Full Description
This book draws attention to the issues of Indigenous justice and reconciliation in Taiwan, exploring how Indigenous actors affirm their rights through explicitly political and legal strategies, but also through subtle forms of justice work in films, language instruction, museums, and handicraft production.
Taiwan's Indigenous peoples have been colonized by successive external regimes, mobilized into war for Imperial Japan, stigmatized as primitive "mountain compatriots" in need of modernization, and instrumentalized as proof of Taiwan's unique identity vis-à-vis China. Taiwan's government now encapsulates them in democratic institutions of indigeneity. This volume emphasizes that there is new hope for real justice in an era in which states and Indigenous peoples seek meaningful forms of reconciliation at all levels and arenas of social life. The chapters, written by leading Indigenous, Taiwanese, and international scholars in their respective fields, examine concrete situations in which Indigenous peoples seek justice and decolonization from the perspectives of territory and sovereignty, social work and justice.
Illustrating that there is new hope for real justice in an era in which states and Indigenous peoples seek meaningful forms of reconciliation, this book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of Taiwan Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Social Justice Studies.
Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: Understanding historical (in)justice, while moving toward Indigenous justice and reconciliation
JOLAN HSIEH AND SCOTT E. SIMON
PART 1
Territory and sovereignty
2 Demarcation of Indigenous traditional territories: A wrong turn toward reconciliation
LIN SHU-YA
3 Extractive industry, traditional territory, and the politics of natural resources in Taiwan: The history and political economy of Indigenous land struggles in the Taroko area
CHEN YI-FONG
4 Indigenous toponyms under the state policy of the standardization of geographical names
PETER KANG
5 Hunting rights, justice, and reconciliation: Indigenous experiences in Taiwan and Canada
SCOTT E. SIMON
6 Courts and Indigenous reconciliation: Positivism, the a priori, and justice in Taiwan
J. CHRISTOPHER UPTON
PART 2
Social work
7 Carrying historical trauma: Alcohol use and healing among Indigenous communities in Taiwan
CIWANG TEYRA AND HSIEH (WENDY) WAN-JUNG
8 Indigenous social work and transitional justice in Taiwan
KUI KASIRISIR (HSU CHUN-TSAI)
9 Across separate spheres in transitional justice: Comparison of marital quality between Han and Tayal groups in the Yilan area
SHU-CHUAN LAI
PART 3
Justice from the classroom to the museum
10 Flux, vision, voice, survival: On a decolonizing filmmaking practice in Taiwan
ANITA WEN-SHIN CHANG
11 Toward reconciliation and educational justice: Employing culturally sustaining pedagogy in an introductory linguistics course
APAY AI-YU TANG
12 How we can exhibit the "other" culture: The process of understanding Indigenous Taiwanese peoples in a Japanese museum
ATSUSHI NOBAYASHI
13 Recreating the beauty of glass beads: A case study on the multicolor patterned beads of Paiwan
YU-HSIN WANG
Index
