Generating social sustainability through placemaking: a study of everyday lived space in Basha Miao settlement
Xiong, Yuan and Li, Zhuozhang (2023) Generating social sustainability through placemaking: a study of everyday lived space in Basha Miao settlement. In: Towards a carbon neutral future. Springer. (In Press)
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This paper explores the role of placemaking in the process of creating social sustainability, through the everyday practice of minority ethnic communities in traditional Miao settlements in Guizhou. Most settlements in Guizhou, the South-West mountainous region of China located in isolated or remote areas. With the implementation of the national policy by the Chinese authority, the built environment in this region has rapidly developed in recent decades. This transformation of spatial conditions in the local communities, as well as the effects of the tourism economy and modernisation, has profoundly challenged the traditional construction methods, living habits, practices, and social structure of local residents/communities. From the perspective of everyday life, resonating with key scholars such as Bruno Latour and Henri Lefebvre, this paper examines how social sustainability is generated through the relationships among local residents, their practices and the living environment. By mapping the practices, the sites and the social networks in the process of placemaking in traditional Miao settlements, the paper investigates different meta-dimensions of social sustainability such as social justice, social network, safety and social cohesion. This study aims to reveal how peoples’ everyday life practices (re)produce, (trans)form and (re)configure their public space in traditional Miao settlements.
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