英文摘要 |
This article discusses the cultural governance of old city reconstruction under the Chinese context, and highlights the legitimation crisis and official responses in the historical preservation movement and cultural economic transformation. The author takes Enning Road and Pantang Wuyue in Liwan District, Guangzhou as examples. Through literature analysis, field observations and interviews, this study elucidates how non-governmental initiatives, petitions and even protests can affect the government that concerns social stability to modify its policy, and to develop the cultural and creative industries and the joint building committee as new governance mechanisms to consolidate its legitimacy and deploy legitimation politics. The government revises cultural discourse to consolidate cultural legitimacy; develops cultural economy to stabilize performance legitimacy, and encourages consultation and communication in the public domain to compensate for procedural legitimacy, thereby responding to the demands of all parties and temporarily alleviating contradictions, repairing the legitimation crisis of urban renewal. However, giving governance responsibilities to the cultural and creative industries of Enning Road and Pantang Wuyue has implicitly turned cultural and creative workers into policy tools for cultural governance. They are trapped by various constraints imposed by the government, developers and residents. The political effects of the local cultural and creative economy transformation have therefore outweighed the economic prospects. |