Larsson, Elice Jennifer Broge, 2022. Marketing Sense of Place : recruiting people to Resele. First cycle, G2E. Uppsala: SLU, Dept. of Urban and Rural Development
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This Bachelor’s thesis in rural development aims to examine the relationship between place identity and place marketing in a place prized for its efforts to attract new comers. The material has been collected through print and web-based marketing materials, observations in the village and group interviews with active members of the community. Central theoretical concepts throughout the process have been place marketing, sense of place and community as a process of joint ‘sense of place’-making. The results show that marketing is mainly directed outwards to prospective new inhabitants but is also used towards the public sector and inwards to the villagers. The content of the marketing is aimed at attracting people who are like those already actively engaged in the village. Most of the qualities valued by the villagers are the same as those visible in the marketing materials. This leaves aspects, individuals and groups who don’t fulfill these qualities invisible in the marketing and in the building of the joint sense of place. Community activities to reproduce the sense of place are also conducted in other ways than the marketing, both by what social arenas are available in the village as well as the narratives the participants tell about themselves as a village.
,Den här kandidatuppsatsen inom landsbygdsutveckling syftar till att undersöka relationen mellan platsidentitet och platsmarknadsföring på en plats prisad för sitt arbete med att attrahera nya invånare. Materialet har samlats in genom marknadsföringsmaterial i tryckt och webbaserat format, observationer i byn och gruppintervjuer med engagerade bybor. Centrala teoretiska begrepp under hela processen har varit platsmarknadsföring, platsidentitet och gemenskapande aktiviteter för identitetsbyggande. Marknadsföringen riktar sig främst utåt mot inflyttade men används även gentemot offentlig sektor, och inåt mot byborna. Resultaten visar att innehållet i marknadsföringen ämnar attrahera personer som liknar de som redan är i aktiva i byn, samt att de flesta av de kvaliteter som värdesätts bland byborna också är de som syns i marknadsföringsmaterialet. Det lämnar aspekter, individer och grupper som inte uppfyller de högst värderade kvaliteterna osynliga i marknadsföringen och i byggandet av platsidentiteten. Gemenskapande aktiviteter för att reproducera platsidentiteten sker även genom flera processer utöver själva marknadsföringen, både genom vilka sociala arenor som finns tillgängliga och genom vilka berättelser deltagarna berättar om sig som by.
Main title: | Marketing Sense of Place |
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Subtitle: | recruiting people to Resele |
Authors: | Larsson, Elice Jennifer Broge |
Supervisor: | Planting Mollaoglu, Emil |
Examiner: | Beckman, Malin |
Series: | UNSPECIFIED |
Volume/Sequential designation: | UNSPECIFIED |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Level and depth descriptor: | First cycle, G2E |
Student's programme affiliation: | NY007 Agriculture Programme - Rural Development 270 HEC |
Supervising department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development |
Keywords: | sense of place, place marketing, narrative, Resele, migration |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-500515 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-s-500515 |
Subject. Use of subject categories until 2023-04-30.: | Rural sociology and social security |
Language: | English |
Deposited On: | 30 Jan 2023 08:53 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 30 Jan 2023 08:53 |
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