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{"title":"Understanding migration aspirations using the extended theory of planned behavior: A case study from Western Province of Zambia","authors":"Eliška Masná ,&nbsp;Aneta Stoker ,&nbsp;Jiří Hasman ,&nbsp;Josef Novotný","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103501","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103501","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Migration is a crucial livelihood diversification strategy that can improve the living standards of many households in rural areas of the Global South. However, while most research focuses on international migration, less attention is paid to why people migrate internally or end up staying put. Contextual factors that can greatly affect the decision to migrate or stay in a given location have also been neglected. This paper attempts to contribute to understanding the complex drivers behind internal migration aspirations in rural regions with relatively immobile populations despite challenging economical and environmental conditions acting as potential drivers of migration. We link the theory of planned behavior with the aspiration-capability framework to propose a new integrative framework of factors affecting intentions to migrate. We then test the proposed framework through structural equation modeling using data from structured interviews with representatives of 460 rural households from the Western Province of Zambia. Our results suggest that the components of the theory of planned behavior have a mediating role in shaping internal migration aspirations. Their consideration allows for a deeper understanding of the complex drivers of internal migration and reveals how individual contextual variables can have conflicting effects on aspirations to move.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103501"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142757255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Can the participation of civil society in policy networks mitigate against societal challenges in rural areas?”","authors":"Evald Bundgaard Iversen ,&nbsp;Leonie Lockstone-Binney ,&nbsp;Bjarne Ibsen","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103495","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103495","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural areas increasingly face a raft of societal economic, social and place-based challenges, which civil society potentially has a role to play in mitigating. However, there are gaps in extant knowledge as to whether policy networks are present in rural areas and if they are, what, if any, role civil society plays in these in seeking to mitigate societal challenges in rural areas. Initially, we show how the societal challenges of rural areas may be addressed through policy networks. Policy network theory guides our analysis in eight rural areas in Denmark. The analysis is based on semi-structured interviews with 38 local stakeholders from in- and outside civil society. Based on the literature reviewed, we establish four dimensions that are important for the success of policy networks in mitigating societal challenges. In our analysis, we focus on these four dimensions in assessing the presence and role of policy networks in rural areas. The four dimensions describe the extent to which 1) collaboration occurs amongst a wide selection of representatives from civil society, other local stakeholders and local government, 2) steering from local government is characterized by ‘strategic signposting’ and trust, 3) local stakeholders are invited early into decision-making processes and influence them and 4) a mutual resource dependency is observed. We conclude by discussing to what extent the type of policy network found is able to mitigate the pressing societal challenges of rural areas and, finally, we make recommendations for how to support civil society in contributing to the mitigation of these societal challenges at three levels (local government, associations and citizens).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103495"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142744592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"With an eye on fire: Can neo-rural settlers create fire resilience in portugal?","authors":"Jacquelyn Chase","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103486","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103486","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the contributions of neo-rural settlers to fire resilience in central Portugal, an area that has suffered from population decline and land abandonment for decades. An analysis of qualitative data from interviews with neo-rural settlers shows that they could be valuable partners in attempts to bolster several priorities of fire management in Portugal, including strengthening the property regime, creating a diversified rural landscape, and fostering collaborative networks in fire-affected areas. This article also presents some of the constraints that the settlers face in establishing themselves as agents of local landscape change and fire mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103486"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Short-term gain, long-term loss: Exploring the effects of Covid-19 survival strategies on rural livelihoods and the agrarian economy","authors":"Daniel Siaw ,&nbsp;George Ofosu ,&nbsp;David Sarpong","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103523","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103523","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this paper, we explore how the practices of agricultural chain actors within the contingencies of the Covid-19 crisis, may have contributed to precarious rural livelihoods and the agrarian economy. Developing our contribution in the context of Ghana's agricultural sector, which is grappling with socio-economic and sustainability challenges such as land degradation, climate change, and biodiversity loss, we identified salient survival practices in the actions adopted during the Covid-19 pandemic which resulted in short-term gain, but also accounted for the long-term intractable decline in production and for producers' wellbeing. Explicating a fine analysis of how individual practices induced by the pandemic may have contributed to foster a decline in the agrarian economy, our study goes on to shed light on the devastating outcomes of the pandemic on rural livelihoods and the agrarian economies often marked by weak institutions and underdeveloped markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103523"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconceptualizing the youth and waithood notions: African youth agency and rural livelihoods in artisanal and small-scale mining","authors":"Francis Arthur-Holmes ,&nbsp;Thomas Yeboah","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103513","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103513","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper seeks to revisit the notion that Africa's youth are caught up in waithood by providing empirical data and critical analysis of the perspectives of youth engaged in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM). Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews from multiple episodes of research in Ghana, we offer seven (7) key findings to argue that the situation of African youth is far more complex and nuanced than the simple portrayal that they are stuck in waithood – i.e. unable to enter the formal labor market to attain respectful adulthood. Thus, our findings offer three (3) perspectives which reflect better the reality of the African youth, enabling us to reconceptualize waithood experiences: <em>Time-bound waithood</em> or <em>waithood temporality</em>, <em>Survival-hood</em>, and <em>Ensnared waithood</em>. The time-bound waithood or waithood temporality reflects a situation where the youth choose to participate in informal sector activities like ASM as a temporal livelihood strategy or as a transition process while negotiating access to well-paid jobs in the formal sector that offer job security. The survival-hood is where youth <em>assert</em> their individual and collective agency to participate in informal sector jobs (in this case, ASM operations) as a survival mechanism, reflecting different livelihood possibilities and complementarities. The ensnared waithood reflects the situation where some youths are caught up in a web of their socialization process or enculturation which implants in their minds that good jobs are those of formal sector or salaried employment which are primarily based in the urban economy. From these perspectives, we argue that waithood is <em>both</em> a process (i.e. transitional) and an end in itself depending on the situation in which the youth perceive formal labor jobs and the willingness to utilize their agency to <em>create</em> their own work or secure informal sector jobs amidst structural constraints or neoliberal policies inhibiting employment for young people in the formal labor market. Based on our findings, we develop a <em>Youth agency outcome framework</em> <em>(YAOF)</em> which highlights how structural constraints (such as government policies, neoliberal policies, social norms and regulations within an economic sector) serve as an impediment to formal sector employment for tertiary graduates (educated youths). The framework further highlights how structural constraints trigger the utilization of capital assets in determining and influencing youth agency in the exploration and subsequent participation in informal sector jobs like ASM and the associated outcomes – such as financial independence, sustainable income, economic support for family members, marriage, and household formation – for the youths involved in the economic activity. Our findings provide critical implications for youth employment policies, interventions, and programs in Africa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103513"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trust rebuilding through village co-construction","authors":"Junjun Li ,&nbsp;Luan Chen ,&nbsp;Ye Long ,&nbsp;Jin Wang ,&nbsp;Xun Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103474","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103474","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural construction is an important means of rural revitalization in China, and the construction of trust among multiple subjects is the key to the success. Especially in traditional villages with national protection status, the cognitive differences between individuals and the state aggravate the conflicts and trust crisis between grassroots organizations and villagers in the construction of rural housing. Simmel believes that trust is a leap of knowledge and belief under the joint action of rationality and sensibility. Many scholars have tried to analyze and deconstruct the \"leap of trust\" from multiple disciplines, but there are few practical cases, and the specific path with the rural background of China is not clear. The purpose of this study is to study the reconstruction of trust in village by focusing on the co-construction of villages, because the mode of co-construction of village is not only in line with traditional cultural customs, but also the main trend of promoting rural development in China. Based on the empirical investigation of rural housing construction in Tangfang Village, Yunnan Province, China, this paper studies the links among trust remodeling, university participation and multi-subject co-construction, and explores the elements and path of trust construction under the intervention of the third party of universities in rural construction. The empirical analysis points out that there are six elements of trust construction in the multi-subject co-construction of traditional village, including moral integrity, interest relationship, knowledge and technology, achievement expectation, value sharing and daily interaction, and the dynamic process of rural trust construction accompanied by multi-subjects eating, living and working together goes through four stages, namely, no trust, rational trust, experience trust and deep trust. There are two conclusions in this paper. Firstly, participating in rural construction can construct the trust relationship between university team members and villagers. Secondly, as a third-party media, universities can help to rebuild the trust relationship between villagers and grassroots organizations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103474"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The remapping of rural digitalisation: A just-rural narrative review","authors":"Koen Salemink ,&nbsp;Leanne Townsend ,&nbsp;Polly Chapman","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103499","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103499","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Studies on digital issues in rural development usually build on concepts that stem from literature on urban contexts. This urban dependence in rural research bears the risk of conceptual blind spots, and missing factors that might be relevant for the rural. In this paper, we present a narrative review on the development of 'digital rural studies'. We start from two earlier review papers that often serve as a departure point for rural scholars who work on digital issues. Different to urban-based studies on digitalisation that use a more generic social inequalities framework, rural studies acknowledge the existence of both urban-rural and intra-rural divides, as well as material and social divides. By combining the latest state of the art studies and our own experiences from digitalisation projects, we construct an updated narrative that helps to shape a more rural-just framework, and shows how the 'rural' and the 'digital' mutually shape each other. By applying the concept of remapping to rural digitalisation, we show that digitalisation is formed <em>in, from</em> and <em>by</em> place, and future studies need to acknowledge this.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103499"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of people's creativity and networks on spatial localisation - Locals, multi-locals, newcomers or returnees as an opportunity for civic engagement in rural areas","authors":"Lena Greinke ,&nbsp;Maria Rammelmeier","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103514","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103514","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rural areas and civic engagement are influenced by ongoing transformation processes. Due to a strong sense of belonging among people in rural areas, along with both historical and emerging engagement structures, civic engagement in these areas plays an important role. This paper deals with spatial localisation through the lens of multi-locals, newcomers or returnees presenting them as an example of potential opportunities for civic engagement. It utilizes theoretical approaches to creativity and engagement as endogenous resources for regional development. By combining the empirical results of two doctoral theses, which used guided qualitative interviews, reflexive photography and egocentric network maps as methods, the paper aims to analyse the extent to which the localisation of multi-locals, newcomers or returnees impacts civic engagement and how rural areas can benefit from civic innovations. The study shows that engagement has different characteristics in rural areas. The personal localisation of volunteers influences the type of engagement. Supra-local engagement offers an opportunity to stay connected and sustain involvement, but \"genuine\" engagement happens at the local level. The example of multi-locals and engagement in the special field of cultural activities illustrates an opportunity for innovation in rural regions. The multi-locals and the cultural actors, as \"strangers\" or \"newcomers\" bring new impressions and skills (from urban areas) to rural regions and communities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103514"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142721382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sense of place in providers’ perspectives of school placement policies in relation to refugee settlement in rural Sweden","authors":"Per-Åke Rosvall ,&nbsp;Elisabet Öhrn ,&nbsp;Dennis Beach ,&nbsp;Monica Johansson ,&nbsp;Maria Rönnlund","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>During the initial phase of the refugee wave in 2015 rural municipalities in Sweden were obliged for the first time to receive refugees. Some rural officials welcomed refugees in hopes that it would counter population declines and future staffing problems. Some officials also referred to rural areas as idylls for reception, well equipped for reception arguing that small places are better for integration. This raised placement issues, which varied widely among three identified categories of municipalities (tourist towns and/or sparsely populated areas, de/industrialised towns, and small villages). We explored these issues by interviewing respondents in 21 municipalities. We selected three municipalities to represent the three categories and analysed responses of our informants within them to obtain insights into their views of the refugees' reception and associated issues. For this we applied a Masseyian ‘sense of place’ and ‘power geometry’ theoretical framework. Wide variations among municipalities were reported. However, common themes included: a lack of relevant training initially; rapid establishment of organisational arrangements and competences; segregation in some municipalities due to placement in segregated housing (which raised informants' awareness of social class-based divisions); and changes in status or requirements for migrants to relocate (with very little warning) that severely impacted the refugees' transitions. The results clearly indicate needs for more long-term and robust policies to avoid problems associated with refugees' ‘liminal citizenship’ and weak power, with consequent impacts on their educational transitions and subsequent prospects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103509"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Interconnected water scarcities and environmental amenities migration in rural Chile","authors":"Chloé Nicolas-Artero ,&nbsp;Xenia Fuster-Farfán ,&nbsp;Ana Malhue-Huaico","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103502","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103502","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper explores the repercussions of amenity migration on rural communities' access to water through a comparative analysis of three case studies in Chile. It examines the concept of rural drinking waterscapes to elucidate how access to water is dependent upon a metabolic process, wherein social, political, economic, and technical elements contribute to the construction of rural landscapes. This notion implies paying close attention to the daily practices of water access at the household level through ethnographic methods (multiplying interviews and observations), thus uncovering unregulated water habits and uses. The results underscore the pivotal role played by the State in shaping the desirability of these localities, attracting both capital and upper-class population influx. This socio-demographic shift triggers significant changes in land-use patterns, resulting in an amplified and diversified demand for water. The study identifies that water scarcity is a multifaceted issue, stemming from the intricate interplay of various scarcities occurring simultaneously across different scales. These include: 1) infrastructure scarcity, arising from households' inability to connect to the communal water network; 2) service management scarcity, induced by operational failures that reduce water pressure or increase supply interruptions; 3) economic scarcity, resulting from water organisation budget constraints or residents’ inability to meet water bills; and 4) overexploitation scarcity, emanating from the excessive consumption of groundwater resources. Notably, these different forms of scarcity are interconnected. The responses of local populations and governing committees are identified as central to this intricate chain of causation, as they can inadvertently create new scarcity scenarios and exacerbate inequalities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103502"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}