For Someday We’ll Be Loved Again: Transition of Transitional Justice and Indigenous People in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chung-Wei Yu, 余崇維
• Other Authors: Yi-fong Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4fct9d

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 民族事務與發展學系 === 107 === Through theoretical approach and empirical approach, this thesis illustrates the development of transitional justice in 2016, while President Tsai’s administration reinstated the post-authoritarian transitional justice and announced a new agenda of indigenous transitional justice. To anchor and understand the various concerns of different types of traditional justice, this thesis firstly deals with the various definitions and understandings of “transition” and “injustice” as two primal axes. Second, this study attempts to demonstrate individual responsibility as an alternative thought for re-conceptualizing transitional justice, instead of emphasizing state’s responsibility. Third, this thesis examines the actual cases through the concept of intersectionality and points out that the effect of transitional justice may increase the sufferings of the disadvantaged under the unequal social structure. Fourth, this thesis argues that the indigenous transitional justice has become the primary concern of the agenda of transitional justice in 2016 due to the politicians’ strategic concern of changing the geopolitical situation. Finally, by examining the rhetoric of politicians, this study claims that ethnic politics is a vital perspective for discussing transitional justice and the indigenous transitional justice. Further, the rhetoric of ethnic politics can be useful in identifying resentment between different ethnic groups. The dynamics of ethnic politics may point to ideal social relations, while paradoxically lead to resentment, which points to many problems not yet resolved. Therefore, rather than denying emotions in transitional justice, this thesis demonstrates that it is necessary to relocate the position and the purpose of emotions in the analysis of transitional justice.