Keeping the Farm in the Family Name: Patrimonial Narratives and Negotiations among <scp>G</scp>erman‐Heritage Farmers

Lequieu, Amanda McMillan

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“…A small, but nonetheless significant body of work published in the 1970s and 1980s within Rural Sociology focused on white ethnicity as a particular feature of rural society (Panelli et al 2009). This includes Salamon's work on intergenerational land transfers and farming decision-making amongst white farmers differentiated by German and Irish ethnic heritage (Salamon 1980;1982;1985;Salamon and O'Reilly 1979; see also Cross et al 2000;McMillan Lequieu 2015). This work was notable not only for articulating particular questions around the 5 It's worth noting that work that addresses power, race, and agriculture is scarce in the journal in part because the focus of some of this work has been on urban spaces.…”

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Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*

2021

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This article, which also serves as the introduction for this special guestedited issue, examines the history of Rural Sociology's scholarly engagement with rurality, race, and ethnicity. We examine the historical patterns of how Rural Sociology has addressed race and ethnicity, and then present results from a meta-analysis of empirical articles published between 1971 and 2020. Over time, the methodological approaches and scholarly focus of articles on race and ethnicity within Rural Sociology has gradually expanded to include more analyses of power and inequality using constructivist perspectives, and greater numbers of qualitative inquiries into the lived experiences of both white and nonwhite people. The articles featured in the special issue extend from Rural Sociology's growing attention to race and ethnicity. Together, they suggest the ways in which rural spaces are racially coded, how intersections with race and ethnicity exacerbate rural inequality, how the domination of people and the environment are co-constituted, and how practices of racism are embedded within contextually specific ecologies. In drawing attention to these contributions, we suggest future directions for the discipline's engagement with rurality, race, and ethnicity, while simultaneously suggesting the ways in which our own disciplinary racial reckoning remains incomplete.The rural United States has increasingly been at the center of a national political conversation that has explicitly or implicitly been about race and ethnicity (Halloway 2007;Lichter 2012;Pruitt 2019). This conversation was only energized by the 2016 presidential election that drew further attention to the deepening social divides of political ideology and racial anxiety, and the failed neoliberal imaginings of an Obamaera post-racial America (Banks 2018; Metzl 2019; Rodden 2019). The Trump administration only seemed to metastasize long-simmering racial fears, frustration, and anger of a nation that has struggled throughout its history with the contradictions of democracy and equality forged in the crucible of white supremacy, social inequality, and racial injustice (Du Bois 2014;Ellison 1986;Richardson 2020). These tensions assumed *We want to thank David L. Brown, Heather O'Connell, Spencer Wood, Earl Wright II, and Julie Zimmerman for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this work. Any shortcomings and/or inaccuracies are our own. This article was equally co-authored.

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Section: Fifty Years In Review: Rural Sociology's Treatment Of Race Ethnicity and Ruralitymentioning

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Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*

2021

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“…More recent research suggests that this gendered relationship between land and power continues today with the increased competitiveness of farming, consolidation of farmland, and longevity of women's lives as they outlive their co‐owner partners (Druschke and Secchi ; Eells 2008; Pilgeram and Amos ; Petrzelka and Marquart‐Pyatt ). McMillan Lequieu (:57) argues that an increased understanding of how individuals negotiate traditions and contemporary social contexts informs how narratives are “revised, rejected, or created anew over time.” Examining how women negotiate and challenge their assumed position within cultural narratives may help to better understand how to identify opportunities for narrative intervention or change.…”

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“…While institutional attention to the importance of women in agriculture is increasing (see Harden ), agricultural systems remain gendered in ways that privilege the power of men (Sachs ; Trauger et al ; Wells and Eells ). Recent research emphasizes the importance of social relationships in shaping who controls the land, its use, and its future (Brasier et al ; Druschke and Secchi ; McMillan Lequieu ). Previous studies have found that tenants, rather than landowners, make land management decisions and that gender plays a significant role in landowners’ involvement in the management of their land (Petrzelka and Marquart‐Pyatt ; Wells and Eells ).…”

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Placeholders and Changemakers: Women Farmland Owners Navigating Gendered Expectations

Carter

2016

Rural Sociology

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Gendered expectations are central to the continuation of agricultural land tenure systems that concentrate land and power in the control of men. These expectations about how land should be used and by whom are communicated through cultural narratives and maintained through social interactions. Through analysis of qualitative data collected through in‐depth interviews with women farmland owners in Iowa, this article identifies a pivotal person without whom the success of these stories is in jeopardy: the “placeholder.” In this article, I identify how cultural narratives place two gendered expectations on women in the placeholder position: (1) that women landowners maintain farmland through the continuance of its use and preexisting land agreements with tenants or co‐owners, and (2) that women landowners defer their authority as landowners to men. Further, I identify the “changemaker” as an emerging character within cultural narratives—one who refuses to fit the expectations of placeholder and whose behavior may or may not be accepted by the community. Finally, I find that alternative social networks provide enabling environments for changemakers as sites of potential narrative revisions or shifts.

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“…Repeasantisation is the alternative we focus on here, but we recognise that it represents only one of many possible emergent trajectories for the farmers. Our embrace of weak theory also allows us to elide the dichotomy of simple accommodation to capital (McMillan Lequieu ) or resistance to it (Dinerstein ). We see a further parallel between Santos’ () work on emergences and Van der Ploeg's () concept of repeasantisation in that both help us understand which farmers undergo repeasantisation for what reasons.…”

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Repeasantisation in The United States

Nelson

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2016

Sociologia Ruralis

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This article adopts Van der Ploeg's theory of repeasantisation to demonstrate that, even in the largely industrialised agricultural state of Kansas, USA, there are unexpected interstices within neoliberalised agriculture where industrial farmers can exercise and produce autonomy. This study draws from interviews across a range of production strategies including conventional industrial farmers, entrepreneurial, and self‐styled organic farmers. A central claim of this article is that entrepreneurial farmers demonstrate peasant principle practices and therefore a process of repeasantisation is occurring in the USA. Most importantly, this emerging repeasantisation offers a glimpse at the kinds of sustainable agriculture that might be possible in the future. The article concludes that repesantisation strategies may offer hope for societal and ecological repair.

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Keeping the Farm in the Family Name: Patrimonial Narratives and Negotiations among German‐Heritage Farmers

Cited by 24 publications

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Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*

Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*

Placeholders and Changemakers: Women Farmland Owners Navigating Gendered Expectations

Repeasantisation in The United States

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