Making Heritage in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Central Police Station Compound*
Making Heritage in Hong Kong: A Case Study of the Central Police Station Compound*
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创造香港遗产：中区警署建筑群案例研究*
DOI：
10.1017/s0305741010000299
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2010
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A. Ku
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摘要本文以2003-08年香港中央警署（CPS）大院保存过程中的国家-社会-资本冲突为个案进行研究。冲突发生在两种根本不同的城市空间方法之间：一种是将文化和空间作为经济利润来源的文化经济方法，另一种是强调文化、历史和人文价值为目的的对立的保护话语。反商业主义的斗争取得了适度的成功。本文借鉴并扩展了集体记忆和空间政治的概念，探讨了不同的民间社会行动者如何在与商业主义的斗争中，通过与历史和空间相关的各种话语和实践，试图定义和提高场地的文化价值。它解决的具体问题是，在特定的情况下，集体记忆的某些结构为什么以及如何成功（或失败）地适用于特定的地点。研究表明，对CPS化合物的记忆包括与国家有关的和与人有关的两种描述，其中前者占主导地位。这种与政府有关的描述被嵌入了一个熟悉的、关于香港的霸权故事中，这个故事通过围绕法治概念的抽象符号化过程，成功地将这个大院变成了这个城市的标志性标识。除此之外，民间社会行动者还试图创造一种与人民联系在一起的生活空间感，结果好坏参半。
Abstract This article is a case study of state–society–capital conflicts over the preservation of the Central Police Station (CPS) compound in Hong Kong during 2003–08. The conflict was between two fundamentally different approaches to urban space: a cultural economy approach that took culture and space as a source of economic profit, and an opposition discourse of preservation that emphasized cultural, historical and humanistic values as an end. The struggle turned out to be a moderate success for anti-commercialism. Drawing on and extending the notions of collective memory and spatial politics, this article examines how the various civil society actors, in their struggle against commercialism, sought to define and enhance the cultural value of the site through a variety of discourses and practices relating to history and space. It addresses the specific question of why and how certain constructions of collective memory succeed (or fail) to work with certain places in particular instances. The study shows that memories of the CPS compound contained both state-associated and people-associated accounts, between which the former prevailed. The state-associated account was embedded in a familiar, hegemonic story about Hong Kong, which, via an abstract process of symbolization around the notion of the rule of law, successfully turned the compound into an iconic symbol of identification for the city. Beyond this, the civil society actors sought also to generate a sense of lived space associated with the people, and the outcome was mixed.