The Tourism-oriented Governance of War-heritage in Kinmen
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Chen, Lin
Abstract
In this article, I try to elaborate the governance mechanism in Kinmen during the War-heritage transformation, and I also investigate the possible development and difficulty of the war-heritage tourism in Kinmen in the future. The War-heritage of Kinmen is accidently preserved and become heritage formation due to the 43 years Martial Law Period. These Landscapes became the Tourism and recreation resources which motivate the development of War-heritage Tourism of Kinmen after the Martial Law was announced ended. I use the word Alchemy, which means “On the Government of Kinmen” in mandarin, to describe the process of War-heritage tourism developing in Kinmen. I investigate three different governance mechanism including Kinmen County Government, Kiman Defense Command of Ministry of National Defend, Kinmen National Park. I try to realize their co-governance and the conflicts relationships of the heritage tourism development. At the same time, these mechanisms governance themselves during the process unconsciously, which shape a twisted and distort governance. On the other side, I concern about the self-identification of Kinmen residents; with the meanings transformation of the Battlefield Landscape, the residents negotiate and reconstruct their memories and identification to Kinmen. And this process also reflex the twisted position in the Cross-Straits relation. Therefore, I refer to the concept of Heterotopias of Foucault, and use the Double-sided Mirror as a metaphor to elaborate the reflexive-reconstruction of Foucault mirror effect in Kinmen’s context.
Subjects
Kinmen War-heritage
tourism
governance
heterotopia
SDGs
Type
thesis
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