Embodied rural geographies: Developing research agendas

Little, Jo; Leyshon, Michael

doi:10.1191/0309132503ph427oa

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“…Bale 2003Bale , 2004, critical scholars of both sport and nature-society relations have been much less attentive to this interrelationship. Indeed, social studies of sport have tended to neglect its geographies 2 while social scientific studies of nature and natural environments, particularly those in human geography, have been little concerned with the body (Woodward, 1998;MacNaughton and Urry, 2000;Little and Leyshon, 2003). This paper responds to this neglect by exploring the production of performance middle and long-distance running bodies and the role of particular -'natural' -spaces in this process.…”

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An Exploration of the Co-production of Performance Running Bodies and Natures Within “Running Taskscapes”

Howe

Morris

2009

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This paper explores the interrelationship between particular 'natural' spaces and the production of middle and long-distance performance running bodies. It argues that running bodies and nature are actively co-produced, thus blurring the commonly made distinction between the 'social' and the 'natural'. In doing so, the paper extends the geography of sports literature by adopting a 'postconstructivist' perspective on nature as elucidated in Tim Ingold's (2000) concepts of 'dwelling' and 'taskscape'. This illuminates the (re)production of sporting bodies through the materiality of nature and in turn contributes to research on embodiment within sports studies that highlights the importance of space and the natural environment. The paper draws on ethnographic material and textual sources to illuminate the running taskscape associated with the production of performance running bodies and highlights how three forms and functions of nature are co-produced through this mode of dwelling.

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An Exploration of the Co-production of Performance Running Bodies and Natures Within “Running Taskscapes”

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Morris

2009

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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“…Just as there is no one 'rural', neither is there a uniform 'rural masculinity' (Campbell and Bell, 2000;Cloke, 2005;Little and Leyshon, 2003). In an attempt to avoid the pitfalls of constructing a singular or essentialist 'rural masculinity', Campbell and Bell (2000) articulate the distinction between, on the one hand, the "masculine in the rural" and, on the other, the "rural in the masculine".…”

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“…One dominant coding, scholars have noted, is that of the 'rural idyll' (Valentine, 1997). According to the ethos of the 'rural idyll', remote places are understood as safe, free, close to nature, peaceful, innocent and healthy communities where "everybody knows everybody" (see Leyshon, 2008;Little and Leyshon, 2003;Matthews, Taylor, Sherwood, Tucker and Limb, 2000;Ni Laoire, 2007;Rye, 2006). Indeed, such qualities overlap with and inform constructions of the 'rural childhood idyll' (Jones, 1997(Jones, , 2000(Jones, , 2007, where it is assumed that the countryside is the 'natural' place of childhood (Valentine, 1997).…”

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“…Given the link between masculinity and representations of masculinity in the rural, Little and Leyshon (2003) suggest that the task is to interrogate how particular forms of the body and bodily practice gain power within specific rural contexts by taking up and embodying constructions of 'the rural'. Dominant constructions of 'Nature' code it as feminine (e.g.…”

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Playing in the woods: youth, leisure and the performance of gender relations in rural Newfoundland

Norman

Power

Dupré

2011

Annals of Leisure Research

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Based on qualitative interviews and focus groups with youth (12-24 years) living in rural, coastal Newfoundland, Canada, we examine how leisure practices within this context served to reproduce and naturalise localised gender relations. More specifically, we argue that the participants drew upon dominant discursive constructions of rural leisure to reiteratively enact a binary distinction between the 'town' as a space of constraint, youthadult tensions, and consumerism in contrast to the freedom and privacy of the 'woods'. This dichotomy was mapped onto gender binaries, where the town was coded as feminine and the woods masculine. We argue that these constructions served to mark the boundaries of normative gender leisure practices in the production of embodied gender subjectivities.

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“…At the same time, new research areas that may be added to the previous ones are being gradually developed including, in particular, works from the field of the geography of food, which examines the connections among production, consumption, and presentation (Goodman, 2001), farming cultures (Moris & Evans, 2004), and the facilities in rural space and bringing together experiences of rurality (Little & Leyshon, 2003). For needs of this paper, our focus will, therefore, be shifted away from the wider context of rural changes towards agrarian production as an element that has been deemed as a compatible function of rural spaces of Bosnia and Herzegovina.…”

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Regional Developmental Problems of the Rural Settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rahman¹,

Nurkovie²,

Nusret³

et al. 2013

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The paper considers developmental problems of the rural settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which are results of long-term disparity in the regional development in the period 1991-2012. In this paper it is considered the recent migration from rural to urban areas and the depopulation of the rural areas. The result of these trends reflects the development of the new infrastructure and tertiary activities. In these investigations, statistical data processed and geovisualised in GIS were used. The obtained data indicate extremely unequable regional arrangement of the population in the rural areas and socio-economic development.Keywords: Bosnia and Herzegovina, rural settlements, age structure, migration, war, depopulation, transition countries Methods of Work and Data SourcesMethodological approach is imperatively adjusted to the purpose of this paper, developmental problems of the rural settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which have a strong influence on local and rural development.The research has been considered through local and rural development of the areas in Bosnia and Herzegovina.In estimation of economic contribution of rural activities to economy, quantitative methods in the range from stochastic to deterministic are almost exclusively used. Of stochastic methods, the most commonly used methods are econometric methods based on the analysis of time series, cross-sectional and panel data.Deterministic methods include models of gravitation (which can partially be stochastic models as well), input-output (IO) analysis and social accounting matrix (SAM), satellite account of tertiary activities and computable general equilibrium (CGE) model (Hara, 2008).With regard to contents and inclusion into a system on social accounting, evaluation of direct contribution of activities to local and rural development of economy in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a good basis for defining and application of the models that enable consideration of the total contribution of rural activities. Namely, with a direct contribution of tertiary activities perceiving the influence of tertiary activities on local and rural development is more complete, as well as extension of the analysis through considering the links between the sectors that directly sell the services and products of rural activities and those activities servicing these sectors

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Embodied rural geographies: Developing research agendas

Cited by 91 publications

References 40 publications

An Exploration of the Co-production of Performance Running Bodies and Natures Within “Running Taskscapes”

An Exploration of the Co-production of Performance Running Bodies and Natures Within “Running Taskscapes”

Playing in the woods: youth, leisure and the performance of gender relations in rural Newfoundland

Regional Developmental Problems of the Rural Settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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