THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
presents
a seminar
What Does Law Look Like in the Taiwanese Street?
And What Does this Mean About Taiwanese Democracy
In this lecture, I use data from my ongoing ethnographic studies of policing to explore
some of the ways legal authority becomes figured in to the everyday routines of
community order-management and social reproduction in contemporary Taiwan. I
contextualize these findings by reference to various literatures that have addressed the
multiple and diverse ways that law and legal institutions have been caught up in Taiwan's
democratic reforms and political liberalization. My overall purpose is to clarify the specific
and unique contribution that an anthropology of policing can make to our understanding
of the cultural mechanisms shaping the historical development of Taiwanese society.
by
Dr. Jeffrey Martin
4:00-5:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Rm 1118, K.K. Leung Building
The University of Hong Kong
ALL ARE WELCOME
Dr. Jeffrey Martin is an anthropologist specializing in the study of modern policing. He has a PHD from the
University of Chicago, and has taught at Taiwan's Central Police University, and the Graduate Institute of
Taiwan Studies at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan. He will begin an appointment in HKU's
Department of Sociology next year.