This presentation introduces the individually oriented landscape identity approach, the personal-existential identity of landscape, based on the Landscape Identity Circle created by Stobbelaar and Pedroli (2011). This view has a potential to bring together place-based visions that support regional distinctiveness and maintain continuity in the landscape, a significant knowledge for the policy makers. Here collectively invisible, yet individually significant places would have a potential to become socially acknowledged landscapes. We apply the personal-existential identity view with its four components (distinctiveness, continuity, self-esteem, and self-efficacy) to a historically rooted people based on three Estonian rural villages who have drawn on their place-bound memories and meanings to create an interconnected sense of self and materialised them in their surroundings. These meanings have materialised through the restoration of village borders, self-realisation in agriculture and civil governance, or enabling a particular place-bound lifestyle. Communicating self-oriented values connected to the place would strengthen locals’ continuity-oriented self-identity, self-esteem, and accordingly self-efficacy related to the area. Here is the significance of awareness about the ways of how one relates place attachment to the continuity of the self-concept, particularly in the areas of self-efficacy and self-actualisation. _x000D_
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Stobbelaar, D.J., & Pedroli, P. (2011). Perspectives on Landscape Identity: A Conceptual Challenge. Landscape Research, 36(3), 321–339._x000D_

Kadri Kasemets; Hannes Palang
Tallinn University, Centre for Landscape and Culture

 
ID Abstract: 473