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Full-Time Associate Professor

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Essex, UK

Economic Sociology, Sociology of Market, Sociology of Consumption, Solidarity Economy, Neoliberalism, Alternative Food Networks, Karl Polanyi

Society Design, Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking and Problem Solving

Profile

Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Public Affairs and Social Innovation Feng Chia University, Taiwan (2020-)

Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Public Affairs and Social Innovation Feng Chia University, Taiwan (2016-2020)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (2016-2018)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for China Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan (2014-2016)
Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University (2008~09)

Recruitment of Extraordinary Talent Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2017)
Travel Award by EHESS France-Japan Foundation, for presenting paper at Society for the Advancement of Social Economics annual conference, (2014)
Travel Grant for Young Overseas Scholar, Japan Sociological Society, (2012)
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, by Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation (2012-2013)
Scholarship for Studying Abroad, by Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2009~11)
Small Research Grants for conferences, Department of Sociology, University of Essex

台湾食农网络的发展与环保消费，北京農夫市集，集室--北京有机农夫市集社区中心，April 19^th 2018
“你買的是小確幸，還是永續? 團結力量大，消費者站出來”, talk delivered at 人文講堂, 大愛電視台, May, 27^th, 2017
“減重到減碳: 消費的社會經濟”, talk gave at Sociology Department, National Chengchi University, December 19^th, 2016

Publications

Wahn I-Liang “A social economy approach to sustainable consumption: Alternative food networks in Taiwan” (Revise and Resubmit), Consumption Markets & Culture, (SSCI, IF: 2.232)
萬尹亮 (2018) 在社運和市場之間的北京食農團體，庶民文化研究，第18期
Wahn, I-Liang “Instituting the self-regulating consumer: Fake Fighters, Netizens, and rights’ defenders in China”, The Sociological Quarterly, (Accepted) (SSCI, IF: 1.61; 54/143 in Sociology)
Wahn, I-Liang “The relations between the state and consumers and institutional dynamics in East Asian consumer capitalism”, Journal of Consumer Culture (Accepted) (SSCI, IF: 3.579; Cultural Studies 1 out of 39 | Sociology 4 out of 143)
Wahn, I-Liang (2015) “The Transformation of consumer movements through democratization and the development of civil society in Taiwan”, the International Journal of Consumer Studies, 39 (5), Pg. 506-514 (SSCI, IF: 1.293)
Wahn, I-Liang “Consumer Mobilization in China: Policy or Movement?” Graduate Journal of Sociology, University of Essex, issue 12, pp.46-58, 2012 (有審查制度)
Wahn, I-Liang “Variety of Consumerism and East Asia” Graduate Journal of Sociology, University of Essex, issue 11, pp.5-14, 2011 (有審查制度)

Wahn I-Liang (2016) “Trusting, Qualification, and Practices in Alternative Food Networks in Taiwan”. Young Scholar Workshop, European Research Center for Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tubingen, Germany, http://www.ercct.uni-tuebingen.de/AdTXP/index.php?s=file_download&id=267
Wahn, I-Liang “Imagining consumer publics: a comparison of consumer activism in China and consumer movement in Taiwan”, Working Paper on Chinese society and institutions, Center for China Studies, National Chengchi University, Taiwan https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3PkJoeeu227QjZycEtSdDZJYXM/view?pref=2&pli=1

Wahn, I-Liang (2018) Quality in alternative food movements: Solidarity or sustainable consumption, Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics Conference, Kyoto Japan, 23-25 June
萬尹亮 (2017) 永續消費的社會經濟過程：樹合苑個案, 台灣社會學年會, 輔仁大學, 11/25-11/26
Wahn, I-Liang (2017) Solidarity and practices of sustainable consumption: analysising a consumer cooperative in Taiwan, the 14th International Karl Polanyi Conference, South Korea on 12-14 October
Wahn I-Liang (2017) Exploring a social economy approach to sustainable consumption: Polanyian perspective on AFNs in Taiwan, European Sociological Association Bi-annual conference, Athens, Greece 29 Aug. - 1 Sept.
Wahn I-Liang (2016) “Trusting, Qualification, and Practices in Alternative Food Networks in Taiwan”. Young Scholar Workshop, European Research Center for Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tubingen, Germany, June 27^th

Community or market: reflections on alternative food networks in Beijing，Know your Food: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI0NDk2NTM2MQ==&mid=2247485024&idx=1&sn=19ec0561bdf49f79d5813d133e47c89d
Sustainable consumption: the social processes that cannot be replaced by electronic businesses, Know your Food: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qmceWCYn7M-jJ5bd8Y91cg
The stories of three consumer organizations—social imagination of the consumer， Street Corner Sociology, a blog by Taiwan Sociology Association to promote sociology to the public)，08/26/2015 http://twstreetcorner.org/2015/08/26/waniliang/

Research & Teaching

Teaching at ISTM in Fall 2018/Spring 2019

“Sustainable consumption in Alternative Food Networks: comparing Taiwan and China”, research project funded by MOST, Taiwan 2017-2018, 106-2410-H-035-001-MY2
Travel Grant, 2nd EMES-Polanyi Seminar, funded by MOST, Taiwan, 2016, 105-2914-I-004 -013 -A1
Travel grant, Young Scholar Workshop, European Research Center for Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tubingen, German (2016)