| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 地理環境資源學研究所 === 90 === The Chi Chi Earthquake, occurred on September 21 in the year of 1999, has caused dramatic trauma and serious hazards in Neo-Ware Village. It force the community to face the problem of recovery right away. The rebuilding process, however, does not mean to rebuild material space only. It is the process of reproduction of social space at the same time. For the resident, it means that if the community could hold their social network and recover their normal life. For the community workers, it tests that if the community empowerment is possible, and if the marginality in space could be revised. All the social agent exhaust their entire social networks for rebuilding their homes and communities. And maybe we could find the most important social mechanism for community development during the pro-quake recovery process. So it is important to realize the locality of Neo-Ware before 921 earthquake. Besides, in this research, the author tries to utilize Lefebvre''s concepts of social space as tools for exploring the material, imaginational, and lived space in Neo-Ware village pro-quake recovery and to scrutinize the nature of local society, and the cause of problem during the rebuilding process.
By scrutinizing community variation of Neo-Ware in the past 100 years and the production of space after 921 earthquake, it is argued in this thesis that the locality of village plays important role during the pro-quake recovery. It helps Neo-Ware people to confront the hazards. However, it causes contradiction and conflict inside the community at the same time. Besides, through re-establish the history of village, we realize that the difficulties of rebuilding. First, it is relationship to the land ownership transition from local people to special population outside the village in 1980s. Second, the new social relations of production in 1990s are also relevance.
Besides, the possibility of rebuilding is not only to depend on the awareness of grassroots or to make use of community organization, which is proposed by that the community workers. This research finds that the daily life practice of local people helps them to reconstruct and survive themselves. It''s the most important agent for pro-quake recovery. It constructs the meaning of home, community and hold the social network at the same time. However, there are some limitations still. First, the recall of cultural identity is not enough to construct local agency of Neo-Ware village. Second, the lack of communication inside the community organization makes them evading the issue, when they confront the contradiction and conflict.
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