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A sense of rurality: events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town
This paper focuses on an event, the World Alternative Games (WAG), as a site for the development and maintenance of community. The research shows how a rural community uses its own interpretation of space to create new activities, inspire collaborative development and promote tourism within a particular locale. Drawing upon ethnographic research undertaken at the third edition of the WAG in 2016, it provides a social constructivist account of community participation. Activities, interactions and symbolic connections occurring in the spaces of Britain's smallest town shed light on the processes through which a sense of rurality develops in relation to an out-of-the-ordinary use of the rural landscape.
A sense of rurality: events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town
This paper focuses on an event, the World Alternative Games (WAG), as a site for the development and maintenance of community. The research shows how a rural community uses its own interpretation of space to create new activities, inspire collaborative development and promote tourism within a particular locale. Drawing upon ethnographic research undertaken at the third edition of the WAG in 2016, it provides a social constructivist account of community participation. Activities, interactions and symbolic connections occurring in the spaces of Britain's smallest town shed light on the processes through which a sense of rurality develops in relation to an out-of-the-ordinary use of the rural landscape.
A sense of rurality: events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town
Aquilino, Lucia (Autor:in) / Harris, John (Autor:in) / Wise, Nicholas (Autor:in)
01.04.2021
Aquilino , L , Harris , J & Wise , N 2021 , ' A sense of rurality: events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town ' , Journal of Rural Studies , vol. 83 , pp. 138-145 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.02.013
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