The Art of Living as a Community: Profiguration, Sustainability, and Social Development in Rapa Nui

Molina, Fidel

doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176798

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2020-08-21

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Molina, Fidel

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Molina, Fidel; . (2020) . The Art of Living as a Community: Profiguration, Sustainability, and Social Development in Rapa Nui. Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, núm. 17, p. 6798-6798. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176798.

Abstract

This article analyzes the challenges faced by the inhabitants of the island of Rapa Nui in connection with climate change-related environmental and socio-economic problems, and the survival of the islanders' cultural identity and their very sustainability. A qualitative research methodology was adopted, using observation and in-depth interviews within a life course approach. An innovative and creative methodology was employed, cross-referencing and comparing data from 2011 and 2020. This methodology has led to the further strengthening of a new concept in sociology and the social sciences in general: profiguration (intergenerational and interdependent socialization). Based on the results of this study, some analytically robust descriptions were made of the socio-cultural and environmental situation in Rapa Nui, and of an increasingly sustainable social development model. It is a model of social development that is on the way to being sustainable, intercultural, intergenerational, and promoted by the community.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10459.1/69498

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https://doi.org/10.3390/su12176798

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Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, núm. 17, p. 6798-6798

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