Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1678801
J. Araya, Carla Azócar, Carlos Azócar, Alberto Mayol
{"title":"Exploring the daily life of mining communities: the case of Antofagasta, Chile","authors":"J. Araya, Carla Azócar, Carlos Azócar, Alberto Mayol","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1678801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1678801","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Social sciences have documented the economic and social impacts of mining activities on communities around the world, showing mining towns and villages, on the one hand, present high economic growth and, on the other, have problematic quality-of-life indicators. In this article, we present the results of an extensive ethnographic study of one city in northern Chile, Antofagasta, located in a region where about half of the country's total copper production is concentrated. We sociologically explore these trends and document how they are interconnected and configure specific ways of living and inhabiting a place. Far from disproving the problematic relationship between social development and the mining industry, we reflect on the interrelatedness of the impacts of mining projects and suggest analytical clues for an ecological study of mining cities.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"226 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1678801","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47884730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1658285
W. Kaye-Blake, Kelly A. Stirrat, Matthew J. Smith, S. Fielke
{"title":"Testing indicators of resilience for rural communities","authors":"W. Kaye-Blake, Kelly A. Stirrat, Matthew J. Smith, S. Fielke","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1658285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1658285","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The resilience of rural communities is a concern, both in itself and for its effects on the agricultural sector. This article investigates the possibility of using official statistics to measure community resilience. Specifically, it tests the possibility of identifying resilience thresholds for key indicators. Using community workshops to investigate the drivers of resilience among residents of four rural communities in New Zealand, the analysis compared self-reported ratings against indicators from official data sources. The self-reported ratings of overall community resilience tended to be more influenced by economic and institutional drivers than social, cultural, or environmental drivers. In addition, the overall self-reported resilience ratings tended to match estimations of resilience based on official statistics. By showing it is possible to identify resilience thresholds for these indicators, the research provides a method for improving quantification of community resilience and offers estimates of the extent of resilience at a given point in time.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"161 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1658285","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41428458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1651483
A. Ofuoku
{"title":"Social inclusion of rural-rural migrant arable crop farmers and agriculture production in Delta State, Nigeria","authors":"A. Ofuoku","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1651483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1651483","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study was conceptualised to determine the influence of social inclusion on rural-rural migrant arable crop farmers’ level of agricultural production. A sample of 254 rural-rural migrant arable crop farmers identified by key informants. Findings revealed farmers had a mean age of 45 and were mostly married females who had completed secondary education, had an average of 15 years farming experience. Average farm size was 2.5ha and annual mean crop output ranged from 1000 to 25,000 kg (1–25 metric tons). Most had membership in farmers’ groups and contact with two extension agents monthly. Their level of social inclusion at a community level was lower (inclusion index = 0.68) than at the farmers’ group level (inclusion index = 0.85). Social inclusion of rural-rural migrant farmers achieved significance to level of crop output at the farmers’ group level. Socioeconomic attributes, such as gender, marital status, level of formal education, years of farming experience in host communities, and monthly extension contact, contributed to farmers’ level of social inclusion. It is recommended that social inclusion of rural-rural migrant farmers in their host communities should be encouraged and sustained; social inclusion of migrant farmers in farmers’ groups should also be sustained and encouraged by the public agricultural extension agency and related non-governmental organisations, with those in communities that had not subscribed to membership of such groups encouraged to do so.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"144 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1651483","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42098366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1645426
Dominic Peel, J. Schirmer, H. Berry, Léan V. O'Brien
{"title":"Farm exit, wellbeing and autonomy: a quantitative analysis of exited farmers in Australia","authors":"Dominic Peel, J. Schirmer, H. Berry, Léan V. O'Brien","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1645426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1645426","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In many developed countries, the number of farmers working in commercial agriculture continues to decline with more likely to leave in the future. The act of farming and autonomy of farming work are central to farmers’ identity. Although loss of autonomy when exiting farming may pose a threat to identity and reduce farmer wellbeing, these are notable gaps in existing social research. This article retrospectively examines farmer autonomy and wellbeing in a sample of 412 Australian exited farmers. Regression modelling showed those who reported lost autonomy when leaving farming reported consistently lower levels of wellbeing than those who did not lose autonomy. Supports that assist farmers to maintain their autonomy during and after exiting the occupation may help to protect against stresses associated with farm exit and improve wellbeing outcomes for exited farmers.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"108 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1645426","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46621181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1645429
Chelsea N. Kaufman
{"title":"Rural political participation in the United States: alienation or action?","authors":"Chelsea N. Kaufman","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1645429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1645429","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Globally, concern has risen over support for authoritarian populism, in some cases specifically among rural populations. Rural influence, however, may be limited by relatively low political participation. This article examines participation in the United States, where past evidence shows rural Americans have been less involved in politics than their urban counterparts. Analysis of American National Election Studies (ANES) data from 1952 to 2012 shows historically less participation for rural residents relative to suburban and urban residents. Between 1988 and 2008, low political trust, a negative economic outlook, high external efficacy, and being more ideological and partisan are associated with increased political participation. These findings imply rural Americans with polarised views who feel deprived of political and economic power may participate more frequently in future political activities. Concurrently, similarly polarised circumstances in urban areas and low rural political efficacy may lead the rural-urban participation gap to persist.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"127 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1645429","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45775465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1656394
Breda McCarthy, A. Kapetanaki, Pengji Wang
{"title":"Circular agri-food approaches: will consumers buy novel products made from vegetable waste?","authors":"Breda McCarthy, A. Kapetanaki, Pengji Wang","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1656394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1656394","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article discusses the challenges associated with managing waste in the horticultural sector by presenting the circular economy framework as a solution to the problem of food waste. The research focuses on consumers’ role and value adding as one strategy that transforms food waste for reuse in accordance with a circular economy. A structured questionnaire was collected from a sample (n = 330) of Australian households to assess consumers’ willingness buy food derived from underutilised biomass. The survey found half of the sample was willing to buy value-added food. Helping Australian farmers was the top-ranking factor driving demand. Awareness of the food waste problem is significant in distinguishing consumers who are willing to buy value-added food from those who are not. Marketing recommendations for communication design a circular economy are to stress empathy and care for farmers and highlight the consequences of food waste for both the natural environment and people.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"107 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1656394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45048884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1576294
Shahab Nazariadli, D. Morais, Kyle S. Bunds, Perver K. Baran, Stacy Supak
{"title":"Rural tourism microentrepreneurs’ self-representation through photography: a counter-hegemonic approach","authors":"Shahab Nazariadli, D. Morais, Kyle S. Bunds, Perver K. Baran, Stacy Supak","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1576294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1576294","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT American rural social geography has been subjected to simplified and standardised projections and stereotyping by hegemonic tourism media. Urban-centred advertising of rural tourism destinations is a powerful medium in creating hegemony and hierarchy between urban and rural communities. The act of representing rural social geographies through tourism creates discourse which dialectically creates and reinforces the modified social status quo of rural societies. Hence, aiming for social change and to magnify the rural subaltern voice, this article adopted auto-photography as an ethnographic participatory method. Fourteen rural tourism microentrepreneurs from the Piedmont region of North Carolina, United States, participated in self-representational photography of the aspects of life they wished to share with urbanites. Interviews were conducted using participants’ favourite photos as prompts. Critical discourse analysis was employed to identify rural tourism microentrepreneurs’ self-representations that counter urban-normativity. Findings show microentrepreneurs resisted and complied with an urban-normative tourism-based ideological hegemony.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"29 - 51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1576294","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47893217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2019.1572310
D. Sarkar, K. Kundu
{"title":"The role of independent retailers in sustaining rural society: a study in rural India","authors":"D. Sarkar, K. Kundu","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2019.1572310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2019.1572310","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Retailing is the largest non-farm occupation in rural India. Unorganised retailers provide support for rural socioeconomic life by disseminating information, ensuring availability of goods/services, providing credit to villagers, and allowing barter systems in India. These indicate the embeddedness of unorganised retailers in India’s rural societies. Store premises in villages are the hubs of social interactions, yet chain stores are not seen to enable such benefits for villages. Hypotheses about the importance of rural retailer independents are developed in light of existing literature. This article presents findings from a survey constructed to research independent retailers by collecting a stratified random sample of villagers in the state of West Bengal, India. Survey responses were subjected to an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to determine latent constructs. Seven identified constructs were confirmed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Structural equation modelling (SEM) helped determine the relationships of six antecedent factors with the resultant factor, namely, the need for preservation, and the sustainability of rural independents discussed.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"52 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2019.1572310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48469679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rural SocietyPub Date : 2019-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10371656.2018.1558946
R. Roult, H. Carbonneau, É. Belley-Ranger, Isabelle Brunet, Jean-Marc Adjizian
{"title":"Rural leisure opportunities for people with disabilities: needs and challenges in Quebec","authors":"R. Roult, H. Carbonneau, É. Belley-Ranger, Isabelle Brunet, Jean-Marc Adjizian","doi":"10.1080/10371656.2018.1558946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10371656.2018.1558946","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The issue of leisure for people with disabilities is central as the practice of these activities helps counteract certain problems of sedentariness, social isolation or stigmatization. This problematic is even more complicated in rural areas, where limited means, as well as geographical location and scope slow down certain avenues of leisure development for these challenged populations. The objective of this study was to seek to understand the realities experienced by partners of the Quebec Association for Leisure of People with Disabilities. Through focus groups and semi-directed interviews conducted with 70 local actors, this study highlights the fact that these challenged populations can enjoy a fair amount of leisure time, although it is increasingly difficult to maintain due, in particular, to precarious financial and human situations. The analyses also suggest that future challenges regarding this issue will be linked to partnerships, planning and programming considerations.","PeriodicalId":45685,"journal":{"name":"Rural Society","volume":"28 1","pages":"1 - 14"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10371656.2018.1558946","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43200527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}