生活風格的創製：民宿狂潮中的意義生產與想像漂流
Date Issued
2004
Date
2004
Author(s)
黃舒楣
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
The development of pension in Taiwan, so to say, “ Pension tide’ is prosperous in these two years. I would like to focus my research on the interaction and changes between persons, place and pension industry behind the lifestyles performed within the development.
I regard the making of lifestyles not only product to be consumed, but also the process itself of the pension managing and consuming. It’s a moving and unceasingly articulating system with production of new meanings in use. Besides, I also want to request how lifestyles can be practiced as forms externalized from the subjects and as meanings internalized via discourse and interpretation?
Pension consists of the characteristics of home and leisure space. It can be not only the practice of ideal dwelling, but also the base of development of local tourism. Different hosts define, interpret, and practice dwelling and tourism in their own ways. Therefore there are different systems developed around the two points with the production of discourses and displaced imaginations, which reflect the deficiency of identity of people, time-space compression, the thinning of sense of place. What’s more, the relationship between pension practice and lifestyle reflect the difficulty result from cultural break, transforming industry and community-based development.
According to my experience, I found that the hosts of pension are activists and agents as well. They articulate unique systems of meanings and life discourses, which attribute to their own identities. The discourses, which involve the activist gaze, are like to improve the interpretation of local meanings and new sense of place. The subjectivity of the hosts change within the process, which induce the interaction between personal lifestyle and place.
The phenomenon of pension development is still diverse and even in a mass, with lots of styles created that cannot be distinguished. I regarded the articulation of lifestyle and meanings as a layered system. Diverse identities and sense of place are articulated in unequal rates and different routes of articulation. The production system is just like a flowing space influenced by flows of power. There are meanings internalizing to persons and place, and also floating imaginations that be externalized.
In this complicated process, I still concern the managing of pension as a creative kind of living, with the possibility to remodel subjectivity and articulate lifestyle. The popular business can only get beyond the managing level to affect person and place constructively if lifestyle can be constructed as an operative interpreting system to the host.
Subjects
民宿
生活風格
B&B
lifestyle
Type
thesis