Eco‐Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World*

IF 2.3 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI:10.1111/ruso.12575

Germán Jaraíz‐Arroyo, Esteban Ruíz‐Ballesteros, María Cristina Gálvez García

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Abstract

The dynamics of contemporary rural depopulation have been explained and addressed mainly as a result of structural transformations brought about by economic globalization. The influence of cultural/relational aspects has been less present in the scientific literature, where much of the analysis has been concerned with questions such as the effect of bond and attachment to the local. In connection with this matter, our paper explores how the interactions between social capital and community resilience dynamics affect decisions to leave or stay. The paper finds that the link between social capital and local resilience strategies is mediated by interdependent pattern. To understand how these connections are shaped and operate, we propose the notion of eco‐esteem, understanding it as a pattern of linkages with the socio‐ecosystem, determined by relationships and practices, which conditions people's attitudes, behaviors, expectations and, ultimately, their decisions to stay in or leave the rural world. To demonstrate the usefulness of this theoretical‐methodological perspective, we present a qualitative ethnographic case study in two municipalities in Extremadura (Spain), which are similar in their socio‐demographic characteristics, but which experience significantly different depopulation dynamics.

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生态自尊与人口减少：拓宽农村世界人口挑战的视野*

当代农村人口减少的动态主要是作为经济全球化带来的结构转型的结果来解释和处理的。在科学文献中，文化/关系方面的影响较少出现，大部分分析关注的是纽带效应和对当地的依恋等问题。关于这个问题，我们的论文探讨了社会资本与社区复原力之间的相互作用如何影响离开或留下的决定。论文发现，社会资本与地方复原力战略之间的联系是以相互依存的模式为中介的。为了理解这些联系是如何形成和运作的，我们提出了生态尊严的概念，将其理解为由关系和实践决定的与社会生态系统的联系模式，它决定了人们的态度、行为和期望，并最终决定他们留在或离开农村世界。为了证明这一理论-方法视角的实用性，我们在埃斯特雷马杜拉（西班牙）的两个城市开展了一项定性人种学案例研究。

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RURAL SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY-

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4.60

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13.00%

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期刊介绍： A forum for cutting-edge research, Rural Sociology explores sociological and interdisciplinary approaches to emerging social issues and new approaches to recurring social issues affecting rural people and places. The journal is particularly interested in advancing sociological theory and welcomes the use of a wide range of social science methodologies. Manuscripts that use a sociological perspective to address the effects of local and global systems on rural people and places, rural community revitalization, rural demographic changes, rural poverty, natural resource allocations, the environment, food and agricultural systems, and related topics from all regions of the world are welcome. Rural Sociology also accepts papers that significantly advance the measurement of key sociological concepts or provide well-documented critical analysis of one or more theories as these measures and analyses are related to rural sociology.