| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 社會與文化研究所 === 104 === This essay focuses on Road 193 as an example to illustrate the question of built environments in the age of neoliberal capitalism, especially pinpointing the transformation of the road system from the need of livelihood to the demand of capitalism.
First, I take Road 193 as an archaeological text, inscribed with different stages of economic development. Taiwan’s road system has been involved in the national economical plans; therefore, the study of Taiwan road system through Road 193 is in the meantime to study the route of capitalism in Taiwan. Secondly, I inspect the two discourses under capitalism: one is modernity—the reproduction (suburbanization, gentrification, and consumerism) of Hualien city; the other one is subaltern knowledge—the ethnography bases not on capitalism but cultural customs. In the end I combine these two tasks in order to examine Hualien, as a newly developed capitalist city, that has practiced primitive accumulation of the 19th century through the rationale of capitalized-tourism in the 21th century.
The main purpose and also the conclusion of this essay is to show that if we want to withstand the social injustice, we must distinguish the hegemonic oppression concealed in the unconscious desire of development. By putting the case of Road 193 in the postwar context, this project helps us recognize the misrecognition of modernity introduced by Western concept of developmentalism.
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