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Sense of Place and Community Food Systems
Jeremy Solin
Wisconsin Center for Environmental Education,
UW – Stevens Point College of Natural Resources and
UW Extension – Cooperative Extension
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Sense of Place
Sense of Place & Community Food Systems
Community Food Systems
Civic Engagement
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Sense of Place • Think of a place that is important to you – this
could be a place from your past, a place you still frequent, a place you have only been to one time or many.
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Sense of Place • What is it about those places that make
them important?
– Part of who you are
– You get something from them
– They have emotional, spiritual, physical, cognitive meaning
– They connect you to something larger – family, the land, community
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Sense of Place
Place: Biophysical
Socio-cultural Sense of Place
Ch
anges/m
aintain
s
Personal
Sense of Place
Place Attachment
(emotional,
psychological and
physical connection)
-Identity
-Dependence
Place Meaning
(symbolic meanings
given to place)
-Ecological
-Social
-Behavioral
Place
action
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Motivations for Food Systems Work • Why are you involved with community food
systems?
• What benefits do you get from your involvement?
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Place-Making • How does a sense of place develop?
• Experience • Reflection • Relationships
• Dependence • Similarities
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Farmshed • Focus on relationships
• Expanding the meanings of food and place
• Increasing the understanding of dependencies
• Building “inhabitation” skills
• Decolonization of food system
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Sense of Place and Community Food Systems – Dissertation Project
• Relationship between sense of place and community food systems
– How does sense of place motivate engagement in community food systems?
– How does sense of place develop through engagement in community food systems?
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Sense of Place and Community Food Systems – Dissertation Project
• How can place/the land/community/food serve as a common motivator and ground for civic engagement?
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Sense of Place and Community Food Systems – Dissertation Project
• Interviews with ~30 people involved in food systems work – founders, staff, volunteers, farmers
• Diverse representation: geographical, cultural, professional, economic = urban, tribal and rural.
• Focus groups and interviews spring through fall 2014