Nostalgia and precarious placemaking in southern poultry worlds: Immigration, race, and community building in rural Northern Alabama

Walter, Brian Murray

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2019.12.004

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“…We see this same kind of alternative epistemology in Latinx home gardens in the US South where weed killing, homogeneity, and uniformity are rejected in favor of colorful heterogeneous lawns interspersed with statues and assemblages of cultural materialities (69). Garden plantings of corn, avocado, prickly pear, and mango constitute placemaking for many Latinx families in North Alabama who subtly reject the nostalgia for clean orderly lawns preferred by their white neighbors.…”

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Contemporary Populism and the Environment

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Wolford

Borras³

2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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This review engages with literature on authoritarian populism, focusing specifically on its relationship to the environment. We analyze hybrid combinations of authoritarianism and populism to explore three themes from the literature: environmental governance, social and political representations of nature, and resistance. In the environmental governance section, we analyze how governments have increasingly resorted to populist politics to expand extractivism; certain commodities with national security implications have become key commodities to be protected; and borders, frontiers, and zones of inclusion/exclusion have become flash points. In the social and political representations of nature section, we analyze settler colonialism and sacrifice zones as organizing principles for relations with the environment. In our final section on resistance, we review literature highlighting pushback to authoritarian populism from peasant, indigenous, and worker movements. Variants of populism and authoritarianism are likely to persist amid increasing competition over resources as components of responses to environmental and climate crisis. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 47 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Representationsmentioning

confidence: 83%

Contemporary Populism and the Environment

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Wolford

Borras³

2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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“…While the 'cleansing' of public space has been studied in urban areas undergoing gentrification (e.g. Smith, 1996), less attention to this thinking and discourse has been applied to rural areas (Walter, 2019). This literature highlights that talk about 'preservation' and 'revitalisation' and 'blighted areas' promotes versions of the past that justify present politics, which tend to be racial and exclusionary.…”

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“…These points are especially important from a quality of life perspective as talk about 'rural development' is often couched in well-being language -e.g., to quote the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), where they talk repeatedly about development through a lens that focuses on affording activities that 'boost rural economies and improve well-being for the rural dwellings' (OECD, 2018). This is problematic given how terms like 'development' and 'investment' (to counter 'blight') are frequently employed as colour-blind terms that in actuality mask racialised politics that work to exclude and thus reduce the quality of life of some groups (Carolan, 2020b;Walter, 2019). This came out especially clearly in interviews when the subject turned to development in Rural Community, particularly those spaces in need of 'revitalisation'.…”

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Well-being for whom and at whose expense

Carolan¹

2023

Rural Quality of Life

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This chapter is animated by a number of empirical tensions dealing with rural well-being. These tensions have been especially well documented in the US, the focus of this chapter. Yet I know they exist, and therefore complicate rural policy, in other countries (e.g. Almås & Fuglestad, 2020;Gallent & Gkartzios, 2019). For example, the 2020 World Happiness Report tells of how rural citizens in Northern and Western Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand are on average more satisfied with their life compared to their urban counterparts (Burger et al., 2020). Relatedly, note the findings of the US-focused Life in Rural America survey (NPR/ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/ Harvard University, 2018). The report explains that rural Americans are 'largely optimistic about the future, as most say the number of good jobs in their local community will either stay the same or increase in the next five years'; a majority also reported being 'better off financially compared to their parents at the same age, and a majority think their children will be better off financially compared to themselves' (p. 1).And yet, from a follow-up survey conducted a few months later -Life in Rural America Part II -nearly half of rural Americans report not being able to afford an unexpected $1,000 expense, while four in ten said their families have experienced problems paying for medical bills, housing or food in the past few years (NPR/ Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/ Harvard University, 2019, p. 1). From 1999 to 2016, the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 per cent. Suicide rates among individuals in rural counties are now roughly 25 per cent higher than those in major metropolitan areas (Carroll, 2019). Much of the authoritarian populism witnessed in the US and elsewhere -Trumpism (US), Brexit (UK), the rise of Bolsonaro (Brazil) -has been attributed to deeply felt rural anxieties (e.g., Carolan, 2020aCarolan, , 2020bScoones et al., 2018).

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“…The colorblind concept is especially useful for understanding how difference, and difference avoidance, are often masked in community development discourse, such as through wellbeing (e.g., economic) and SWB language. Coded language about planning and policy needing to be “compatible” with the “historic identity” of a neighborhood to preserve its “heritage” are regularly used in community development documents and discourse to reference race and ethnicity without doing so explicitly (Walter 2021). The discourse of “job creation,” too, is often colorblind to the degree that it fails to ask questions related to “Jobs for whom ?” and “Jobs at whose expense?” We know, for example, that certain populations have benefited more from rural digital transitions, namely, those that are white, middle‐class, and educated (Carolan 2020b).…”

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Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference^☆

Carolan

2022

Rural Sociology

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This paper draws from a dataset focusing on two rural communities in Colorado (USA). Data collection occurred over two periods: late‐2019 and again during COVID‐19 lockdowns in mid‐2020. The communities differed demographically: one had a growing minoritized population, especially among its youth; the other was overwhelmingly white. The paper troubles the concept of subjective wellbeing (SWB) as it asks about the productive potentials of discomfort, with assistance from such concepts as colorblind ideology, motivated reasoning, and network homophily. While important to think about so‐called positive emotional states in the context of community development, we must also ask questions like, “SWB for who and at whose expense?” How respondents thought about individual‐ and community‐level SWB had much to do with the social networks they were in. I also explore why the community that fared pandemic‐related disruptions, from a SWB standpoint, better than the other performed worse during this same period from an economic (material) standpoint. Sociological factors explain these dynamics, which are leveraged to enhance our understanding of how to conceptualize community development in productive ways. In sum, I argue that certain expressions of discomfort have value and are therefore necessary for creating resilient, flourishing, and, ultimately, just communities.

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Nostalgia and precarious placemaking in southern poultry worlds: Immigration, race, and community building in rural Northern Alabama

Cited by 8 publications

References 37 publications

Contemporary Populism and the Environment

Contemporary Populism and the Environment

Well-being for whom and at whose expense

Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference^☆

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Nostalgia and precarious placemaking in southern poultry worlds: Immigration, race, and community building in rural Northern Alabama

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Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference☆

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Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference^☆