社區基礎設施化：新北市新店區花園新城供水爭議
Other Title
The Infrastructurization of Community: The Water Supply Contestation of the Garden New Town in Xindian, New Taipei City
Journal
地理研究
Journal Issue
73
Start Page
1
End Page
30
Date Issued
2021-08
Author(s)
李蔚
Abstract
基礎設施中介且重組了人與自然的關係。社區必須有適當的基礎設施，方能形成合宜的生活環境，否則可能引發爭取基礎設施的行動，社區也在此過程中分裂或凝聚。作者以「社區基礎設施化」概念來探討相關過程，並以花園新城開發及供水爭議為例，運用次級資料分析及關鍵人物訪談，勾勒社區通過供水問題而動員的始末。研究發現，由於坡地開發缺乏自來水供應，加以建設公司營運不善而難以有效管理，供水成為社區動員的議題。從簡易自來水系統到正式自來水系統的轉換，不僅涉及社區內部行動者的論述宣揚與共識凝聚，也須捲動外部政治資源和治理機制，以及部署管線和蓄水池等科技物。然而，以基礎設施來改造自然、也改變社區的歷程，引發了權利意識、土地權屬、公私劃界，以及治理權責等爭論。這顯示山坡地社區的基礎設施化並非一蹴可幾，而是複雜的多重自然、科技物、行動者及制度互構的過程。
Infrastructure mediates and re-structures the human-nature relationship. A community relies on infrastructure to form a proper living environment. Failing to have infrastructure might cause actions influencing a community's establishment, during which the community is also led to increase social cohesion or fragmentation. The authors explore this dynamic process of power relations through the notion of ＂infrastructurization of community.＂ Through secondary data analysis and interviews with key figures, the authors draw upon the development of Garden New Town in New Taipei City and shed light on its controversies on water supply to illustrate how the community was mobilized through their fight for water. Water supply first became an issue for the community since Garden New Town, which is located at the hillside, faces various barriers to be connected to a running water system. In addition, the developer's ineffective management made the community struggle hard for their water supply system to transform from a rudimentary kind to one that is connected to running water. This is a process that requires the community members to propagate specific discourses and to reach consensus; they need to draw on political resources from the outside while also facilitating governance mechanism from within. They will also have to include concerns on the deployment of technological objects such as pipelines and reservoirs. Yet, as people reshape nature as well as their community through infrastructure, controversies on the awareness of rights, property ownership, public-private boundaries and the accountability of governance also arise. This shows that the infrastructurization of community cannot be fulfilled overnight- a complicated multitude of nature, technological objects, actors and social institutions actually articulate with each other to make it a dynamic process.
Subjects
山坡地開發
自來水
社區動員
水治理
hillside development
tap water
community mobilization
water governance
Type
journal article