Access to Ximenting: toward Representaional Spaces of Teenagers and Gay Men (1994-2010)
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Wu, Chia-Ying
Abstract
This thesis aims at explaining the production of teenagers'' and gay scene (1994-2010) in Ximenting, the old CBD developed in colonial Taipei. Political changes in late 1990s are crucial to the transformation of public spaces in Taipei. With the introduction of new principles like ‘citizen participation’ and ‘Space Liberation’, cultural politics are pushed to the frontline of restructuring public space in Taipei, especially in the old political-economical-cultural core in west Taipei. Due to the consideration of the distinct political condition, I propose an analytical framework that different from the neo-liberalism explanations of urban redevelopment in the U.S. agenda. The contrast concepts ‘representations of space’ and ‘representational spaces’ that Henri Lefebvre proposed are the standpoint of my approach. Brilliant works of Sharon Zukin and Don Mitchell help clarify the characters of contemporary ‘public space’ and offer adequate and critic ways to see public space.
Through comparison of teenagers and gay men in political and economic conditions, the strategies to organize and negotiation, this thesis offers two different routes of marginal groups to access public space. While displaying the distinct trajectory of ‘Disneyfication’ from the construction of Ximenting teenager pedestrian district, this study also discovers a different process through gay right movement in the struggle and negotiation of public space in Red House Square.
Subjects
Ximenting
space of teenagers
gay space
representational space
public space
gay movement
SDGs
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