Cultural Heritage and Community Participation: A Case of Sugar Refinery at Kio-A-Thau, Kaohsiung

• Main Authors: Yu-Ping Kao, 高育屏
• Other Authors: Shaw-Wu Jung
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96230529499442742046

碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 人類學研究所 === 97 === This thesis takes Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery as a case to highlight the achievements of Kio-A-Thau Culture and History Organization, which has devoted to community renaissance for decades. In the process of designating Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery as cultural heritage for Kio-A-Thau community different thoughts and events were tangled. Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery was intimately connected to local history and culture, as Kio-A-Thau Culture and History Organization argues, characterized in “sugar culture”. Industrial ruin converted to museum and also theme park were among the proposals changing Sugar Refinery when it shuts down. This thesis has twofold focuses. First, it discusses how the members of Kio-A-Thau Culture Society has integrated community residents and mobilized local resources to achieve their goals, that is, preserving Sugar Refinery to be cultural heritage. Secondly, it explores the identification the residents had attached to the reconstruction of Kio-A-Thau Sugar Refinery when they participated. To conclude, it shows the conflicts and struggles among various agents in forming local identity. Community is always an arena in which different voices compete.