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- Title
Justice, Emotion, and Belonging: Legal Consciousness in a Taiwanese Family Conflict.
- Authors
Wang, Hsiao‐Tan
- Abstract
This case study of a family conflict in Taiwan explores how legal consciousness is emotionally driven, intersubjective, and dependent on relational factors that are deeply connected to an individual's perception of the self–other relationship and affinity therein. As the members of the Lee family negotiated emotionally on issues involving elder care and inheritance, their adoption of law was at times absent, at others influential, but always shaped by certain Chinese concepts such as zìjǐrén (自己人), which constitute the emotional complex of belonging in Taiwan. This cultural patterning identifies a person as included, accepted, and respected by the group and when in conflict, is the driving force behind a disputants' pursuit of an identity that places them on moral high ground as a form of justice. Rather than depending on rational decision making or legal norms, their legal consciousness was determined by the sense of self, rectitude, emotion, and subjectivity.
- Subjects
TAIWAN; FAMILY conflict laws; FAMILY relations -- Law &; legislation; ADOPTION laws; EMOTIONS; ELDER care
- Publication
Law & Society Review, 2019, Vol 53, Issue 3, p764
- ISSN
0023-9216
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lasr.12422