Summary: | 博士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 公民教育與活動領導學系 === 95 === Abstract
Spatial Migration and Leisure Experiences of the first female generation
The case study of Matsu Village
This study focuses on the first female generation of “The Dormitories of the Military Dependents” and explores the relationships between spatial migration and leisure experiences. The research topics are: (1) what are the relationships among life cycle, living space and leisure activities in the life span of the first female generation; (2) what are the social roles and constraints that impact their leisure activities; and (3) how to transfer their leisure activities and experiences while they are moving?
Historical literature, secondary data, analysis of life span, semi-structure interviews and observations from key informant are applied in study methods. Base on the above-mentioned methods, the developing and transforming of the life span and home span, the social construction of women roles, and the leisure space and experiences of the women can be obtained. Their living communities are changed form “Matsu Village” to “Luguang 5th Village”. All life stories result from the eight interviewers (aging from seventy-four to eighty-two) and the nine additional informants.
Based on the life stories of the first female generation, the different developing process are found during the three stages of the transforming about the life span, living space and leisure activities.
1. In life span, they married at young stage and moved to Taiwan depending on the occupation and power of their spouses. They raised their kids at their middle stage at the Matsu Village. They mourned for losing their husband or kids at their old stage at the Luguang 5th Village.
2. In living space, the place is more and more opened from home town, the Matsu Village, to the Luguang 5th Village. The Matsu Village provided a great diversity of leisure field.
3. In leisure activities, the family social activities are the major one in home town stage. It has multiple choices about leisure activities during the Matsu Village stage; but simplify in the Luguang 5th Village stage.
Some phenomena were found in this research:
1. In the characteristic of leisure roles, the patriarchy influences their leisure roles at youth stage, they are getting the leisure power gradually at middle stage, and the power is completely controlled at old stage.
2. In the social recognition and support which are provided by leisure activities, the family leisure and friend social are developed in the integral identification and recognition, emotion, and company supporting at the Matsu Village stage, they are consisted of the developing roles of the multiple leisure activities, social recognition, and social support at the Matsu Village, and the personal identity, emotion, and company support are developed by using the simplified leisure activities at the Luguang 5th Village.
3. In leisure field of the emerging public conceptions and leisure experiences, The courtyard house exhibits the social connection of the native home at the home town stage, the village community shows the social connection of the phenomenon “graft” that two different social conditions combined together at the Matsu Village stage, and the architecture of the multi-storey buildings displays the social connection of the secondary “graft” at the Luguang 5th Village stage.
According to above-mentioned descriptions, several conclusions are descried as follows:
1. Because of the wars, the life history of first female generation of “The Dormitories of the Military Dependents” presented two different developing processes “broken” and “reliving”. During the wars, they must adapt different spatial and social conditions based on their husbands’ occupations and powers. Now, they create a new kind of leisure form according to their accumulate experiences.
2. They can feel a kind of leisure experience “BSNS” that one thing was suffering at the happened time, but it is sweet now when she is remembering.
3. Government provides public leisure spaces and plans multiple activities for enriching the life of “The Dormitories of the Military Dependents” through the self-governing committees, women associations, community developing associations, and many government’s departments that provide fruitful production, consumption, leisure and political activities in the public field.
4. Living space, leisure activities and experiences were merged twice and produced a new “relational leisure”. The females need social support at the public space of the Matsu Village, so they combined the past experiences into the new surrounding by using leisure to create the social identity and support. The process is so called “graft” in planting. In the Luguang 5th Village, the original and simple leisure forms were changed and they established a new leisure interaction “graft” and combine again.
Keywords: leisure experience, leisure field, leisure constraints, The Dormitories of the Military Dependents
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