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Boldizsár Megyesi: Naming the place: the social construction of rural landscape

 

Lecturer: Boldizsár Megyesi (CSS Centre for Sociology) 

Authors: Berandett Csurgó (CSS Centre for Sociology) - Gergely Horzsa (CSS Centre for Sociology) , Márta Kiss - Zsolt Szabolcsi (CSS Centre for Sociology) 

Discussant: Andrew Cartwright  (CEU Democracy Institute)

Date: 12, January, 2023, 1 p.m.

Venue: Central European University, 1051 Budapest, Nádor st. 15., 2. fl. room 203.

Online: Zoom link: 

https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/95384112713?pwd=djVGRVdQMnFpQnlnMmZGZmRxeVRIZz09

Meeting ID: 953 8411 2713

Passcode: 255502

 

Abstarct:

The aim of the paper is to find the link between the social construction of rurality and landscape and the sense of place by reviewing the literature and analysing three case studies in rural Hungary, to understand the interconnections between them and to use these relating concepts as a theoretical framework for our analysis. The paper is based on the literature on social construction of rurality, more precisely on the theories of place attachment, sense of place or aesthetics of place. To explore connectedness to a settlement by everyday people we used open-ended questions from a survey. The survey was part of a greater research conducted in rural Hungary ana-lysing the connection of rural image, local development and rural livelihood strategies. The answers were analyzed using a semi open-coded method. After reviewing the relevant literature, we present our methods, the context of the research, describe the case study areas. In the second part we show the methods of analysis and our main results. After the discussion and comparative analysis conclusions are drawn.