「福住永康---社區運動與都市生活」專書寫作計畫

Abstract

對於研究台灣民主化的學者來說，永康街的都市田野提供一個在地的精彩的切入 點。台灣社會從1987 年解除戒嚴後，各個面向的生活實驗在社會開放與重結構的過程 中展開：80 年代中期至90 年代初期的探索激情，到90 年代中期，已化作小心翼翼的民 主檢視。本書內容即是來自於對這個新民主的反思與檢驗，透過了解90 年代中期興起 的社區運動，試圖探討民主生活與地方想像的辨證關係。 另一方面，永康街的田野帶領我注意都市現象，本書特別探討台灣都市社會與文化 的形成問題，試圖了解都市的政治脈絡，以及政治的都市脈絡。不管是社會理論或跨國 /在地政治論點，都市從來不只是人群大量聚集的處所而已，都市還是某種價值觀點或意 識形態的具體呈現：不管這些觀點對都市的存在是褒是貶，認為都市的角色是革命還是 反動，都市生活是刺激創意還是引誘墮落，都市總是無法避免被品頭論足。本書將深入 市民日常生活，以回應這些不同的都市主義論述。 本書的討論周旋於政治、地方與都市三個概念之間，試圖定位出政治運作的實際場 所，而地方正是這個微觀權力運作的一個具體化空間。另一方面，都市性的探討則讓本 文注意地方並非是一個固定不動封閉的社會與歷史既存，它的界線常變動，疆界更是具 有高度的可穿透性，不過並不代表這個具體化的空間已喪失其內在的特殊性，時空的人 文效應仍然左右地方與跨域力量的連結，因此地方必須被視為內外關係叢節運作的一個 結果，是某種政治與社會計畫的呈現。

This project investigates a trend of place-based mobilization, a demand for the care of place among urban neighborhoods. Neighborhood mobilizations in Taipei in the mid-1990s had huge impact upon the broader social movement field. At first glance, these mobilizations were basically responding to both worsening urban problems and a feeling of loss of control over time and space, representing self-help groupings grounded in a sense of community. Many urban residents stood up for their rights and well-being. “Communities” were claimed and remade in an attempt to address urban problems such as traffic, crime, inadequate public services, and park preservation. This project examines an urban neighborhood –Yongkang -- in Taipei and its residents’ efforts to bring the community together. In the context of post-martial law Taiwan after 1987, this changing mode of mobilization about the complexity of life-world has gained strength, as many people have come to believe that local differences have been ignored and devastated in the course of a universalistic plan for modernization. This project studies those daily nosy explorations into space, which, made possible by a new urban infrastructure and lifestyle, open up both physiological and cognitive possibilities. This project examines the daily trivialities of this emerging lifestyle, in which varying social and political experiments materialize and collapse in newly de-monitored urban space.