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Dr Tobiasz Targosz

Dr Tobiasz Targosz

e-mail: tobiasz.targosz@uj.edu.pl
www: https://uj-pl.academia.edu/TobiaszTargosz
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4094-0318

 

Graduated from Jagiellonian University, the Faculty of History, majoring in history and ethnology, the Faculty of International and Political Studies, majoring in Far Eastern studies, and the Faculty of Philology, majoring in sinology. Over the course of 2010- 2023, he studied and conducted field research in both mainland China and Taiwan, as well as in Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. He is interested in marginalized groups in East and Southeast Asia.

Scholarly interests

  • Marginalized Communities in East and Southeast Asia.
  • Nationalism and Identity.
  • Social and Cultural Dimensions of Exclusion.
  • Mobility and Migration Studies.
  • Intercultural Relations.

Selected publications

  • 2023 Współczesna tajwańska literatura aborygeńska jako narzędzie ekspresji tożsamości kulturowej na przykładzie twórczości Sakinu Ahronglonga, „Perspektywy kultury”, No. 41 (2.2).
  • 2021 Symboliczne wymiary birmańskiego nacjonalizmu i polityki, 1885-2015, Kraków.
  • 2017 Never Mind the Generals. Burmese Punk Rock Scene as a Vehicle for Manifesting Changing Notions of Burmese Identity, “Prace etnograficzne”, vol. 45, No 2.
  • 2016 Burmese culture during the Colonial Period in the years 1885-1931,  “Politeja”, Human values in Intercultural Space, No.5 (44).
  • 2015 Droga do doliny D’rung, Studium chińskiego wewnętrznego kolonializmu, „Prace Etnograficzne”, vol. 43, No 4.
  • 2014 Chinese involvement in Southeast Asia on Myanmar example, w: red. Gacek, Ł., Trojnar, E., China at the beginning of the XXI century, Kraków.
  • 2013, Burmese nationalism as a form of Buddhist nationalism. Religious influences used in the Burmese policy in the period 1947-1988, w: red. Pycińska M., Wiciarz K., Nationalism and religion. Reflections on the universality of concepts and theories in the context of research in Asia and North Africa, Kraków.
  • 2012 Myanmar political culture in historical perspective,  “Humanities International”,  4th edition, Xiamen.

Research projects

  • 2024 (July – December), Fieldwork Research Grant, Seoul National University, Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, South Korea, Project title: Southeast Asian Immigrants, Students and Migrant Workers in Seoul – An Anthropological Study, Funded by: Korea Foundation, Scientific advisor: Prof. Kim Jaesok.
  • 2023, Research Project, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Project title: Southeast Asian Immigrants, Students and Migrant Workers in Kaohsiung, Taiwan and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic – An Anthropological Study, Funded by: International Visegrad Fund.
  • 2015–2016, Research Project, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Project title: Taiwan’s Policy towards Myanmar 2010–2015, Funded by: International Visegrad Fund.

Other achievements

  • 2025 (September – December), Research Internship, Migration Research & Training Centre, Seoul, South Korea; Project Title: Southeast Asian Migrants in Korea; Academic Supervisor: Prof. Juyoung Jang – Senior Public Policy Researcher, Head of Research Department
  • 2016-2017, People's Republic of China, Beijing, Minzu University of China, School of Ethnology and Sociology; Erasmus+ Doctoral Student Exchange Program, Completed Research Project: Ethnic Minorities on the Sino-Burmese Border.
  • 2013-2014, People's Republic of China, Kunming, Chinese Government Scholarship, Yunnan University; Course on Anthropology of Ethnic Minorities in Yunnan (taught in Chinese), Chinese Language Course.
  • 2012, Taiwan, Tainan, Doctoral Student Exchange, National Cheng Kung University.
  • 2010-2011, People's Republic of China, Xiamen, Chinese Government Scholarship, Xiamen University.

Hobbies

  • Hardcore/punk music,
  • travel,
  • photography.