Justice at the Boundaries

Mediating Reconciliation and Legal Recognition in Taiwan's Indigenous Courts

J. Christopher Upton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2026
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-42332-9 (ISBN)

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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 negotiate 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. Framing Taiwan's Indigenous courts as "boundary institutions," Upton shows how 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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	14 b-w illustrations, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-42332-1 / 0520423321
ISBN-13	978-0-520-42332-9 / 9780520423329
Zustand	Neuware