Learning to LEADER. Ritualised Performances of ‘Participation’ in Local Arenas of Participatory Rural Governance
| Autor: | Oliver Müller, Sina Wohlgemuth, Ove Sutter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Practice theory
Sociology and Political Science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Corporate governance 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning Performative utterance Citizen journalism 02 engineering and technology Public relations Social practice Negotiation Political science Performativity media_common.cataloged_instance European union business 050703 geography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sociologia Ruralis. 60:222-242 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9523 0038-0199 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/soru.12287 |
| Popis: | The active involvement of local residents in development projects has become a keystone in current rural governance arrangements in the European Union. The latter’s rural development programme LEADER is an example of this, as it requests local residents to take action in the development process. Yet, despite the strong emphasis on ‘participation’ in policy texts and rhetoric, there is only a formalistic definition of what ‘participation’ as involvement and activation of local residents actually means and how it should be put into practice. Drawing on data gathered during ethnographic fieldwork in two LEADER regions and the insights of practice and performance theory, this article argues that because of this indeterminacy, ‘participation’ as a social practice must first be realised and defined in a performative way, i.e., it must be practiced, negotiated and legitimised in specific physical‐spatial settings. These settings serve as local arenas of participatory rural governance in which local residents are activated and involved in the implementation of LEADER projects. Assuming certain roles and carrying out specific activities related to material artefacts, they negotiate the meaning of ‘participation’ as a social practice. |
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