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Upton

Justice at the Boundaries

Mediating Reconciliation and Legal Recognition in Taiwan's Indigenous Courts

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-520-42332-9
Verlag: University of California Press
Erscheinungstermin: 07.04.2026
vorbestellbar, Erscheinungstermin ca. April 2026

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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780520423329
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-520-42332-9
  • Verlag: University of California Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 07.04.2026
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2026
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Trade Paperback
  • Seiten: 324
  • Format (B x H): 152 x 229 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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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