Perceiving the Ordinary: A Study of Everyday Landscapes in B elgium
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Abstract Landscape researchers have devoted relatively little attention to ordinary or everyday landscapes. This paper investigates differences in opinion about the attractiveness of these landscapes between groups of people according to their linguistic area and other socio‐demographic characteristics. A survey of 1,542 Dutch and French speakers in Belgium using photo‐questionnaires depicted the different types of Belgian rural landscape. Significant differences were observed regarding landscapes containing the same features, allowing to posit, to test, and to validate certain hypotheses. Dutch speakers found chessboard agrarian landscapes more attractive. Less educated participants felt more positive towards anthropogenic landscapes. Women were more attracted by farmed fields. Qualitative data added depth to the analysis, permitting to explore different ways in which people related to the landscape pictures. For a theoretical interpretation, we draw on Gibson's affordances theory and we revisit Larrère & Larrère's ways of looking at landscape theory.
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Rural landscapes represent the place where many people live, recreate, and with which they create a feeling of identity and belonging.
“Rural landscapes represent the place where many people live, recreate [21], and with which they create a feeling of identity and belonging [22].”
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- Authors
- Vanderheyden, V., Van der Horst, D., Van Rompaey, A., & Schmitz, S.
- Affiliations
- University of Liège (BE)
- School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Drummond street Edinburgh EH89XP United Kingdom
- Department of Geography KU Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200 E B‐3001 Heverlee Belgium
- Corresponding author
- Vanderheyden, Vincent
- Schmitz, Serge
- ORCID
- Schmitz, Serge
- Venue
- Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-12-17
- Volume
- 105
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 591-603
- ISSN
- 0040-747X (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9663
- OpenAlex
- W1729955414
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 0.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Lirias (submittedVersion)
- ORBi (University of Liège) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Belgian Science Policy Office (SD/EN/01A)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Urban and spatial planning
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Landscape and Cultural Studies
- Keywords
- everyday landscape, Dutch speakers, French speakers, anthropogenic landscapes
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