Elisabete Figueiredo

University of Aveiro | UA · Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences

Although studies on food and tourism have gained terrain within tourism research, especially in the last decade, the connections of food tourism with rural territories have remained underexplored. This is particularly significant in the context of an increasing recognition that food should be understood as a distinguishing feature of rural tourism...

Consumers’ food preferences increasingly meet concerns of authenticity, health, origin, and sustainability, altogether attributes embodied in rural provenance food products. The dynamics of production, commercialization, and availability of these products in urban centers are growing stronger. This study aims to explore rural provenance food consum...

This article analyzes how rural provenance foods are portrayed by the promotional materials, websites and social media issued by urban specialty stores in Portugal. Even though provenance food may be defined in multiple ways as, among others, local, regional, traditional, and authentic, provenance is mostly about territories of origin: their biophy...

O presente livro apresenta um conjunto de resultados obtidos no âmbito do projeto STRINGS. Importa referir que alguns dos resultados aqui divulgados foram já objeto de análise e discussão em conferências internacionais e nacionais sobre temáticas relacionadas com as várias dimensões estudadas no projeto. É igualmente importante referir que alguns d...

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Purpose Wine tourism has been growing considerably over the past decades. The literature highlights its relevance in the social, economic and cultural development of the regions where wine routes are located. However, few studies examine residents’ tourism impact perceptions and even fewer analyse the diversity of these perceptions. This study aims...

A Europa é um complexo de territórios rurais e urbanos, com as populações a viverem de formas muito diferentes, mas enfrentando desafios comuns. De facto, podemos considerar que as populações das cidades e dos campos são mutuamente dependentes, sendo necessário promover inter-relações mais duradouras entre estes territórios para um futuro mais sust...

In recent years, there has been a growing differentiative trend of food markets towards a logic of quality, presenting new opportunities for consumers, retailers and producers of rural provenance food products. Although these evolving food practices are still hybrid, combining dominant agro-industrial and productivist logics, alternative food netwo...

Consumers’ interest in rural provenance foodstuffs has increase during the last few decades, followed by a growing number of urban specialty shops selling these products. Despite their increase in urban contexts, and their role in fostering both the consumers’ interest and linkages with rural producers, their analysis is a recent topic. However, th...

There is a general trend of increasing urban population in cities worldwide in the coming decades, leading to an intensification of urban environmental impacts as well as the probability of cities becoming vulnerable to climate change impacts. In this sense, it is essential to increase their resilience, to better cope with climate change effects. A...

1. PURPOSE This presentation explores and compares the representations of rural provenance foods’ producers and distributors regarding rural territories, food products and agriculture, while presenting their main characteristics and unveiling their motivations, perceived impacts and challenges related to their activity. 2. METHODOLOGY Deriving fr...

Trata-se de um livro que resume dados recolhidos no âmbito do projeto Twine- Co-creating sustainable Tourism & WINe Experiences in rural areas O projeto analisou a natureza da experiência turística cocriada por visitantes, agentes da oferta e residentes locais, em destinos enoturísticos rurais, organizados por rotas, bem como os condicionantes dest...

INTRODUCTORY NOTE | Local and traditional food products have been attracting the interest of consumers, retailers, and producers, as well as the attention of politicians and academics in different research fields (e.g., agriculture, geography, sociology, anthropology, food studies, tourism). This relatively recent focus is related to the potential...

1. PURPOSE This presentation characterizes the main venues targeted by producers and distributors of rural provenance food products, also exploring which criteria guide their selection of collaborations, namely what characteristics are pursed by producers to choose retailers and intermediaries and by intermediaries to choose their producers and ret...

1. PURPOSE Despite the increase in policies regarding food certification labels and processes, there are distinct levels of knowledge and dissemination about European Union schemes and their impact is still less significant than other food quality criteria (Grunert and Aachman 2016). The present contribution focuses on how the main actors of rural...

1. PURPOSE This presentation explores the promotion of rural provenance products, comparing what aspects and specificities do urban specialty shops’ owners, producers and distributors choose to emphasize. It aims at contributing to the yet little explored topic of promotion of rural provenance foodstuffs from a multi-actor perspective. 2. METHODOLO...

1. PURPOSE A visible element of urban landscapes, particularly in city centers, is the display of products for sale in shop windows. The spatial arrangement and organization of goods and services have been a longstanding subject of consumption research. Studies placed closer to marketing studies tend to focus on assessing the effectiveness of this...

1. OBJETIVO A gastronomia e o vinho constituem aspetos muito importantes quando se trata de compreender a cultura e o estilo de vida de uma comunidade e de um destino turístico. Assim, o turismo gastronómico e o enoturismo podem constituir-se como uma plataforma colaborativa entre os turistas e as comunidades anfitriãs. Neste sentido, este estudo p...

1. PURPOSE Rural food producers, especially small-scale farmers and artisans, often face difficulties in accessing market conditions that provide them enough income to ensure the sustainability of their businesses and the communities they live in. Though the literature on Short Food Supply Chains has highlighted potential economic, social, and envi...

The main aim of this presentation is to present the key results of the STRINGS research project. The project is rooted is rooted in the well documented changes many rural areas, mainly in peripheral regions of Europe, Portugal included face since some decades ago. Due to these changes, mainly related with transformations in agricultural activities,...

The literature on food consumption and marketing has been mainly concerned with identifying the appeal of the physical and sensorial features of food products, consumer choice determinants and their profiling according to socioeconomic characteristics, and perceptions and practices. This paper takes a different approach by analyzing how consumers a...

There is a general trend of increasing urban population in cities worldwide in the coming decades, leading to an intensification of urban environmental impacts as well as the probability of cities becoming vulnerable to climate change impacts. In this sense, it is essential to increase their resilience, to better cope with climate change effects. A...

This article explores learning processes that underpin ecovillages as place based ‘sustainability initiatives’. Through the theoretical lens of place- based transformative learning (PBTL), developed in earlier work ( Pisters et al., 2019 , 2020 ), empirical data from life-story interviews and photovoice sessions from three ecovillages is analysed a...

The recent increase of rural provenance specialty food shops in Portuguese cities reflects both the blossoming of touristic influx as consumers’ demand for these foods (Silva et al, 2021). These shops’ role in fostering consumers’ interest and promoting rural-urban linkages is a recent topic (e.g. Mayer et al., 2016) the focus so far privileging ru...

Rural provenance food is gauging interest among consumers increasingly aware and knowledgeable about what they eat (Caputo et al., 2018). This interest has been accompanied by theincrease of specialty shops in urban context. The role played by these stores in fostering the consumption and in modelling how these products are portrayed and communicat...

New rural-urban linkages are being fostered in the Portuguese territory by urban specialty food stores. As privileged venues to promote traditional and locally produced products, their increasing number meets and elicits the interest of consumers on such foodstuffs (Silva et al., 2021) whilst contributing to its valorization and further agricultura...

As ligações entre o rural e o urbano têm sido frequentemente objeto de estudo em Portugal. Ainda assim, as assimetrias entre o rural e o urbano não deixaram de se acentuar ao longo das últimas décadas. A litoralização da população, a concentração populacional nas cidades juntamente com o ainda persistente êxodo rural, contribuíram para um desequilí...

In recent years, there was an increase in the number of rural provenance and specialty food stores, located in urban settings as ambassadors of a distinct and more connected approach to consumption vis-à-vis mass agri-industrial choices. The role of entrepreneurs in promoting rural-urban relationships and sustainable regional development has been r...

This paper intends to analyze foreign consumers representations and behaviors regarding Portuguese rural provenance food products. Based on data collected through a questionnaire applied to the customers of food stores located in Aveiro, Lisbon and Porto (N=1553), the paper focuses on the foreign customers (N=373) from 29 countries, especially Braz...

The global shift in consumers food preferences and determinants of food choice have been widely studied during the last few decades. This global shift is in line with the ‘quality turn’ identified by Goodman (2003) pointing out to a turn from mass consumption to a growing qualitative differentiation of food products. In this vein, labels as local,...

This book explores the notion of rurality and how it is used and produced in various contexts, including within populist politics which derives their legitimacy from the rural-urban divide. The gap between the ‘common people’ and the ‘elites’ is widening again as images of rurality are promoted as morally pure, unalienated and opposed to the cultu...

The growth of rural tourism and heritage industries, together with amenity migration and counter-urbanisation, the branding and marketing of local crafts and products and the marketisation of rural identities, as well as cultural products, produce and reproduce images of “authentic rurality” and turn rural territories into “consuming idylls”. Rural...

A fight for a freedom of driving and hunting thus becomes a fight for authentic rurality and, more importantly, it becomes a fight against those who are seen as oppressing the rural way of life. One of the perils of such performances of authenticity lies in their exclusiveness: there is only one “authentic” way of rural life. Rural authenticity lin...

the present paper focus is on how traditional rural food products are advertised and promoted within Gourmet or Specialty stores located in Aveiro, Lisbon and Porto, not only concerning their physical properties but also the narratives, symbols and images used to describe their producers, ways of production or preparation and, also, provenance rura...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore and typify the characteristics and diverse features of urban speciality stores selling rural provenance food, taking the case of three cities in Portugal. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on hierarchical cluster analysis, performed upon data collected from a survey to 113 shops, locate...

This chapter analyses children's participation in the social tourism programme promoted by the 'O Século' Foundation in Portugal. A literature review is first presented, which discusses both the constraints of poverty and social exclusion in childhood and the relevance of social tourism programmes in mitigating its effects and promoting social incl...

The aim of this chapter is to reflect on rural provenance food as cultural heritage, discussing at the same time its contribution to promoting rural development and renewed rural-urban connections in Portugal. This chapter takes a selection of urban retailers (the so-called gourmet or specialized stores) located in Lisbon, Portugal, as the starting...

The increase number of urban venues selling rural and locally produced foods is at par with an emerging interest of consumers in those products as opposed to more massified and industrial ones. This shift appears to partake a new form of rural urban relationship in which gourmet specialty stores may have a paramount role since they not only sell th...

At the beginning of twenty first century, countries of Southern and Mediterranean Europe were immersed in an uneven process of modernization and globalization, both in the material and cultural contexts. This restructuring process has taken a radical hit since the deep crisis faced by Europe over the recent years was particularly harsh in Southern...

In several parts of Europe, but particularly in Greece and Portugal, the economic crisis has reinforced positive and idyllic political and media narratives about rural areas as places of refuge, full of employment opportunities in agriculture and tourism-related businesses, especially for younger people. Through these narratives, rural areas have r...

The chapters included in this book represent a series of works about the impacts of the crisis in the diverse Southern and Mediterranean European rural territories. These chapters focus on the case studies with a clear qualitative perspective as a whole. Accordingly, the book can be read as a collection of snapshots in which we can observe a series...

In an earlier work, we suggested that connection, compassion and creativity could be used as key analytical dimensions of transformative place-based learning (Pisters et al. in Emot Sp Soc 34(8):100578, 2019). This analytical framework was created to study processes of place-based transformative learning which evoke shifts in our consciousness. Thi...

Construction of Portuguese rural provenance food as gourmand by urban specialty stores STRINGS-Selling The Rural IN (urban) Gourmet St ores-est ablishing new liaisons between t own and country t hrough t he sale and consumption of rural product s (PTDC/GES-OUT/29281/2017) https://www.stringsproject.pt/

This book sheds light on the effects of the financial and economic crisis in a diverse set of countries of Southern and Mediterranean Europe. Drawing on case studies from Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey, this book presents a broad and integrative perspective on the impact of the crisis in different rural territories, discussing the simil...

Nas três últimas décadas algumas transformações dos sistemas agroalimentares, como o crescimento do poder dos grandes retalhistas sobre os sistemas de produção e distribuição alimentar e a diminuição dos retornos das inovações tecnológicas, têm pressionado os pequenos produtores e retalhistas e colocado em causa a sustentabilidade das suas atividad...

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In recent decades, European rural development policies have transitioned toward a more place-based approach. This claim rests on the assumption that the diversity of resources within rural areas can be a potential source for place-shaping practices and sustainability. Moreover, this shift away from a top-down sectorial toward a more territorial foc...

The most critical question for sustainability research is how to facilitate transformative change. Yet, the academic scope of historical commons’ research is limited to institutional design and environmental sustainability. In this paper we argue for a transformative research agenda for historical commons focused on the study of processes building...

The use of food products in tourism supply has considerable increased during the last years. Consequently, in the last ten years the number academic papers dealing with the relationship between tourism and traditional and endogenous food products has also augmented. Food tourism or food and tourism has emerged as a frequently research topic in the...

Session Organized in the ambit of the 26th APDR Congress - Evidence-based Territorial policy making: formulation, implementation and evaluation of policy. The number of specialty food stores in urban areas in many European countries, Portugal included, has increased. This evidence together with the growing and well documented interest of consumers...

Despite the wide and well-documented transformations in rural areas in Europe, there are persistent and widespread assumptions that identify the rural as the opposite, and often alternative, to the urban and that portray the rural as unchanged and unchangeable. Frequently, those assumptions are based on a representation of the rural as ‘authentic’...

The aim of this contribution is to present a recently started research project that seeks to contribute to the understanding of the role of urban specialty stores selling rural provenance food products in fostering new or renewed rural-urban liaisons. Like in other European countries, there is growing evidence on the increasing number of this type...

Based on the content analysis of the websites of 60 ‘gourmet’ or specialty stores located in the historical hearts of Paris and Lisbon, we aim at discussing the role of urban stores in promoting both rural food products and rural territories. While there is a relative consensus regarding the increasing interest of (mainly urban) consumers in tradit...

the aims of this presentation are: To analyse the content of the news published in 4 Portuguese Newspapers, with different geographical coverage and distinct frequency, in order to: Know and analyse the CQE as a ‘media object’ and object of interest by regional and national media Contribute to rebuild the history of the CQE and of the collective m...

Recently we have seen the emergence of citizen-led community initiatives and civic enterprises, taking over governmental tasks in providing public services in various sectors, such as energy, care, landscape maintenance, and culture. This phenomenon can be explained by a renewed interest in community, place, and 'local identity'; the erosion of the...

Invited Talk at the European Society for Rural Sociology Autumn School - Social Innovation in and for Sustainable Food Provision

el estudio dirigido por Elisabete Figueiredo (Universidad de Aveiro), y realizado en colaboración con Jonathan Teles, se ocupa del caso de la región de Aveiro, en la franja costera central portuguesa como tipología de la ruralidad litoral. Los territorios litorales han sido considerados en relación con la gestión integrada de la costa, la sostenibi...

La fluctuación de las migraciones laborales, los desplazamientos pendulares de sus vecinos, los nuevos residentes estacionales y el sobreenvejecimiento de la población local, muestran una comunidad de demográficamente estancada y con importantes dificultades de accesibilidad. Como apuntan Figueiredo, Telles y Oliva en el Capítulo 3, Sao Jacinto per...

The main purpose of this presentation is to explore the narratives of former urban dwellers that have moved to (or started a business in) the countryside, following the financial and economic crisis, both in Greece and in Portugal. In both countries the effects of the crisis were devastating to diverse sets of actors and at several levels. Both cou...

Muitos territórios rurais da Europa têm progressivamente passado de lugares de produção a espaços de consumo, também em consequência das políticas nacionais e Europeias de desenvolvimento rural. As atividades turísticas, incluindo provas gastronómicas e aquisição de produtos agroalimentares tradicionais e localmente produzidos, detêm atualmente um...

The paper discusses the concept of the quality of life and its measuring. It tries to explain its peculiarities in the rural space considering different levels of education, professional activities, mobility, ways of dwelling, access to the social and technical infrastructure. The subjective perception of both urban and rural people to the rural qu...

Between the knowledge and power negotiation dynamics of all the actors involved (from winemakers to farmers, local authorities and other stakeholders like local cooperatives) there is a need to question if the current rural development strategies based on local food qualification schemes under Geographical Indications (GIs) are being implemented to...

Tendo em conta as transformações nas perceções sociais do risco, a um nível mais geral, assim como ao nível de contextos de trabalho que exigem o contacto e/ou o manuseamento de substâncias químicas perigosas, procuramos com este trabalho analisar as narrativas dos trabalhadores do Complexo Químico de Estarreja (CQE) relativamente aos riscos associ...

O potencial de desenvolvimento socioeconómico constitui um dos mais frequentes argumentos para a implementação da produção de energias renováveis, por parte de decisores políticos e académicos. Tal argumento assume particular importância quando a instalação se verifica, como é frequentemente o caso, em territórios rurais periféricos ou de baixa den...

A maior parte das áreas rurais na Europa, com particular destaque para as áreas rurais mais frágeis e periféricas, tem sofrido transformações dramáticas e complexas, especialmente devidas a processos de mudança mais globais. Tal circunstância faz com que, embora os territórios rurais sejam frequentemente entendidos, pela generalidade da opinião púb...

Uma boa parte das áreas rurais portuguesas, à semelhança do que acontece também em muitas regiões periféricas ou marginais no mundo ocidental, podem ser atualmente caracterizadas como frágeis, de baixa densidade (Oliveira Baptista, 2006), com reduzido capital social e possuindo escassas oportunidades de desenvolvimento socioeconómico. Tal situação...

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Invited Seminar on Rural Entrepreneurship, Alexander Technological and Education Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece

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Many rural territories across Europe have been progressively transformed (also as an outcome of European and national rural development policies’ orientations) from places of production into so-called multifunctional spaces, in which consumption oriented activities seem to play a central role (Halfacree, 2007). Tourism related activities, including...

Within the field of rural studies, there is nowadays a relatively well established interest in addressing social representations of the rural, although with few exceptions (see Overbeek and Terluin, 2006) an important part of the research seems to have been conducted in more central countries of Europe, leaving somehow behind other not-so-central r...

Já na década de 80, Nicole MATHIEU e Marcel JOLLIVET (1989) salientavam a identificação, essencialmente por parte dos habitantes urbanos, entre o rural, a natureza e o ambiente. Também Howard NEWBY (1979) numa obra seminal – The Green and Pleasant Land – chamava a atenção para a crescente valorização do campo através da natureza, percecionada como...

In recent years a great deal of attention has been given to geoparks potential in fostering rural development. Geoparks as tools to protect and promote natural and geological heritage, generally in high-valued mountain landscapes, may contribute to the development of new forms of nature and rural tourism and, consequently, to promote sustainable lo...

Este trabalho tem como objetivo principal o debate acerca da centralidade da natureza nas representações sociais dos territórios rurais como espaços turísticos. Neste sentido, com base em parte dos resultados de um projeto recentemente concluído 1, evidencia-se a identificação, tanto simbólica (no imaginário social) como material (nas atividades de...

Participação no programa Click da Antena 1, sobre o projeto 'A Fábrica e a Vida'

As a result of a well-debated set of transformations, rural areas are increasingly perceived as consumption rather than productive places, mainly associated to leisure and tourism. This paper aims to analyse the heterogeneity of domestic tourism consumption of rural areas. Based on a cluster analysis derived from a sample of the Portuguese populati...

The aim of this seminar is to present the results of a recent research about the meanings of the rural in Portugal, based on the conclusions of the project I recently have coordinated: ‘Rural Matters – Meanings of the Rural in Portugal: Social representations, consumptions and rural development strategies’. The project was funded by the Foundation...

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Nas últimas décadas não apenas as áreas rurais, no mundo ocidental e também em Portugal, se transformaram, como igualmente se alteraram os seus significados e representações sociais. Se as primeiras se encontram bem estudadas, os segundos – particularmente no que se refere aos contextos geográficos mais periféricos – encontram-se amplamente por exp...

Rural tourism is not very new in many parts of the world, but it has recently received increasing attention from researchers, politicians and managers alike. This is mostly due to new market trends, the growing recognition of the “rural crisis” and of the urge to solve it, as well as the belief in the potential of tourism as a development tool for...

This chapter aims to contribute, from a theoretical perspective, to the debate on the role of local actors, stakeholders and rural natural and cultural resources in the co-creation of rewarding rural tourism experiences. This debate is anchored to the broader discussion of the role rural tourism may play in fostering local sustainable development,...

Despite the growing hegemonic idyllic views on the rural in Portugal, following the tendency of other (more central) European and western countries, a diversity of rural social representations seem to emerge mainly related to historical, social and cultural specificities and, undoubtedly to the place rural areas and rurality possess in national eco...

Rural areas in Portugal, as in many other western countries have experienced during the last decades major transformations. They are nowadays reconfigured mainly as consumable places rather than productive spaces, due to major changes in the agricultural activities and in sociodemographic dynamics. Tourism and related activities are, to a great ext...

Desde há várias décadas que as áreas rurais portuguesas conhecem processos de reconfiguração multiformes que mais recentemente têm originado processos e dinâmicas de ‘turistificação’ e de ‘patrimonialização’. A promoção turística desempenha um papel relevante nestes processos, através da mobilização e uso de imagens e símbolos que formam o imaginár...