英文摘要 |
"Tombs are memorial structures that bury the dead to comfort others, but they also carry various meanings and reverberate with cultural repercussions. This article explores the cemetery preservation movement in Taiwan in recent years, and examines how heritagization has become a strategy for linking historical memory, cultural value and contemporary life with each other, and at the same time inspires the spatial politics of reshaping the landscape of the dead. The authors first outline the transformation of grave heritages values in Taiwan from the Chinese nationality, celebrities and gentry, to transitional justice and the history of ordinary people. Under the democratization trend, grave heritage is no longer monopolized by the state, the rich and the powerful, and marginal communities have gradually been recognized. The authors then took Taipei's Liuzhangli''Cemetery for Political Victims during the Martial Law'', Yunlin Xiluo's''Dacheng Cemetery'', Kaohsiung's''Fudingjin Cemetery'', and Tainan's''Nanshan Cemetery''as examples to explore their discourses for the status of heritage. The study found that the discourse that confers political significance to the dead involves the competition for the narratives of nationality and transitional justice, and the claims of cultural and historical values of the burial landscape of the common people involve disputes over the use of suburban cemeteries as land for urban expansion. The authors argue that the heritagization of controversial tombs is a justification mechanism that transforms specific dead and grave infrastructure into cultural landscapes that reverberate with different values. The tensions in the cemetery heritagization have promoted heritage as a field of cultural resistance, which embodies the political nature of preservation and commemoration. Furthermore, different cases have presented different modes of the transformation of grave infrastructure, and the articulation effects of cultural infrastructure have presented a possible way out for tomb heritagization." |