| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立高雄師範大學 === 地理學系 === 95 === ABSTRACT
This paper studies Oriental Beauty tea production in O-mei and Pei-pu from the perspective of spatial cultural economy, hoping to bring spatial discourse to the construction of cultural economy. Three dynamic aspects guide the study in the dialectic discourse of the tea production. The first aspect is the local and non-local interactive context of the tea production. The second is about the spatiality of cultural economy in the production of Oriental Beauty tea. Finally, the paper argues that, through the dialectics of geographical scales, the cultural economy of Oriental Beauty tea production is shaped by intertwined tension among actors.
The social relation of Oriental Beauty tea production is deliberately consolidated by agency, such as production, collaboration and advancement, situated in the from-export-to-domestic market swing of Taiwan’s tea export history. Pei-pu asserted the name of Pon-Fon and O-mei advocated the name of Oriental Beauty. Both are constructed through the tension of social relations. Social capital is significant both in the production and sale of the tea, which are highly shaped by social relations. The spatiality of social production of the tea is thus embodied in the particular social relations among the local and the non-local. Spatial cultural economy also presents in the making of the Pon-Fon and Oriental Beauty teas and in the low seasons of tea production when the farmers spend time in mobilizing social capital and social relations to gain access to the next season’s successful production.
From various geographical scales, the sociality, local cultural economy and tea farmer’s philosophy shape the production of Oriental Beauty. The spatial cultural economy of Oriental Beauty tea is contextually embodied with cultural, institutional and local-non-local social relations. The structuration theory, where structure and agency are intertwined coherently in the tea production context, “non-human” concept in actor-network theory and the principal concept of human ecology, are discussed to delineate the cultural and social production of the Oriental Beauty.
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