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.
Author(s): Scott E. Simon, Jolan Hsieh, Peter Kang
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 282
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Understanding historical (in)justice, while moving toward Indigenous justice and reconciliation
Taiwanese indigenous history: a brief introduction
Exploring the concept of transitional justice
The basics of transitional justice
Locating Justice and Injustice through the theories of Iris M. Young
Transitional justice in Taiwan
The PingPu peoples’ indigenous status and rights claims
About this book
Notes
References
Part 1: Territory and sovereignty
Chapter 2: Demarcation of Indigenous traditional territories: A wrong turn toward reconciliation
Requirements for confirming Traditional Territories
Indigenous Lands
Indigenous Reserved Lands
Traditional Territories of Indigenous Peoples
Problems caused by un-demarcated Traditional Territories
Controversy over the demarcation of traditional territories
Simplifying the concept of Traditional Territory as property-like and with a rigid borderline
Emphasizing the veto power and neglecting the procedural justice function of the consultation and consent rights
Misinterpreting Indigenous collective rights and private property rights as mutually exclusive
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 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
Indigenous peoples and the origins of land-related protest
Indigenous people and the politics of natural resources
The political economy of land rights struggles
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Indigenous toponyms under the state policy of the standardization of geographical names
Introduction
The rights of Indigenous peoples and the indigenous place names in Taiwan
Hualien County and the SGN meetings
Laws and regulations for SGNs and the indigenous place names designed by the CIP
Standard geographical name controversy
The popularity of Chinese and the dilemma of bilingualism
The case of Tianxiang vs. Tpdu
Observations
Discussion and conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5: Hunting rights, justice, and reconciliation: Indigenous experiences in Taiwan and Canada
Introduction
Dxgal Truku (Truku Territory)
The meaning of hunting and ecological knowledge
Gaya: Truku understandings of hunting
Learning from hunters
Canada
Ä sì Keyi (“My grandfather’s country”): Kluane First Nation
Eeyou Istchee (“Land of the People”): the James Bay Cree
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Chapter 6: Courts and Indigenous reconciliation: Positivism, the a priori, and justice in Taiwan
Introduction
Three recent cases: matters of wood, guns, and wildlife
The Smangus Beechwood Case
The Paiwan Gun Case
The Bunun Hunting Case
Indigenous peoples in the legal consciousness
A path forward? Representation, knowledge, and autonomy
Notes
References
Part 2: Social work
Chapter 7: Carrying historical trauma: Alcohol use and healing among Indigenous communities in Taiwan
Introduction
Indigenous peoples’ health and alcohol use in Taiwan
Determinants of alcohol use among Indigenous peoples in Taiwan
Historical Trauma and its impact on alcohol use among global Indigenous communities
Historical traumatic events
Responses to historical traumatic events
Historical trauma transmission
Drinking has become a stress coping strategy
A series of historical traumatic events and historical losses
Forced relocation and family separation
Prohibition of traditional and cultural practices
Forcing Indigenous peoples to use Chinese names
Mandarin speaking policy
Prohibition of traditional hunting practices
Emotions and alcohol use associated with historical traumatic events and losses
Reinforcing historical trauma: ongoing oppression and interpersonal discrimination
Healing historical trauma: cultural practices
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Note
References
Chapter 8: Indigenous social work and transitional justice in Taiwan
Introduction
The development of social work in Taiwan and its relevance to the Indigenous peoples
The Report on the “Plan for the Establishment and Development of an Indigenous Social Work System in Taiwan” and relevant issues
Transitional justice and Indigenous social work for the Indigenous peoples of Taiwan
Conclusion – developing Indigenous social work in accordance with the ideas of transitional justice
Notes
References
Chapter 9: Across separate spheres in transitional justice: Comparison of marital quality between Han and Tayal groups in the Yilan area
Introduction
The historical review of Han and Tayal families in Yilan
The traditional family system and gender relations in Han and Tayal cultures
The socioeconomic situation and gender relations in contemporary society
Research framework
Theoretical framework
Research methdology
Data
Sampling
Measures
Dependent variable: marital quality
Independent variables
Data analysis
Research findings
The variation of marital quality by gender and ethnicity
Marital quality factors with culture-bound features
Discussion and conclusion
Limitation of the study
Notes
References
Part 3: Justice from the classroom to the museum
Chapter 10: Flux, vision, voice, survival: On a decolonizing filmmaking practice in Taiwan
Prologue
Essay on editing
Flux
Vision
Voice
Survival
Ending
Editing and the interval
Coda
Notes
References
Chapter 11: Toward reconciliation and educational justice: Employing culturally sustaining pedagogy in an introductory linguistics course
Introduction
Motivation
Theoretical orientation
Culturally sustaining pedagogy/CSP
Social justice pedagogy
Activity Theory/AT
CSP implementation
The introductory linguistics course
Participants
Course objectives
Structure and content of the course
Results of the CSP implementation
Reflections of the instructor
Survey
Interviews
Developing sociopolitical consciousness
Senses of self, ethnic identities, and achievement
Sense of agency
Engaging learners through experiences of serving the needs of a community as defined by the community
Developing self-determination through engagement
Appreciating other linguistic and cultural properties
Discussion
Concluding remarks
Notes
References
Chapter 12: How we can exhibit the “other” culture: The process of understanding Indigenous Taiwanese peoples in a Japanese museum
Introduction
The first exhibitions on the Indigenous Taiwanese peoples at Minpaku
Special and thematic exhibitions on Taiwanese materials
Takasagozoku in the exhibits
The return of Indigenous Taiwanese culture to the permanent exhibit at Minpaku
A new exhibition on the “Culture of Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples” at Minpaku
Summary
Notes
References
Chapter 13: Recreating the beauty of glass beads: A case study on the multicolor patterned beads of Paiwan
Introduction
Etymology in Han history
The myths of Paiwan glass beads
The re-manufacture at Eastern Paiwan studios
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
