英文摘要 |
This article revisits the critical research on cultural strategies associated with urban and regional development in Taiwan's academia. The author first summarizes criticism centering on cultural strategies paralleling the development of Taiwan: critics have discussed the effects of community buildings, historic preservation, performative festivals, creative cities and so on to propose that they actually embody state control, class ruling, the liability of capital to pursue greater profit, cultures that gradually lose their glamour, and the environmental crisis. Against these problems, critics have also envisioned cultural resistance. The author then shows the framing ideas local scholars have adopted so far to explore these cultural strategies of development. These include the living sphere of culture, cultural planning, creative clusters, creative cities and cultural governance, ideas that are connected to a network of knowledge constituted by three academic institutions which hold different positions yet have mutual exchanges. After discussing their respective theoretical connection and concerns regarding practices, the author concludes that an analysis as well as a reconstruction of the support network for cultural life should be pivotal, and should therefore be considered as the next agenda of research and practices. |