The Political Characters of Cultural Heritage: With An Analysis of the Controversies about the Building to Become Cultural Heritage as a Case Study

• Main Authors: Ming-ju Shiang, 向明珠
• Other Authors: Chung-hsi Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2002
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82489717307576299412

碩士 === 國立雲林科技大學 === 文化資產維護研究所碩士班 === 90 === Chia-yi Shiue-wu chu-chang-so(the Chia-yi tax office), a building which constructed at 1932, situated in the center of the Chia-yi City. As a government institute, it had been used by several different department of the Chai-yi Government after World War Ⅱ. The Chai-yi Government announced the building to be destroying in June 2001, for the project of new Chai-yi Government Administrative Building. It arose dissent from the alliance that consisted in protecting the building. The Chai-yi Government wouldn’t like to change the original plan, however, while the alliance supposed the building was worthy conserving as cultural heritage. The point is whether the building is cultural heritage or not. Since cultural heritage conservation has been practiced with law in Taiwan at 1982, as the state policy, how did it has been practiced, or has been used among various powers? The research of the process in controversies in this case, the alliance struggled for proving the building to be cultural heritage, with many strategies of the social movement, against the Chia-yi Government. Although the building was demolished in Jan. 2002 after all, there were certain people become identified with the social movement of cultural heritage conservation. This thesis elucidates the theory of knowledge by B. Latour, we can understand the knowledge of cultural heritage is shaped by a social practice and dynamic consensus, not only the politics intervene in the cultural heritage, but also the arguments characterized political: how to open the controversies or close the controversies, translating the interests of actors, to build the length of the network.