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SUMMARY:From Scarcity to Sovereignty: Media of Abundance at Taiwan Indigen
 ous Television - Dr Eliana Ritts\, CRASSH\, Associate member\, Darwin Coll
 ege
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:In January 2025\, Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Party propose
 d sweeping budget cuts across the cultural and creative sectors\, includin
 g Taiwan Indigenous Television (TITV) — a public station by and for Taiw
 an’s diverse Indigenous peoples. Far from being an exception\, these exp
 eriences are shared by other Indigenous media broadcasters around the worl
 d\, as they navigate industries shaped by colonial values and capitalist e
 conomics of scarcity. Drawing on fieldwork with Indigenous media producers
  in Taiwan\, I suggest that producers at TITV respond to these precarities
  through what I call “media of abundance.” Inspired by emergent studie
 s of Indigenous economies of abundance in environmental contexts (Fujikane
  2021\; Kimmerer 2025)\, I theorize abundance within Taiwan’s Indigenous
  media worlds\, focusing on the daily practices of production at TITV. Fro
 m language game shows to children’s programs\, producers mediate abundan
 ce through reciprocity\, gifting\, and inclusivity\, embedding production 
 in extended kin relations with ancestors and future generations\, lands an
 d waters\, and more-than-human persons. I argue that abundance activates a
 n entwined politics of refusal and possibility: a refusal to let economies
  of scarcity define Indigenous media production\, and a commitment to prod
 ucing decolonial futures that flourish far beyond the limits of capitalist
  and colonial imaginations.
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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