Tourism Culture Economy and Constructing Place of Aboriginal Region -A Case Study of Saviki Community Tsou
Date Issued
2005
Date
2005
Author(s)
Liang, Bang-Kuen
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Selecting both local culture (knowledge) and tourism landscape production as object matters, this study explores how Taiwans’ aboriginal tribe responses to tourism market and government policy by applying local culture (knowledge), operating culture economy strategy, and proceeding tourism landscape production, and how they practice place construction based on the result of previously mentioned activities. This developmental process is not only the unique geographic fact of aboriginal tribe area, but also the development context of culture economy and new regional geography. Therefore, this study selected Saviki Community as study case, by which its tourism has been developed autonomously for two decades, to explore the connection between geographic facts and geography theories.
Due to the uprising cultural tourism market, emphasis on the local difference by capitalism and localism, and increasing sense of local reflexive subject, the relationship among place, culture and economy under the global-local nexus has been changed and connected since 1970s. With global economy restructure and politics curfew lifting at 1980s, Taiwan government adjusted the aboriginal policies because of the transformation on the relationship between central government and local governments and the stimulation of aboriginal social movement. This process also drives aboriginal region cultural flows (ethnoscape, mediascape and ideoscape) and to make aboriginal cultural resurgence and economy development.
First of all, the study proposes the connecting logic among place, culture and economy of aborigine: based on the decisiveness of local culture (an accumulative complexity of knowledge, practice and belief), cultural markers (resources) are selected to develop local culture and economy through the culturalisation of innovation and symbolization. Secondly, although the culture economy development of marginal regions emphasizes the local endogenous and bottom-up development, this study finds that it is necessary to associate outside driving forces effectively to make the concepts of local endogenous development and local culture decisiveness applicable. Thirdly, the development of Saviki community is the articulation of local culture, tourism market, and government system through interactive machine among resources sharing, place commercialization, and community organization adjustment. Fourthly, the alternative local economic development is the result of autonomic development of local culture of Saviki , which is different from the economic development of capitalism. Finally, the imagination of Saviki in imagined worlds also encourages new social movement and space reconstruction, and further induces disjuncture between reality and imagination.
The contribution of this research is to dialogue and make innovation between relevant geography theories and empirical research. The discussion include the construction of spatiality of aboriginal culture economy, the interpretations and influences for both local culture and outside agency on aboriginal tourism development (culturalisation), the establishment and adjustment of internal-external articulating machine from local culture embeddness, the alternative economic development under aboriginal cultural autonomy, and the production of new social space and driving forces (influence) from imagined worlds.
Subjects
原住民族地區
地方建構
山美
鄒族
aboriginal region
tourism culture economy
place construction
Saviki community
Tsou
SDGs
Type
thesis
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