Keynote Lecture Recovering “We” in Local Communities under Population Decline From the Perspectives of Well-Being and “Conversation”

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In today’s data-driven society, as digital spaces continue to gain prominence, opportunities for face-to-face communication are increasingly being lost, particularly within local communities. The philosopher Richard Rorty argued that a sense of “we” is necessary in order to sustain and preserve community. How, then, might such a sense become possible today? Drawing on Rorty’s metaphor of the “bazaar and the club,” which distinguishes between the roles of public and private spaces and emphasizes that both are necessary for fostering rich forms of “conversation” within society, this keynote lecture examines these contemporary challenges.