1998/04/01 by Christopher Ray · 6 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Social Sciences · #Cultural Industries and Urban Development #Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences #Rural development and sustainability
paper · doi:10.1111/1467-9523.00060
openalex publication_date 1998/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
This paper explores some of the uses of local cultural identity in European rural development, particularly in the latter’s shift towards local territorial activity. It proposes the term ‘cultural economy’ and a four‐way typology. In order to contribute to a theorization of such development activity – whether policy driven or emerging from the ‘bottom‐up’– local cultures are characterized as forms of intellectual property that may allow local rural economies to impose some level of control over social and economic development.