The Intersection of Country and City: Locality and Community Reconstruction Occurs in a Taiwanese Village / 農鄉與都市的交會:竹北東海地區的地方與社群重構

碩士 / 國立交通大學 / 人文社會學系族群與文化碩士班 / 104 / The region of Tonghai located in the county seat Zhubei City of Hsinchu is a Hakka dispersed settlement. Also, the region is a “special agricultural district” demarcated by Council of Agriculture in Executive Yuan. Confronting the urban plan expropriation called “Taiwan Knowledge-Based Economy Flagship Park” (formerly named Puyu Development Plan) since 2000, and in the arguments of economic development, agrarian livelihood along with the notions of land, villagers/informants in region of Tonghai dialogue and reflex toward the urban governmentality of science park built by the Hsinchu County officials in 1980s. Furthermore, villagers/informants make the reflexivities by participating, involving and competing in collective actions with “Tonghai Community Development Association”, dual positions associations of land expropriation called “Zhubei Puyu Self-Help (opposition)” and “Zhubei City Puyu Plan Advocacy (consent)”, the non-government organizations (NGOs) and intellectuals engaging in land movements in Taiwan. The region of Tonghai is considered to be an arena in social movement discourses. Instead of beginning the urban expropriation, the region neighborhood as a periphery of city has been making the boundary of locality/community with the urban outspread process of Taiwan in 20th century. By involving in the communal activities, neighbor patrols and alternative practices, villagers/informants in region of Tonghai imagine their locality to examine the urban politio-economical expansions. In the key of their practices, villagers embody the meaning of locality and community reconstruction between the kinships, families, industries, friendships and associations, and make the region of Tonghai in the intersection of country and city to face with the urbanism.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/104NCTU5774021
Date January 2016
CreatorsYeh, Ming-Cheng, 葉明政
ContributorsChuang, Ya-Chung, 莊雅仲
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format97

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