Rural placemaking for sustained community well-being

Tietjen, Anne; Jørgensen, Gertrud

doi:10.7765/9781526161642.00018

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“…Festivals can play an important role in promoting economic and social development in rural communities (Mair and Duffy, 2018;Qu and Cheer, 2021;Chiciudean et. al., 2021) where unique difficulties are frequently encountered, such as decreasing populations and scarce resources (Tietjen and Jørgense, 2023). However, neither the social impacts of events within rural communities (Reid, 2007) nor rural placemaking (Lee and Blackford, 2020) have been extensively researched.…”

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Social practices and placemaking: the case of theBons Sonsfestival, in Portugal

De Almeida,

de Brito,

Wanderley

2023

IJEFM

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PurposeThe study aims to understand the meaning of event-based and place-based community practices, as well as the resulting social impacts.Design/methodology/approachAn ethnomethodological approach was followed (participant observation and interviews were supplemented by secondary data), with the analysis being exploratory and interpretative.FindingsThe festival and the place reinforce the community’s social practices, which have impacts beyond the festival, benefiting individuals, the community and the place, becoming a means for valorisation and diffusion of the rural way of life, and placemaking.Research limitations/implicationsIn this study the authors focus on social practices in the context of an event and of a place (the village where the event occurs). The authors connect to theories of practice, which they apply in the analysis. The value of the study lies on the underlying mechanisms (how communities exercise social practices in the context of festivals, and what social impacts may lead to) rather than its context-dependent specific results.Practical implicationsNational and regional authorities can play a role in providing local communities with adequate tools to overcome the challenges they encounter. This can be done by issuing appropriate (events) plans and policies while giving room for the locals to voice their opinions.Social implicationsCommunity-based festivals are key social practices that can strategically impact placemaking, strengthening community bonding, forging connections with outsiders and promoting well-being practices that discourage rural depopulation.Originality/valueThere is a scarcity of research that deepens the understanding of the role of festivals in placemaking and their social impacts, particularly in the rural context. This study contributes to closing this gap by focussing on the social practices of a community-based festival in a village in the interior of Portugal.

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