Justice at the Boundaries: Mediating Reconciliation and Legal Recognition in Taiwan's Indigenous Courts - Softcover

Upton, J. Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520423321 ISBN 13: 9780520423329

Verlag: University of California Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

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.
 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0520423321
• ISBN 13: 9780520423329
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 324
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