The Cultural Governance of Historical District Redevelopment: A Case Study of Yancheng, Kaohsiung

• Main Authors: Wei-Cheng Chen, 陳韋丞
• Other Authors: Yen-Wen Peng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/p863q8

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 公共事務管理研究所 === 107 === Culture is one of the most important subjects in contemporary urban governance. Urban governors nowadays have to transform culture as a solution to structural issues and utilize it to interact with urban civil society. However, culture itself is difficult to manage, this makes global governors love and hate. Under the regime of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Kaohsiung city had made its way toward “cultural governance”, using the proposition of “Localization/Globalization” to address the city’s emergent development crisis. Over the decades, DPP had performed this governance mechanism in Kaohsiung city repeatedly. Yancheng was once known as the downtown of Kaohsiung city. Like many other regions throughout the world, it faced the “hollowed-out” crisis. The city government tried to solve this governance risk with cultural mechanism. Given the decades-long accumulation of history and local culture, nonetheless, it was not an easy task. Yancheng became a battlefield of cultural governance between citizen and the government. Through qualitative research methods such as document research, participatory observation, and in-depth interview, the study reviews the actions of several groups (e.g. resident, shop owner, artist, cultural worker, and government bureaucracy) to analyze the local interaction between citizen, government, and society in past two decades. The study argues that the “cultural governance” mechanism has its limit. Take a closer look at the city government’s culture discourse, the concern about cultural economy is always on top of that about “place”. Under this circumstance, cultural landscapes, social networks and even civil culture awareness in Yancheng had been paradoxically torn apart. In the long term, it could lead to a lose-lose situation. Finally, the study points out that the new wave of cultural movement, created by Yancheng citizens around 2011, has shown how the civil society may reconstruct new discourse and social networks, and raise civic conversation. This makes Yancheng no longer “affiliated” to the Pier 2 Art Center, and shows how the “localization” cultural movement can open up a new vision for actors in this field.