| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 建築與城鄉研究所 === 104 === Based on the field analysis of Wenshan-Pouchong Tea Production in Pinglin, I used the term “nature making” to include the relational practices between human and nature. Pinglin has its own multiple natural character, being a critical tea production place and a water resource suppling urban Taipei, which leaded to struggles defining and making “nature”.
In this thesis, I pointed out the historical turn from “latent nature making” to “manifest nature making”. I firstly explored the practical experiences of conventional tea farmers, with the method of participle observation, further described the symbolic struggle between different actors in the field, on the base of diverse habitus and interests in growing tea and operating the social relationships. For those conventional tea farmers, making nature was only for growing tea. Therefore, their practices of tea farm management mainly focused on tea trees. The raise of “manifest nature making” could be divided into two factors: one being appointed into the Taipei reservoirs catchment conservation area, the power of natural governance, and on the other hand, the involvement of “pan-organic” tea production actors. They concerned the comprehensive natural environment as a whole, causing the main stress in the symbolic struggle.
In conclusion, I mentioned two critical tensions of symbolic struggle in Pinglin, which are the stresses between “pan-organic—conventional” and “tea-village—water resource”, further pointed out three strategic trends—bureaucratization, rationalization and ethnicization. Finally, I tried to build the epistemology to the practical scheme of growing tea, and then describe the field dynamics of the tea production in Pinglin, operated through multiple interest structures and practices.
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