Constructions of rural childhood: challenging dominant perspectives

Educational outcomes across the generational and gender divide: the rural family habitus of Pakistani families living in poverty

“…The relationship between rurality, gender and education is complex not least because it is often viewed through the lens of urban realities or through hegemonic gender discourses that privilege interpretations from the Global North (Arnot and Fennell 2008). Empirical research on gender and rurality, for example, is often focused on advanced economies such as New Zealand (Powell, Taylor, and Smith 2013), Australia (Pini, Price, and McDonald 2010) and Norway (Haugen and Lysgård 2006). From such perspectives, not only are rural families in the Global South seen as the most disadvantaged but, from a gender perspective, they are often portrayed as the most hidebound by oppressive patriarchal traditions (Kenway, Kraack, and Hickey Moodey 2006;Connell 2007).…”

“…Rural family habitus and masculine domination: a Bourdieusian framework In the absence of a proper generative theory of rurality (Balfour, Mitchell, and Moletsane 2008, 97), there is a danger of accepting or using models of 'the rural' which Powell, Taylor, and Smith (2013) have rightly challenged as inadequate. On the one hand, the dominant model uses a romanticised notion of the 'rural-idyll' (126) which was characterised as 'better and safer for the family, with greater freedom for children, supportive communities and the benefits of being closer to nature' (127).…”

Education and the global rural: Feminist perspectives

“…(Morojele 2013;Powell, Taylor, and Smith 2013); geographies of rural youth (Pini and Morris, forthcoming); rural masculinities (Pini 2008) and; rural sexualities/queer rurals (Gorman-Murray, Pini, and Bryant 2013;Keller, forthcoming).…”

The Ambiguous Experience of Motherhood in the Western Bohemian Countryside: Exploring Rural Gender Inequalities Through the Framework of Precarity

“…The collective perception of a rural childhood as an ideal way of growing up is well reflected in literature (Valentine 1997;Powell et al 2013) and is linked to the cultural concept of the rural idyll (Rapport & Overing 2000, p. 315-321;Woods 2011). To Klára and other female informants, the ideal of a rural childhood manifests itself particularly in accounts of the life phase when their children were very young.…”