反身性的社區營造：實踐性的地理學想像

本文「反身性的社區營造」旨在回應《都市與計劃》2008年刊登之「社區營造的反思」文 章。本文引用Giddens所聲稱現代社會具有高度反身性，透過臺灣在民主化下政治轉型中社區 營造提供的經驗與實踐場域，展開「反身性（reflexive）的社區營造」與「社區營造的反思 （reflections）」對話。社造為臺灣在1994年起由國家發動，卻是學者與菁英實踐臺灣新社會 運動的發軔，並且方興未艾。2002年以後，社區營造員接力文化轉譯的社造任務，創造社造多 元性與多樣性。制度的反身性令網絡化社區在面對全球化新自由主義在地動員的可能。本文扣 接另類經濟地理之地方貨幣系統，在臺灣浮現與新近社造耦合的進程，用來強調社區營造運動 進一步的可能性。最後，本文強調社造必須超越國族國家認同的分析角度，從更寬廣之地理性 想像的實踐經驗來檢驗社區營造。

This study attempts to respond to ‘Reflections on Community Empowerment (CE)’ published in the “Journal of City and Planning” in 2008, by presenting a perspective on ‘Reflexive Community Empowerment’ based on practical participatory observations, as presented in the argument of Giddens regarding reflexivity in a modern society being related to the democratization of Taiwan and its political transition towards providing CE experience and practice. The state initiated CE in 1994, but scholars and community elites have launched it as a new social movement in Taiwan. Since 2002, community members have successively performed the task of cultural translation to create pluralism and diversity, and their locally institutional reflexivity mobilizes the possibilities of the networked communities in the face of global neoliberalisation. Additionally, this study articulates the involving more recent process related to the alternative economic geographies of the local currency system emerged in Taiwan. Finally, the study presents arguments that go beyond the analyses of the perspective of national identity on the CE practice, but employs wider practical geographical imaginations to examine the experience of the CE movement in Taiwan.