Heritage; Countryside; Local Community; Wallonia; Sense Of Place
Abstract :
[en] We have noticed important changes in rural communities including other perspectives on the common heritage. This could be linked with rapidly changes of demography, including aging and decline of native population and arrivals of commuters. Another hypothesis is that the Belgian society has lost the sense of local heritage. Factors like the rejection of Catholicism, the increase of mobility, social media, the increase of consumerism, including frequent leisure travels, could contribute to the explanation. Based on interviews with the workers and administrators of the NGO and on an e-survey of rural people, the research describes and suggests explanations of this apparently loss of sense of local heritage.
Research center :
Laplec Lepur : Centre de Recherche sur la Ville, le Territoire et le Milieu rural - ULiège
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Schmitz, Serge ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de géographie > Service de géographie rurale (LAPLEC)
Language :
English
Title :
The End of the Sense of Local Heritage among Rural People
Publication date :
October 2019
Number of pages :
1
Event name :
The Belgian Geographer Days
Event organizer :
Faculty of Sciences, University of Ghent
Event place :
Ghent, Belgium
Event date :
October 18th 2019
References of the abstract :
Schmitz S., 2019. The End of the Sense of Local Heritage among Rural People, in The Belgian Geographer Days 2019, Book of Abstracts, University of Ghent, p.77.
