I am about to start a research related to the link between fundraising and creation of territorial value. The research aims at understanding the weight that cultural identity and territorial value creation has in the choices made by companies and citizens to sponsor or donate to cultural organizations.
yes
- Start with Alan Peacock, father of cultural economics. You might want to browse the issues of the Journal of Cultural Economics on Jstor.
'[...] it is illuminating to return to Bourdieu's original fieldwork in Algeria in 1958-1962 and his study of the Kabyle people from which he sketched his Outline of a Theory of Practice (Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique 1972). It is the value of a place, or at least a piece of land that first prompts Bourdieu to propose:
"We must always analyse in terms of the same logic the mechanisms which sometimes endow a piece of land with a value not always corresponding to its strictly technical and (in the narrow sense) economic qualities. […] a piece of land will sometimes take on a symbolic value disproportionate to its economic value, as a function of the socially accepted definition of the symbolic patrimony."
Bourdieu (1977, 182)
"Pour éviter un retour offensif du matérialisme réduit et réducteur, il faudrait analyser en détail les mécanismes qui confèrent parfois à une pièce de terre une valeur qui ne correspond pas toujours à ses qualités proprement techniques et économiques (au sens retreint). […] il arrive qu'une terre prenne une valeur symbolique disproportionnée avec sa valeur économique en fonction de la définition socialement admise du patrimoine symbolique."
Bourdieu (1972, 374)
Bourdieu continues to try to understand how this additional, symbolic capital is generated for a place and urges researchers to examine all the practices that are connected with place, including disinterested or gratuitous practices, which he says social scientists should study as if they were economic practices directed towards maximising symbolic profit (Bourdieu 1977) and (Bourdieu 1972). In a more contemporary society these gratuitous practices may be considered to include several forms of mediation. By this is meant the production of literary texts, of films, drama and poetry whose aim is not to market a place.' (Mansfield 2015, 52-53)
Reference
Mansfield, C (2015) Researching Literary Tourism, Plymouth, Shadows TKT.
Here on ResearchGate
Book Researching Literary Tourism
As far as "the creation of value for the territory", you could look into the concepts of Place Attachment and Sense of Place if you wish to understand how the emotional bonds between individuals or groups and their meaningful environments are formed.
There are a lot of papers on this subject available online, but a good start would be this book:
http://www.springer.com/la/book/9781468487558
Good luck!
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Social Science
- Media
- Journalism