社会精英如何推动农村社区治理?——来自台湾桃米社区的经验

How Do Social Elites Promote Rural Community Governance?Experiences from Taomi Community in Taiwan

外来社会精英如何进入封闭的农村熟人社会并驱动治理创新?本文通过对台湾桃米社区的案例分析发现,"文化转译"促进了外来精英在社区中的融合。与此同时,外来社会精英也凭借资源优势,将其关于农村社区治理的构想转化为社区内相关利益团体的共识,构建农村社区治理网络,使农村社区成为高度自治的共同体。外来社会精英的自我转化是其社区建设构想得以实现的起点。面对农村社区相对稳定而封闭的社会特质,淘米经验对于激发农村社区建设的想象力具有重要的启示。

How do outside social elites enter the closed rural society and launch social innovation？ By studying the case of Taomi Community in Taiwan,this article finds that Cultural Translation plays an essential role in integrating the elites from the outside into the rural community. Meanwhile,social elites,by making full use of their advantages in resource mobilization and networking,have transformed successfully their conception of rural community governance into the consensus among different interest groups and established the governing network connecting different stakeholders in the community,which enhance effectively the self-governance in the rural area. This case also demonstrates that self-transformation of social elites is beneficial to the final realization of their ideas of rural community governance. In view of the closeness and stability characterized by the rural community,the experiences from the case of Taomi may stimulate our imagination of the development of rural community.