Ignored, silenced, caricatured, ridiculed, patronised, and hijacked: What next for a post-populist, post-Gilded-Age countryside?

Kasabov, Edward

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.01.019

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“…A finding that surprised us was that openly political and strategic aspects of rural performativity were very rare in our material—with Section 4.3 accounting for the most notable exceptions. Previous literature has highlighted how rural dwellers “fight back” against stigmatizing narratives (e.g., Kasabov 2020; Lundgren and Liliequist 2020; Winther and Svendsen 2012), and we know from focus group interviews conducted as part of the wider project that local actors in the studied communities are indeed engaged in such struggles. Our interpretation of the near absence of such performances in the groups is that sociability on these online stages is conducted according to the social norms associated with third places (Oldenburg and Brissett 1982) where scheming, strategizing and purposiveness are avoided to generate an atmosphere of “pure” sociability.…”

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confidence: 98%

Performing Rurality in Online Community Groups*

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In this paper, we investigate how rurality is performed in online community groups, attending in particular to outdoor recreation and engagement with local nature. The starting point for our performative approach is that when places are digitally mediated, the technological intermediary is never innocent or neutral. Methodologically, we conducted an online ethnography in 20 rural community groups on Facebook during one full year, collecting every post and associated comment threads relating to outdoor recreation and other forms of engagement with local nature. An iterative, heuristic coding process was employed to engage with and further develop existing performative approaches to the sociological study of rural places. Distinguishing throughout between staged and quotidian performances, our findings detail how the routines, pleasures, and tasks of everyday rural life are performed online. Important distinctions that emerge from this include routines that are given vis-à-vis those that are in-the-making; pleasures based on impression and expression respectively; and tasks relating to carework and sharework. The paper contributes valuable new insights regarding the performance of rurality in the age of the everyday Internet.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%