Free-time habitation and layers of ecological history at a southern Finnish lake

The role of nature in the place meanings and practices of cottage owners in northern environments

“…In relation to management preferences, two common threads that are not often discussed in second home and place attachment literature run through the analysis of the interviews. The first is the divergence between cottagers' ideas of nature and the scientific idea of nature which is frequently the basis of institutional nature conservation (Jokinen 2002). In line with the idea of nature as a museum (Sandell 1998), Valkonen (2003 has used the concept of 'aesthetic naturalness' to refer to the idea that the natural use of forests means preserving visual characteristics of nature (e.g.…”

“…The cottagers took pleasure from cultivating and shaping nature to correspond with their aesthetic taste, and also from chopping firewood and in some cases growing vegetables (C10.1, F3.1 & F3.2, F6.1 & F6.2). For many, these useoriented activities seemed to provide a chance to bond with the place, as well as an escape from their everyday lives in the city (see also Mitchell et al 1993;Jokinen 2002;McIntyre & Svanqvist 2004). These notions suggest that besides aesthetic qualities (Stedman 2006;Kelly & Hosking 2008) the use-oriented perspective of nature is important to cottagers' place attachment.…”

“…On the one hand, in comparison to many other forms of tourism, cottagers' ties to an area are based on ownership or longterm leasing of land; many share a multi-generational relationship with a certain area and plan to prolong their stays or live at their cottage permanently after their retirement Kelly & Hosking 2008). On the other hand, cottagers are not locals either, since their everyday life is tied to a permanent residence elsewhere which also mediates their experience of the cottage locality (Jokinen 2002;Williams & Van Patten 2006).…”

Changing ecological and cultural states and preferences of nature conservation policy: The case of nature values trade in South-Western Finland

“…Generally speaking, to leave decaying wood in forests benefits many endangered species, but may violate the managerial ethics of forestry workers (Jokinen, 2002). Such culturally positioned preference for a particular ecological state was often expressed by the forest owners we interviewed.…”

The social in change: property rights contradictions in Finland

“…These cottages are also important places for sustaining and reconstructing recreational fishing activities (Salmi et al 2006). As the summer cottage dwellers are typically urban people with their roots in the countryside, they partly follow the customs and habits associated with the past, but also give them new meanings, filtered through the modern urban perspective (Jokinen 2002). Thus the fishing culture has become partly nonlocalized (Lappalainen 1998) and the fisher groups have increased in number and variation of behavior and values (Salmi et al 2008).…”