| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 台灣文學與跨國文化研究所 === 101 === This thesis looks into the interrelationship between water’s ecology and ethnic culture in Wu Ming-Yi’s nature writing, and Mayaw Biho, Ke Jin-Yuan’s documentary films, and explores what kind of ecological observations are presented through different types of media. Furthermore, this paper connects contemporary environmental issues in Taiwan to global ecological consciousness, and explores how water-related ecological consciousness functions in these process.
Chapter II explores the interrelationship between natural ecology and ethnic culture in Ming-yi Wu’s So Much Water So Close to Home. Wu provides substantial reflections on water’s ecology in eastern Taiwan through historical and cultural backgrounds, scientific knowledge, as well as traditional ecological knowledge of aboriginals, and develops a discourse on water’s ecology in eastern Taiwan and global ecological consciousness.
Chapter III explores the destruction of natural environment in modern city and its impact on aboriginal people’s lives in Mayaw Biho’s Children in Heaven and Our Home Beside the River. Through the issue of unplaced urban aboriginal people, and the power relation between aboriginal people and majority Han Chinese, this film becomes a reactive voice to the mainstream thinking of developmentalism.
Chapter IV explores the marine ecosystem’s pollution by KuoKuang Petrochemical Project and other petrochemical industry in southwestern Taiwan in Jin-Yuan’s Ke Ebb and Flow and Formosa V.S Formosa. After discussing how the director represents the symbiosis between traditional economy industry and local environment, I provide an overview of the interaction between environmental documentaries and various ecological issues in Taiwan.
As a whole, this thesis explores the mutual-belonging interactions and relationships between human and nature from water environmental issues in Taiwan''s different regions, and criticizes the mainstream thinking in the modernization process that ignored the value of nature and environmental justice. In addition, this paper also reflects on alternative thinking about regional development from traditional culture and history with ecological implications, and further tries to connect regional issues and practices to contemporary global ecological consciousness.
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