英文摘要 |
The Taipei City Government proposed “Vision 2050 of Taipei” in 2015 as a long-term urban revival plan. It thus raises a critical question: How will it be fine-tuned to gear with citizens' changing needs? To answer this question, we apply the notions of political discourse and Gramscian hegemony and analyze the three district-level revival sub-plans of “Vision 2050”. By reducing the government's persuasion and citizens' responses to the analytical relations among value, goal, circumstance, means, and action claim (categories taken from the political discourse literature), we find that citizens on the whole will rally round the government's plans, even if these plans suffer from elaborating upon their own values, goals, and action claims. They will positively endorse these plans, primarily because they share with the officials the same conceptual metaphor, i.e., to enrich the people, which becomes the fundamental consensus between the rulers and the ruled. Not all citizens, however, sing the same tune. Those community workers among them do have an alternative plan that focuses exclusively on the value, the goal, and the means for preserving the urban historical heritages. Their plan constitutes a breach of the otherwise completely closed discourse of the government. It therefore prevents the government's agenda from realizing a sweeping Gramscian hegemony. |