Justice at the Boundaries

Mediating Reconciliation and Legal Recognition in Taiwan's Indigenous Courts
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-42332-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 153 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

Justice at the Boundaries offers a powerful ethnographic account of the transformative potential and structural limitations of Taiwan's system of ad hoc Chambers of Indigenous Courts. Drawing on immersive fieldwork in courtrooms and Indigenous communities, J. Christopher Upton examines how judges, Indigenous litigants, and cultural brokers navigate contested terrains of law, identity, and sovereignty in a legal system shaped by ongoing processes of colonialism and aspirations of multiculturalism. From invocations of Indigenous laws to appeals to international human rights norms, the book reveals how courtroom encounters become sites of cultural negotiation, resistance, and possibility. Upton shows how Taiwan's Indigenous courts and other "boundary institutions" designed to bridge Indigenous and non-Indigenous worlds both challenge and reproduce entrenched hierarchies and power dynamics. The book brings fresh methodological and conceptual tools to the study of legal pluralism, Indigenous courts, Indigenous peoples' rights, and the complex politics of Indigenous recognition in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Upton, J. Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsList of Maps and IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote to the ReaderIntroduction: Of Courts and Ancestral Spirits1 • Born of Wood, Born of Stone2 • Orders in the Court3 • Ethereal Presences of the Ad Hoc Chambers4 • One Community, Two Controversies5 • Hybrid Practices and Legal Indigeneities6 • Boundary Institutions and BeyondGlossary of Terms in English, Pinyin, and Chinese CharactersNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

J. Christopher Upton is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Temple University.