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{"title":"Beyond income: Professional objectives and job satisfaction of farmers. An empirical study in France","authors":"Soazig Di Bianco,&nbsp;Maha Ben Jaballah,&nbsp;Nejla ben Arfa,&nbsp;Bertille Thareau","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103599","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103599","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study evaluates the diversity of farmers according to their professional goals and determines the factors, beyond income, that contribute to farmers' job satisfaction. From the job characterization approach and the goal setting theory, it broadens the modeling of job satisfaction including a pre-definition of professional goals with farmers. A questionnaire and interviews were used to collect data. Mixed socio-economic research methods were used to analyze the collected data, particularly a multiple factor analysis and an ordinal logistic regression model. The results show a positive correlation at a statistically significant level between the use of digital tools, the presence of a potential successor and the level of achievement of their objective and the farmer's job satisfaction. On the other hand, specialization, years of service on the farm, off-farm work, and the presentation of economic objectives as a primary professional objective of the farmer, are statistically significant and negatively correlated with the level of job satisfaction of farmers. Our study points out the diversity of work conception among farmers and discusses their job satisfaction and its implications for thinking decent work in agriculture.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103599"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143436960","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":"Challenges for tourism-related lifestyle migrant entrepreneurship in rural areas of the Algarve, Portugal","authors":"Kate Torkington ,&nbsp;Marco Eimermann ,&nbsp;Filipa Perdigão Ribeiro ,&nbsp;Susana Conceição","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103562","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103562","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many rural areas in southern Europe have long suffered from outward migration but have recently been attracting new types of in-migration. This includes lifestyle migrant entrepreneurs (LMEs) seeking ways of improving their own quality of life and, at the same time, bringing new projects which aim to build on the potential and resources for rural tourism in their chosen destination place. Drawing on data from in-depth research interviews with LMEs and other stakeholders, this article stems from a research project focused on exploring tourism-related entrepreneurial lifestyle migration in the rural Algarve, in southern Portugal. Although this type of migration has often been identified as a potential driver for the sustainable development of both tourism activities and rural areas, this study focuses on the challenges identified, principally by the LMEs themselves, as regards the setting up, operationalisation and continuing activities of tourism-related businesses in rural areas of the Algarve. A variety of challenges were detected, at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels of the entrepreneurial migration process. The most recurrent problem faced is the level of bureaucracy and the difficulties encountered in legal processes. Although this is sometimes due to the language barrier, it is also related to the lack of clear information on procedures and the lack of specialised support. This finding points to the need for a greater level of cooperation and communication among the various stakeholders to ensure a more sustainable development of tourism in these rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103562"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143379389","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":"Trending discourses and silences around the role of women in wildfires: A systematic scoping review and some reflections from the field","authors":"Marien González-Hidalgo ,&nbsp;Ana Cabana Iglesia","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103553","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2024.103553","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In mainstream social imaginaries, wildfires are still a ‘manly’ issue. Addressing the question ‘how are women depicted in the literature of wildfires?’ this paper systematically analyses current literature on this subject. We identify five roles of women in a sample of 81 papers, and we show that women's roles are repeatedly structured as follows: women as impacted by wildfires, women as holders of particular knowledges and perceptions, women as firefighters, women as caregivers, and women as setters of fire. We supplement this analysis with our own observations from fieldwork in wildfires in Spain, Chile and Sweden. Our analysis of these roles allows us to depict a diversity of women's capacities, vulnerabilities and contradictions beyond discourses around virtuosity or victimhood; to discuss how and why women's various roles are unequally valued or avoided; and to consider the interconnection of gendered discourses on women and wildfires across geographies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103553"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143349962","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":"Disentangling the relationship between rurality and tourism from a peripheral rural area of Europe","authors":"Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros ,&nbsp;Auxiliadora González-Portillo","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103595","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103595","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To achieve a more complex understanding of the relationships between tourism and rurality, we need to deeper explore the extent to which tourism is part of the countryside. To do this, it is not enough to focus on how tourism constructs rurality, but rather on how the rural world appropriates tourism and makes it a defining element of rurality. This article illustrates the opportunity of this analytical perspective through an ethnographic case study in Andalusia (Spain) that helps us understand how and why tourism becomes an inherent element of rurality in peripheral rural areas of Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103595"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305171","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":"Local community participation of older village residents: Social differences and the role of expectations","authors":"Franziska Lengerer","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103591","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103591","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In rural areas characterised by ageing and declining populations and centralised public and private services, responsibilities for local processes are re-negotiated. In this context, older people's community participation and active ageing are increasingly encouraged in policy documents and discussed by researchers. This paper zooms in on the different ways in which older residents participate in their local communities in a rural region in Germany and how these are related to social differences, participation experiences and expectations. The structuring content analysis of 15 semi-structured interviews reveals that villagers participate, to different degrees, in three fields: local politics, associations and interest groups, and informal community activities. Individuals' experiences of participating in the community are identified as being shaped by complex interrelations between socioeconomic status, gender and residential history. Furthermore, older people's expectations to participate are found as mainly directed towards younger people and incomers. Descriptions of expectations they face encompass other residents' expectations as well as unspecified pressures due to limited means of the municipality. Interpreting these narrations of expectations as forms of responsibilisation, the analysis provides insights into ongoing re-negotiations of responsibilities and reveals the normativity of local community participation in a rural context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103591"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305160","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":"Urban newcomers as candidates in rural municipal elections: Explorations in the political dimension of lifestyle migration","authors":"Anja Decker","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103571","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103571","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The lived experience and the transformative effects of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration are key research interests of rural studies, but we know little about what happens when urban dwellers make use of their local voting rights after relocating to rural areas. The paper presents insights from ethnographic explorations in a peripherialized rural region of Czechia in which social and spatial disadvantages intersect. Using an agency framework to bring the scholarship of lifestyle migration into conversation with the literature on transforming modes of political participation, the paper investigates how lifestyle migration affects the subjective perceptions and practical enactment of political agency among both lifestyle migrants and other rural residents. The findings show that lifestyle migration into rural peripheries widens the room to manoeuvre for the newcomers and highlights the role electoral tools play in the emergence of new formations of local citizenship. However, when lifestyle migrants emerge as political actors, this can also trigger uncertainties, social distinctions and local power struggles. The contribution is intended to stimulate further conceptual work towards a nuanced understanding of the political realm of urban-to-rural lifestyle migration and point out promising avenues for further research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103571"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305172","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":"Gender as an entangled force: Gendered mining entanglements, labor organization and leadership structure in artisanal and small-scale mining","authors":"Francis Arthur-Holmes ,&nbsp;Patience Demor Matey","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103594","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103594","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Place-making practices and gender in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) have been documented in the literature. Yet, studies have not critically explored the interactions of spatial, material and sociocultural forces in the coproduction of gendered mining practices and leadership structure in ASM spaces. Drawing on a qualitative, ethnographic study on women in ASM in Ghana, we apply the concept of <em>mining entanglements</em> to examine the sociometerial and space-gender interactions in ASM settings to identify the <em>gendered mining entanglements</em> that cocreate gendered mining work patterns, leadership structure, and economic relations. Findings showed that ASM space – in terms of extraction (e.g., underground extraction, and surface extraction) and processing locations – were socially constructed for gender roles. Such spatial forces of ASM combined with entangled material forces – human bodies, mining tools/equipment and mining practices – and sociocultural forces (i.e. sociocultural discourse of women’s menstrual bodies) in the coproduction of gendered patterns of mining works, economic relations, and leadership structure. The spatial, material and sociocultural forces were used in the framing and theorization of gender <em>as an entangled force</em>, where each force can distinctively explain gender and how they dictate the economic roles of women and men. Findings further showed that the mining entangled forces intersected with various factors related to women – such as age, working experience, social connections, sexual relations, educational status and ethnicity – to cocreate micropolitics of everyday realities of gendered labor dynamics and economic power relations influencing women’s eligibility or qualification for site committee membership or leadership positions in ASM sites. Based on the gendered socioeconomic and political inequality, formalization efforts and interventions that seek to promote women’s economic empowerment and address barriers to female ASM participation should tackle the <em>gendered mining entanglements</em> impacting women's socioeconomic and health outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103594"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305157","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 online portrayal of urban farmers: Professionals’ perspectives on their influence on constructing farming-career paths","authors":"İlkay Unay-Gailhard ,&nbsp;Robert J. Chaskin ,&nbsp;Mark A. Brennan","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103586","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103586","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research extends existing studies on the role of alternative food movements in supporting new farmers. It focuses on the urban agriculture movement, particularly the online portrayal of urban farmers in social media, and its impact on constructing farming-career paths. Analyses explore the perspectives of professionals (N = 32) involved in urban farming initiatives (practitioners, policy professionals, and beginning urban farmers) in Pennsylvania and Illinois. The study uses qualitative thematic coding and aggregates the theoretical dimensions supported by contemporary career theories. Career aspiration, career intention, and career orientation are the career-construction paths that are the interests of the study. Findings suggest that portrayals of urban farmers are multi-faced: \"<em>smallness</em>,\" \"<em>diversity</em>,\" \"<em>guidance by moral values</em>,\" \"<em>innovativeness</em>,\" and \"<em>popularity</em>\" are the essential themes explaining farming-career aspirations. Farming-career exposure and career experiments via social media are values that drive planned or unplanned career intentions. The portrayal of urban farmers as moral achievers is perceived as a motivator in career orientation by activating relationally driven (inspirations gathered from online relationships) and protean (self-driven) attitudes. Overall, our study demonstrated that online portrayals of urban farmers can shape perceptions about careers within sustainable sectors, including agriculture-related professions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103586"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305158","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":"Peri-urban agriculture and food platformisation: Opportunities and challenges","authors":"Valentina Cattivelli ,&nbsp;Salvatore Pinna","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103568","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper offers a theoretical contribution by outlining both the opportunities and the challenges of food platformisation for peri-urban agriculture. The growing platformisation of the food sector is drastically transforming how food is produced, distributed, and consumed at the local level. Such transformations also impact agricultural practices in peri-urban areas. Specifically, they influence planning decisions related to urban sprawl, land consumption and environmental challenges, with a focus on sustainable practices. They also create several risks, including the marginalisation of small producers, the concentration of power in the hands of a small number of actors, and the homogenisation of agricultural practices.</div><div>Following a critical analysis of the current literature, the paper lists the possible effects of these changes and discusses potential pathways for addressing them with a series of suggestions. Its conclusions reorient the debate towards possible avenues to ensure that peri-urban agriculture can thrive in the era of platformisation and contribute to the transition towards a more equitable and resilient food system. They also outline the possible upward trajectory of food platformisation, recognising the consumer-centric opportunities it generates while also underscoring its consequential impacts on logistical operations and territorial planning decisions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103568"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305432","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":"Beyond agroecology versus organics: Alternative farmer subgroups in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina","authors":"Isaac Sohn Leslie","doi":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103587","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jrurstud.2025.103587","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Alternative farmers vary widely in their social and environmental practices, yet scholars and practitioners tend to portray alternative farmers as either a single group or dualistically divided between “big organics” and the radical rest (“agroecology” in Argentina). Through observation and 50 interviews, I trace the economic and social networks of alternative farmers in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, and find six subgroups: export organics, local organics, solidarity agroecology, unionized agroecology, extensive agroecology, and biodynamic agroecology. I argue that farmers' socioeconomic power and privilege mark the fault lines between subgroups and systematically affect farmers’ pathways into alternative agriculture, scale, crops grown, prioritization of labor, and relationship with the state. For alternative agriculture to realize its potential for environmental and social change, it must address the social and economic inequities among its farmers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":17002,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Rural Studies","volume":"115 ","pages":"Article 103587"},"PeriodicalIF":5.1,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143305159","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}