Tania Li
Tania Murray Li (B 8 December 1959) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto who is known for her work on labour, capitalism, development, politics and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia. She is an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Tania Li | |
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| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Cultural and economic change in the Singapore Malay community (1986) |
Education and career
Li has a B.A. (1981) and a Ph.D. (1987) from Cambridge University. After her Ph.D. Li moved to Dalhousie University where she reached the level of professor in 2002. In 2004 she moved to the University of Toronto where, in 2020, she was professor and tier one Canada Research Chair.[1]
Research
Li's early research centered on Singapore where she worked on urban politics.From 1986 until 1989 Lie worked on an environmental management project a Dalhousie University, and in a 2017 interview she described how the goals of "knowledge transfer and institution-building" made her uncomfortable.[2]
Subsequently she worked on issues within Indonesia, particularly on the culture, environmental, and economic issues of the region.[3] She works with non-governmental organizations in Indonesia, and brings people with her, including activists, for her field research in the area.[2]
Selected publications
- Li, Tania (1999). Transforming the Indonesian uplands : marginality, power, and production. Singapore: Harwood Academic Publishers. ISBN 981-230-045-7. OCLC 44613347.
- Li, Tania Murray (2000). "Articulating Indigenous Identity in Indonesia: Resource Politics and the Tribal Slot". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 42 (1): 149–179. doi:10.1017/S0010417500002632. ISSN 1475-2999. S2CID 55196506.
- Li, Tania Murray (2007-05-16). The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-8978-1.
- Li, Tania Murray (2011-03-01). "Centering labor in the land grab debate". The Journal of Peasant Studies. 38 (2): 281–298. doi:10.1080/03066150.2011.559009. hdl:1807/67583. ISSN 0306-6150. S2CID 153371124.
- Li, Tania Murray (2014). Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier. Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-5694-3. JSTOR j.ctv1131b52.[4]
- Hall, Derek; Hirsch, Philip; Li, Tania (2011). Powers of exclusion : land dilemmas in Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-3603-0. OCLC 699009457.[5]
Awards and honors
In 2015 she was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[6] In 2019 she was named a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.[7]
Li's book Land's End won the Senior Book Prize from the American Ethnological Association in 2016,[8] and the George McT. Kahin Prize prize from the Association for Asian Studies in 2017.[9]
References
- Li, Tania (14 May 2021). "University of Toronto". University Professor.
- Majumder, Atreyee (March 10, 2017). "It Can't Be Revolution: An Interview with Tania Li". Society for Cultural Anthropology. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- Transforming the Indonesian uplands : marginality, power, and production. Tania Li. Singapore: Harwood Academic Publishers. 1999. ISBN 981-230-045-7. OCLC 44613347.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Reviews for Land's End
- Lyon, Sarah (2015). "Review of Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier". Anthropological Quarterly. 88 (3): 827–830. doi:10.1353/anq.2015.0041. ISSN 0003-5491. JSTOR 43652763. S2CID 145613114.
- Rigg, Jonathan D. (2016). "Review of LAND'S END: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier". Pacific Affairs. 89 (2): 489–491. ISSN 0030-851X. JSTOR 24779679.
- Welker, Marina (2016). "Review of Land's end: capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 22 (4): 1018–1019. doi:10.1111/1467-9655.12533. ISSN 1359-0987. JSTOR 45182919.
- Reviews of Powers of Exclusion
- Middleton, Carl (2012). "Derek Hall, Philip Hirsch and Tania Murray Li, Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia". Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 33 (2): 278–281. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9493.2012.00462_6.x. ISSN 0129-7619.
- Baird, Ian (2012). "Review of Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia". The Journal of Asian Studies. 71 (2): 581–583. doi:10.1017/S0021911812000551. ISSN 0021-9118. JSTOR 23263473. S2CID 163231810.
- Glassman, Jim (2012). "Review of Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 102 (3): 733–735. doi:10.1080/00045608.2012.667729. ISSN 0004-5608. JSTOR 23275555. S2CID 129077698.
- "Member Directory | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- "Honorary Fellows". Royal Anthropological Institute. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- "2016 Winner: Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier". American Ethnological Society. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
- "Kahin Prize". Association for Asian Studies. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
External links
- Tania Li publications indexed by Google Scholar