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A sense of rurality: Events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-8143
Abstract 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.
Highlights Events help foster a strong sense of community identity. Small-scale events in rural areas allow for new and unique uses of space. Events can be important in (re)defining a sense of place.
A sense of rurality: Events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-8143
Abstract 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.
Highlights Events help foster a strong sense of community identity. Small-scale events in rural areas allow for new and unique uses of space. Events can be important in (re)defining a sense of place.
A sense of rurality: Events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-8143
Abstract 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.
Highlights Events help foster a strong sense of community identity. Small-scale events in rural areas allow for new and unique uses of space. Events can be important in (re)defining a sense of place.
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)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 83 ; 138-145
25.02.2021
8 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Events , Place , Wales , Experience
A sense of rurality: events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town
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