THE PROCESS OF LIVELIHOOD TRANSFORMATION IN RURAL TOURISM DESTINATIONS:ANEW PERSPECTIVE OF"ASSEMBLAGE THEORY"
With tourism becoming an important pathway for rural revitalization and the practice of the com-mon prosperity strategy,many rural areas in China have achieved livelihood transformation through the de-velopment of rural tourism industry.It is not difficult to find that the transformation essentially reflects an adaptive adjustment of the rural human-land relationship system which involves the complexity of relation-ship practice.From the perspective of"assemblage",it is urgent to answer the following research questions in studying the process of rural tourism destination livelihood transformation.How to understand the conno-tation and characteristics of rural tourism destination livelihood assemblage?What are the driving forces and process logic of the livelihood assemblage?Therefore,taking rural tourism destinations as the research ob-ject,starting from the practical and theoretical issues of rural tourism destination livelihood transformation,this paper introduces a post structuralism"assembly"perspective to scientifically study the assembly process and logic of rural tourism destination livelihood transformation.Firstly,a comprehensive and in-depth explo-ration was conducted on the applicability of the assembly theory based on its connotation;Secondly,the con-cept and characteristics of"rural tourism destination livelihood assemblage"were scientifically analyzed;Fi-nally,from the perspective of assembly,this paper interprets the process and relationship logic of livelihood welfare assembly space in rural tourism destinations during the initial,participation,development,decline or recovery stages of transformation driven by"desire"of positive productivity.