Sektorale Institutionensysteme und die Governance kulturlandschaftlicher Handlungsräume
The article contributes a perspective of political science to debates on the social construction of cultural landscapes. For that purpose the conceptual relationship between constructivism and the dualistic theoretical approaches of institutionalism and governance analysis will firstly be discussed...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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oekom verlag GmbH
2012-04-01
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| Series: | Raumforschung und Raumordnung |
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| Online Access: | https://rur.oekom.de/index.php/rur/article/view/923 |
| Summary: | The article contributes a perspective of political science to debates on the social construction of cultural landscapes. For that purpose the conceptual relationship between constructivism and the dualistic theoretical approaches of institutionalism and governance analysis will firstly be discussed. Subsequently, the empirical analysis of the social construction of landscapes is documented concerning two fields of empirical observation: the field of sectoral institutional systems (nature conservation, heritage preservation, policy for rural areas, tourism policy, spatial planning) in a multi-level perspective, and the field of cultural landscapes as regional action arenas, where sectoral policies are operative and interact with each other. The logics of sectoral institutional systems are formative for regional agency. But they are modified mainly due to the existence of regional informal institutions such as spatial images, traditions, and attributions of the specific character of the landscape. These informal institutions have an important influence on the agency of stakeholders in large-scale reserves, cultural landscapes on the list of UNESCO world heritage sites, integrated rural development projects or tourism regions. Their influence tends to be stronger than the influence of central formal and informal institutions. The paper introduces a typology of governance forms which are specific for the constitution of landscapes as action arenas, such as the strategic communication about historical or endangered landscape elements, the creation of thematic locations, regional marketing, and the invention of regional traditions. Informal institutions are used by collective actors as fundament of their agency. This can be characterised as a sort of strategic essentialism.
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| ISSN: | 0034-0111 1869-4179 |