自1994 年起，社區營造作為台灣的代表性社會政策與運動，在廣域的全球社區發展脈絡 裡扮演了重要的角色。社區營造，以實務的角度來說，在建築環境裡實體化了社會自我意 識的崛起、地方賦權、以及公共參與的概念。本文結合台灣的日常生活條件以及社區營造 於台灣社會中所扮演的各種角色作為分析的切入點對於社區發展論述做全面的探討。作為 本文的核心問題，身為一個中性概念的社區發展如何融合台灣的地緣政治與文化，並結合 各種台灣社會中認同議題的再現發展成為此獨特的社區營造議題將於文中做一批判性的檢 視。

Community Development, a social policy and social movement in contemporary Taiwan, in the very recent period (from 1994 onwards) was affirmed, empowered and legitimised in a new wave of a broad community development context. Pragmatically, Community Development is regarded as a concrete practice to represent the emergence of self-consciousness, local empowerment and public participation in the built environment. In this paper, Community Development is examined through different discourses. Interacting with Taiwan's everyday life, its different roles in society are analysed. Most importantly, a critical question behind this movement emerges: how does community development, a once neutral concept, become entangled in particular geopolitical and cultural contexts, and thus engage with different forms of identity through different representations in society?