brill.
    • 2022
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, “Pre-Histories of China-Tanzania: Intermediaries, Sub-Empires, and the Use and Abuse of Analogy”, editor(s): Lisa Rofel, Carlos Rojas, <I>New World Orderings: China and the Global South</I>, pp. 58-74, Durham: Duke University Press.
    • 2021
      謝力登,2021,〈巴博德(Burton Pasternak) 口述歷史〉,黃宣衞編,《臺灣兩個閩客村落的親屬與社區:新附作者口述史及田野地現況》,頁213-232,苗栗縣:客家委員會客家文化發展中心。
    • 2018
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “Chinese Peanuts and Chinese Machinga: The Use and Abuse of a Rumor in Dar es Salaam (and Ethnographic Writing)”, editor(s): Chris Alden and Dan Large, <I>New Directions in the Study of Africa and China</I>, pp. 145-159, Oxford, UK: Routledge.
    • 2016
      Derek Sheridan, Chih-Ming Liang,2016,〈對台灣研究 “So What” 問題的深思:從北美學術市場結構反省 NATSA 發展策略〉(Considering the “So What” Question in Taiwan Studies: Reflecting on NATSA’s Development Strategy from the Perspective of the North American Academic Market),潘美玲編,《跨界跨代的臺灣研究-北美 灣研究學會(NATSA)二十年》,頁185-208,高雄,台灣:巨流圖書公司。
    • 2020-12
      Derek Sheridan, 2020, “The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa”, <I>Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute</I>, 26(4), 888-889.
    • 2019-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization”, <I>H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and the Social Sciences</I>, November 2019.
    • 2017
      Derek Sheridan, 2017, “The Image of the Black in African and Asian Art [Book Review]”, <I>Notes and Records: An International Journal of African and African Diaspora Studies</I>, (3).
    • 2016-06
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, “China’s Second Continent: How a Million Migrants are Building a New Empire in Africa [Book Review]”, <I>African Review of Economics and Finance</I>, 8(1), 156-159.
    • 2017
      Derek Sheridan, 2017, “Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania”.
    • 2024-09
      Derek Sheridan, 2024, “在斯瓦希里海岸繪製武術系譜:「Karate Combat」及其起源的爭議”, paper presented at 台灣人類學與民族學年會。 臺東大學。2024年9月28日-2024年9月29日。
    • 2024-07
      Derek Sheridan, 2024, “Mapping an East Asian Martial Arts Heritage in East Africa.” , paper presented at AAS-in-Asia. Yogyakarta, Indonesia. July 9-11, 2024.
    • 2024-06
      Derek Sheridan, 2024, “Mapping Martial Arts Geneologies in Tanzania.” , paper presented at The Encounter of Africa and Chinese Culture. Fu Jen University. June 20-21.
    • 2023-10
      Derek Sheridan, 2023, “The Lessons of War.” , paper presented at Annual Conference of the Taiwan Society for Ethnology and Anthropology. Oct 23, 2023.
    • 2023-06
      Derek Sheridan, 2023, “Debating “Imperialism” as Moral Critique: Development and Capitalist Normativity in Africa- China Studies.” , paper presented at Ethnographies of Global China and the Geopolitics of Theorizing World Order. Institute of Ethnology, June 8, 2023.
    • 2022-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, “After Dollar Diplomacy: Africa-Taiwan Relations from Below During the Africa-China Moment”, paper presented at <I>African Studies Association 65th Annual Meeting</I>, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: African Studies Association, 2022-11-17 ~ 2022-11-19.
    • 2022-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, “Tensions Of Friendship: Interpreting Interdependence And (Non)-interference In Sino-Tanzanian Relations”, paper presented at <I>Anthropological Association Annual Meeting 2022</I>, Seattle: American Anthropological Association, 2022-11-09 ~ 2022-11-13.
    • 2022-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, “The Discourse of “Empire” as Moral Critique: Unpacking a Controversial Theoretical Object in Africa-China Studies”, paper presented at <I>再見「帝國」 與「諸眾」:歷史與社會的批判性重訪-2022台灣社會研究學會年會</I>, 網路: 台灣社會研究學會, 2022-11-12 ~ 2022-11-13.
    • 2022-10
      Derek Sheridan, 2022, “The Discourse of “Empire” as Moral Critique: Unpacking a Controversial Theoretical Object in China-Africa Studies. Ethnographies of (Global) China and the Geopolitics of Theorizing World Order”, paper presented at <I>East Asian Anthropology Association Annual Conference</I>, National Chengchi University: East Asian Anthropology Association, 2022-10-15 ~ 2022-10-16.
    • 2021-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2021, “The Discourse of “Empire” as Moral Critique: Unpacking a Controversial Theoretical Object in China-Africa Studies”, paper presented at <I>121st Meeting of the American Anthropological Association</I>, Baltimore, MD: American Anthropological Association, 2021-11-17 ~ 2021-11-21.
    • 2021-11
      Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, <u>Derek Sheridan</u>, 2021, “The Discourse of “Empire” as Moral Critique: Unpacking a Controversial Theoretical Object in China-Africa Studies”, paper presented at <I>64th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association</I>, Virtual Event: African Studies Association, 2021-11-16 ~ 2021-11-20.
    • 2021-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2021, ““If even the Chinese grew wings and flew”: Mapping Martial Arts Genealogies on the Swahili Coast”, paper presented at <I>APAD 2021</I>, Lome, Togo: Association pour l’anthropologie du changement social et du développement, 2021-11-29 ~ 2021-12-03.
    • 2021-08
      Derek Sheridan, 2021, ““You have to trust them”: Countervailing Relational Tendencies among Chinese Migrants in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>The 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars</I>, Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Seika University, International Institute for Asian Studies, International Convention of Asia Scholars, 2021-08-24 ~ 2021-08-28.
    • 2021-07
      Derek Sheridan, 2021, “Developing in Africa: Chinese Migrants to Africa and the Imagined Geography of Uneven Development”, paper presented at <I>6th Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Online Mini-Symposium: Ethnographies of Mobility: Circular Migration and Uneven Geographies</I>, Hong Kong: Centre for Cultural Research and Development, 2021-07-02.
    • 2021-04
      Derek Sheridan, 2021, “The Discourse of Empire as Moral Critique: Translating ‘Chinese Imperialism’ between Sinophone and African Contexts”, paper presented at <I>Inaugural Biennial Conference of The Society of Sinophone Studies</I>, Los Angeles: The Society of Sinophone Studies, 2021-04-22 ~ 2021-04-24.
    • 2021-03
      Derek Sheridan, 2021, ““The Geopolitics of Race in China-Africa Studies.” Race, Racialization, and Antiracism”, paper presented at <I>AAS 2021 Virtual Conference</I>, virtual: Association for Asian Studies, 2021-03-24.
    • 2020-12
      Derek Sheridan,2020,〈Why Taiwan Mattered? Reading the Oral Histories of the US Cold War Anthropology of China in Taiwan〉,發表於Why Taiwan,Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica:Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica,2020-12-15 ~ 2020-12-16。
    • 2020-09
      謝力登,2020,〈『去非洲發展』:中國人移民到非洲和全球發展不平衡的地理想象〉,發表於2020 Annual Conference of the Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology,國立暨南國際大學:Taiwan Society for Anthropology and Ethnology,2020-09-26 ~ 2020-09-27。
    • 2019-12
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, ““An Immense Accumulation of Commodities”: The Global Labor of Distribution and the Politics of Trade Hierarchies between China and Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>Global China in Comparative Perspective</I>, Taipei, Taiwan: Global Asia Research Center, National Taiwan University and Department of Sociology, Academia Sinica, 2019-12-18 ~ 2019-12-20.
    • 2019-11
      Derek Sheridan,2019,〈Becoming Swahili? Chinese among Others in Coastal Tanzania〉,發表於the 10th International Conference of International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas,Guangzhou, China:International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas,2019-11-09 ~ 2019-11-10。
    • 2019-11
      Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, Derek Sheridan, 2019, ““If even the Chinese grow wings and fly”: Mapping Martial Arts Genealogies on the Swahili Coast”, paper presented at <I>African Study Association 62th Annual Meeting</I>, Boston, USA: African Study Association, 2019-11-21 ~ 2019-11-23.
    • 2019-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, ““You have to trust them”: Countervailing Relational Tendencies among Chinese Migrants in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>South-South Encounters: The Politics of interactions among Africans and Chinese on the Ground</I>, Vancouver, Canada: Simon Fraser University, 2019-11-19.
    • 2019-08
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “The Semiotics of ‘Heiren’ (黑人): Race, Everyday Language, and Discursive Complicities in a Chinese Migrant Community”, paper presented at <I>Society of East Asian Anthropology Regional Conference 2019</I>, Tokyo, Japan: Society of East Asian Anthropology, 2019-08-02 ~ 2019-08-03.
    • 2019-08
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “Wachina, Wahindi, and the Vanishing Figure of “Asian” Intermediaries in South-South Imaginaries”, paper presented at <I>The 2019 Annual Conference of the Center for Global Asia</I>, Shanghai, China: Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai, 2019-08-26 ~ 2019-08-28.
    • 2019-08
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “種族”, paper presented at <I>The Social Lives of Keywords</I>, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica: Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, 2019-08-02 ~ 2019-08-03.
    • 2019-07
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “"An Immense Accumulation of Commodities”: The Global Labor of Distribution and the Politics of Trade Hierarchies between China and Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>Chinese Global Engagement Aboard: Changing Social, Economic and Political Configurations</I>, Hong Kong, China: French Centre for Research on Contemporary China, 2019-07-05 ~ 2019-07-06.
    • 2019-05
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “Empire or Empires? Taiwan Studies and the Dilemma of Critical Discourse”, paper presented at <I>NATSA 2019 Opening Forum: Engaging Empires through Border Crossing: Taiwan Studies and Beyond, Destabilizing Empires from the Margin: Taiwan Studies in Reflection</I>, Seattle, WA, USA: NATSA, 2019-05-17 ~ 2019-05-18.
    • 2018-12
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “When Martial Arts Diplomacy Meets the Kung Fu Histories of the Swahili Coast”, paper presented at <I>5th Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Conference</I>, Solvay Brussels School for Economics and Management (Belgium): the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 2018-12-12 ~ 2018-12-14.
    • 2018-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “Zhongzu”, paper presented at <I>118th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association</I>, San Jose, CA, USA: American Anthropological Association, 2018-11-14 ~ 2018-11-18.
    • 2018-09
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “Rethinking Traditionalism: Myron Cohen and the Place of Ethnography in the Study of Taiwan’s History”, paper presented at <I>3rd World Congress of Taiwan Studies</I>, Academia Sinica: Academia Sinica, 2018-09-06 ~ 2018-09-08.
    • 2018-06
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, ““If You Greet Them, They Ignore You: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs, (Refused) Greetings, and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>Global Encounters: Transnational Mobility within and Beyond China</I>, Beijing, China: Minzu University of China, 2018-06-23 ~ 2018-06-24.
    • 2018-06
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, ““If you Greet Them, they Ignore You”: Chinese Migrants, (Refused) Greetings, and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>Articulating China-Africa Relations</I>, Guangzhou, China: Sun Yat-Sen University, 2018-06-09.
    • 2018-05
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “Everyday Orientalism? Speech, Sincerity and the Politics of Everyday Knowledge Production in Sino-Tanzanian Encounters”, paper presented at <I>CFP, Orientalism, Neo-Orientalism, and Post-Orientalism in African, Middle East, Latin American, Asian/Chinese Studies</I>, Shanghai, China: Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University, 2018-05-17 ~ 2018-05-18.
    • 2018-04
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “Weak Passports and Low-Quality People: Chinese Expatriates and the Moral Politics of Petty Corruption in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>Lecture for National Chengchi University</I>, Taipei, Taiwan: Department of Ethnography, National Chengchi University, 2018-04-03.
    • 2018-03
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “Weak Passports and Problematic People: Chinese Expatriates and the Moral Politics of Petty Corruption in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>2018 Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies</I>, Washington, D.C., USA: Association for Asian Studies, 2018-03-22 ~ 2018-08-25.
    • 2018-01
      Derek Sheridan, 2018, “Race/Zhongzu”, paper presented at <I>The Chinese English Keywords Project</I>, Hong Kong, China: Chinese-English Keywords Project, 2018-01-08 ~ 2018-01-12.
    • 2017-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2017, “Weak Passports and Problematic People: Chinese Expatriates and the Moral Politics of Petty Corruption in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association</I>, Washington, D.C., USA: American Anthropological Association, 2017-11-29 ~ 2017-12-03.
    • 2017-02
      Derek Sheridan, 2017, “Commodities, Intermediaries, and the “Imperialism” of Chinese Trade in Tanzania”, paper presented at <I>Watson Institute Development and Governance Seminar</I>, Providence, RI, USA: Watson Institute, Brown University, 2017-02-08.
    • 2017-02
      Derek Sheridan, 2017, “Weak Passports and 'Low-Quality' People: Chinese and Tanzanian Encounters with a Hungry State”, paper presented at <I>Friday Speaker Series</I>, Providence, RI, USA: Department of Anthropology, Brown University, 2017-02-10.
    • 2016-12
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, ““We Are Very Friendly, But They Never Greet Us!”: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs, (Refused) Greetings, and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in a Tanzanian Marketplace”, paper presented at <I>59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association</I>, Washington, D.C., USA: African Studies Association, 2016-12-01 ~ 2016-12-03.
    • 2016-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, ““We Are Very Friendly, But They Never Greet Us!”: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs, (Refused) Greetings, and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in a Tanzanian Marketplace”, paper presented at <I>115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association</I>, Minneapolis, USA: American Anthropological Association, 2016-11-16 ~ 2016-11-20.
    • 2016-08
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, ““We Are Very Friendly, But They Never Greet Us!”: Chinese Migrant Entrepreneurs, (Refused) Greetings, and the Interpersonal Ethics of Global Inequality in a Tanzanian Marketplace.”, paper presented at <I>4th Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Conference</I>, Nairobi, Kenya: Chinese in Africa Africans in China Research Network, 2016-08-18 ~ 2016-08-20.
    • 2016-06
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, “Taiwan and the Making of America's Cold War Sinology”, paper presented at <I>22nd Annual North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) Conference</I>, Toronto, Canada: North American Taiwan Studies Association, 2016-06-10 ~ 2016-06-11.
    • 2016-05
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, “Ethnography as Agency: Speech, Sincerity, and the Politics of Everyday Knowledge Production in Sino-Tanzanian Encounters”, paper presented at <I>3rd Annual University of Pennsylvania Semiotic Anthropology Conference</I>, Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania, 2016-05-05 ~ 2016-05-06.
    • 2016-04
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, ““Uncle Sam Said Very Clearly You Are Not a Country”: Deceptions and Revelations of the Imperial Imagination in Taiwan”, paper presented at <I>Inaugural Nexus Taiwan Conference</I>, Rhode Island, USA: the Ministry of Education, Republic of China (Taiwan) and Brown University, 2016-04-07 ~ 2016-04-09.
    • 2016-02
      Derek Sheridan,2016,〈Telling the “Real” Story: Sincerity, Speech, and Suzhi in the Discourse of Sino-Tanzanian Friendship〉,發表於Columbia Conference on East Asia,New York, USA:Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University,2016-02-26 ~ 2016-02-27。
    • 2016-02
      Derek Sheridan,2016,〈Weak Passports and “Low-Quality” People: Everyday Extortion, Global Hierarchies, and How to be Chinese in Tanzania〉,發表於19th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference,Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA:Harvard University,2016-02-20 ~ 2016-02-21。
    • 2016-01
      Derek Sheridan,2016,〈Telling the “Real” Story: Sincerity, Speech, and Suzhi in the Discourse of Sino-Tanzanian Friendship〉,發表於Building Images: Exploring 21st Century Sino-African Dynamics Though Cultural Exchange, Media Representation, and Translation,Nottingham, UK:University of Nottingham & Arts and Humanities Research Council,2016-01-14 ~ 2016-01-16。
    • 2023-01-30
      謝力登,2023,〈尋找功夫的 「真正歷史」〉(Looking for the “True History” of Kung Fu),《芭樂人類學》。
    • 2022-11
      Derek Sheridan,2022,〈There and Back Again: Studying Global Imaginaries between Tanzania and Taiwan〉,《人類學視界》。
    • 2022-05
      Lin Ying-Tung, <u>Derek Sheridan</u>,2022,〈如果「未來」能開口,它會告訴我們什麼?[If the “future” could talk, what would it tell us?]〉,《C-LAB未來媒體藝術節》。
    • 2020-09-18
      Derek Sheridan, 2020, “Do China and Africa Allow Us to Bring Back the Idea of Civilization?”, <I>The News Lens</I>.
    • 2019-10-01
      Derek Sheridan, 2019, “History/Memory”, <I>2019臺灣國際民族誌影展特刊</I>, 141-148.
    • 2017-09-28
      Derek Sheridan, 2017, “Wolf Warrior Two: An African Playground for Manly Battles”, <I>Node to Node: Musings on Fieldwork</I>.
    • 2017-06-11
      Derek Sheridan, 2017, “Belts, Roads, and Non-Hegemonic Dreams”, <I>Node to Node: Musings on Fieldwork</I>.
    • 2016-06-22
      Derek Sheridan, 2016, ““Racist” or “Not-Racist”: The Better Question is Whether Racism is Being (Re)-Produced or Deconstructed in China”, <I>Node to Node: Musings on Fieldwork</I>.
    • 2014-12-02
      Derek Sheridan, 2014, “Predictable Patterning versus Historical Consciousness”, <I>Node to Node: Musings on Fieldwork</I>.
    • 2014-08-07
      Derek Sheridan, 2014, “Empire State of Mind: A Reflection on Howard French’s “China’s Second Continent.””, <I>Node to Node: Musings on Fieldwork</I>.
    • 2014-08-02
      Derek Sheridan, 2014, “Unthinking (and then Rethinking) the Relevance of “China-Africa”: Some Small Notes from the Wholesale-Retail Trade in Uganda and Tanzania”, <I>The Africa Daily</I>.

我的研究廣泛地關注在個體經驗、關係性 (relationality)和全球/地緣政治想象的關聯。我計畫中的第一本書,研究對象將會是中國跟非洲之間近年來互動之下建立的經濟關係和人口移動。我曾在很早期便跟中國有密切關係的坦桑尼亞作了總共十七個月的田野調查,針對中國人為了生意/打工而移民到坦桑尼亞的現象。在當代新興「南南合作」的政治經濟形構下,我對中國移民者的生涯規劃(life projects)和普通坦桑尼亞人的生涯規劃如何相互依存提出疑問,還有他們如何使用日常社會交流的倫理判斷來分析中非關係。我的田野調查持續關注在從中國到坦桑尼亞製成品的分配/銷售渠道)。在達累斯薩拉姆(Dar es Salaam),中國批發商的進入,跟坦桑尼亞當地批發商/零售商產生不同的競爭和合作關係。商人的地位隨著中國產品的進入而上升或衰退。我將這現象的脈絡置於更久遠的亞非連接歷史之中,並分析不同情境下充滿互補性跟矛盾性的人際關係。對比中國人(在坦桑尼亞的「客人」或「投資者」)和坦桑尼亞「主人」或 「本地人」之間的權力、弱點、道德責任,還有選擇權。這些情況,包括企業家之間的市場競爭和貿易等級制度、同事之間的不信任和相互依賴、朋友和陌生人之間物質和情感互惠的爭議、商人跟街頭官僚之間小型賄賂的倫理。我描述中國移民者和普通坦桑尼亞人如何在南南合作中動員「民族」、「文化」、「種族」、「 政治道德」和 「(非)帝國」類似的概念,並提供一種白話評論。如此,我目標在透過全球不平等的人際倫理民族誌視角,重新思考世界秩序的人類學。

 

我下一個研究項目的對象是「海上絲綢之路」及類似印度洋世界化(worlding)的背景下的亞非文化交流。雖然中國政府最近試圖在非洲以「武術」進行 “文化外交”,但是東非的東亞武術實踐早就出現了。坦桑尼亞的「功夫」有很多種不同的來源,包括:香港電影、後殖民國家之間的軍事交流、巡迴移民和伊斯蘭的精神知識。除了中國武術之外,日本空手道和韓國跆拳道在坦桑尼亞都早已經進入了坦桑尼亞人的生活、體育及健康習慣。這個現象表明非洲與亞洲之間長期存在的歷史聯繫以及非洲功夫人士在此現象作為推手的重要貢獻,使得「東亞」在非洲作為一種文化標誌的來源複雜化。我的研究安排有三個目標:1)追踪在東非東亞的武術歷史 2)調查身體文化(body cultures)的翻譯,3)更好理解坦桑尼亞文化生產者如何將武術元素加入電影製作。其研究項目將有助於了解「亞非遺產」文化生產的各種元素及其來源。

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