Growing-up in the countryside: children and the rural idyll

Matthews, H. Scott; Taylor, Mark; Sherwood, Kenneth; Tucker, Faith; Limb, Melanie

doi:10.1016/s0743-0167(99)00059-5

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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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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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“…Scholars have found that girls living in rural contexts are accorded less spatial mobility than boys and are bounded closer to home (Dunkley, 2004;Matthews et al, 2000). The car seems to be central to the increased spatial mobilities of young men (Dunkley and Paneill, 2007).…”

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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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“…Matthews et al, 2000). Hart (1976) Children who view their neighborhoods positively are likely to be physically active in those spaces (Hume et al, 2009) and in their communities (Trikha, 2005): and access to community spaces impacts positively on life quality (Beunderman, Hannon and Bradwell, 2007).…”

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The Hantown Street Play Project

Murray

Devecchi

2016

International Journal of Play

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“…For today's adults who grew up in a rural area of Britain, a key difference to their urban counterparts would have been their close association with nature (Matthews, Taylor, Sherwood, Tucker & Limb, 2000). Their contemporaries in China, however, would also have been divided by the household registration system by which only urban residents had the advantage of secure employment and the benefits of the state social-welfare scheme, including free medical care (Yan, 2010).…”

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Evolutionary and socio-cultural influences on feelings and attitudes towards nature: a cross-cultural study

Fox

2016

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research

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Mounting environmental issues have prompted reconsideration of the human-nature relationship. Accordingly, attitudes to nature, as an important dimension of human-nature interactions, have become a research focus. In particular, how feelings and attitudes towards nature are influenced by evolutionary and social-cultural constructions, and whether there is variation between different cultural groups, demands more attention. Using a survey of visitors to two very different National Parks, the New Forest National Park, England and Jiuzhaigou National Scenic Area, China, this paper shows that of nationality and past and present living environment，differences between the two nationalities were significant in respect of both attitudes and feelings. Specifically, it demonstrates that the biophilia thesis, which purports that people have an innate, and hence a genetically inherited, need for affiliation with nature is influenced by their socio-cultural environment, in particular their national culture, but also by their current living place. The study contributes to a better understanding of sustainable tourism in natural areas.

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Growing-up in the countryside: children and the rural idyll

Cited by 244 publications

References 28 publications

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

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

The Hantown Street Play Project

Evolutionary and socio-cultural influences on feelings and attitudes towards nature: a cross-cultural study

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