本文將探討一個新的少數政治，其間族群被理解成是多元文化表現的根源， 而民主則提供了這些具有創造性的與另類想像的文化表現的舞臺。這個把族群 視為是想像異質性的創造過程的看法，將民主推展至Charles Taylor所說的「承 認政治」的階段。本文將探討臺灣社會裏的兩個有關族群承認政治的案例：其一 是有關邦再人的部落主義實踐，本文重新挖掘了一段令人震驚的且被湮滅的過 去。其二則是常被筆者稱為「客家基進主義」的文化復振，顯現出臺灣漢族認同 的異質性。在這兩個案例裏，筆者都發現某種形式的族群之夢。在這些夢裏， 長期遺失的文化價值從過去陰影裏重新被激盪出來。而在這些激盪裏，承認政 治是日常的意義再造過程，其中總有很多具爆發性的文化遭遇。本文談論夢的 過程，試圓尋找與定位這些認同政治裏的未知力量。

This article investigates a new minority politics in which ethnicity is metaphored into a multiplicity of expression and democracy is seen as a space for creatively unorthodox imaginations and appeals. The creation of ethnicity as imagined alterity moves democracy into the phase of what Charles Taylor calls the “politics of recognition”
This article documents two ethnic recognition struggles in Taiwan. One is about an aboriginal Pangcah tribe whose tribalism had uncovered a long-buried memory and whose exposure would have been explosively disconcerting. The other one is about what I would call a Hakka radicalism whose recent formation showed the heterogeneity of a Han Chinese identity. I find in both cases an ethnic “dream” in which the recognition of long-lost cultural values was a creation in the face of a past in the shadows. Recognition was a process of daily reinvented acknowledgements of a shadowed tradition under the effects of unrecognizable cultural confrontations. There are always unthought, unspoken, and unexperienced forces out there that need to be dealt with in this politics of recognition. The dreams which this article explores seek to encounter and locate these unrecognizable forces of identity politics.