A Study on Cultural Governance of Local Festival:A Case of Tamsui Arts Parade
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Lin, Jian-Yu
Abstract
Many scholars endeavor to connect culture and governance. Their research of cultural governance can be divided into three perspectives: cultural function, power operation, and cultural policy. This study indicates that local festival, which features daily lifestyle and local culture, often needs people to participate, hence local festival could become one form of cultural governance. In addition, it takes not only long-term culturalization but also cultural governance for a local festival to take shape. Therefore, this study aims to understand the relationship between cultural governance and local festival. With Tamsui Arts Parade as the case study, the research methods include archive analysis of the data during 2007-2011 and in-depth interviewing with 19 stakeholder organizations.
This study shows that the agents of Tamsui Arts Parades can be divided into the core agents and periphery agents according to their influences on the issue and their participatory attitudes. The core agents enter the arena because they regard the sharing of recourses as important, while the periphery agents focus on whether the discourse meets their demand. However, all agents cooperate by means of discourse and resources. Discourse only facilitates short-term cooperation, whereas resource sharing serves as the basis of stable cooperation. The core agents constitute Tamsui Arts Promotion Committee by integrating discourse and cooperation. The periphery agents empower themselves by participating activities, reconstruct local identity through the festival theme “Battle of Huwei”, and activate creative thinking by interchanging different values. Therefore, locality plays an important role in the cultural governance of local festival. To avoid any single agent from controlling the cultural governance, public sectors should help other agents to strengthen their ability of creating incentives, and adhere to arm’s length principle while participating in local festival. In addition, as an NGO, Tamsui Arts Promotion Committee should construct mechanism of self regulation, information transparency and supervision.
Subjects
Governance
Cultural Governance
Local Festival
Tamsui Arts Pardade
Type
thesis
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