Reaching rural: Identifying implicit social networks in community development programmes

Meador, John Elliot

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2018.12.006

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“…This theory further states that rural communities build positive ties with external bodies, such as government, industries and NPOs to acquire resources for their betterment [26]. These theories are widely tested in western and developed economies' context while their effectiveness in the context of the emerging and under-developed economies were rarely debated [27,28] and in particular, our study is the first attempt to unleash the importance of governmental projects in community development, in the context of the social capital theory and the theory of community development.…”

Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 99%

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China-Pakistan economic corridor and its impact on rural development and human life sustainability. Observations from rural women

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China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has become a "game-changer" not only for policymakers but also for common citizens of China and Pakistan because of its potential benefits in the economic prosperity and sustainable development in the lives of individuals. Recently, scholars have shown a great interest in researching the eminence of CPEC. Despite prodigious efforts of scholars, the question "how CPEC would influence living standards of rural women and what they perceive?" has been remained unanswered. The present study is the first attempt to unearth the perceptions of rural areas' women towards CPEC. We collected empirical evidence through a structured questionnaire from 302 educated rural women and interviewing 32 uneducated rural women. The following major conclusions are drawn through structural equation modeling via AMOS 21: the rural women significantly directly perceive new opportunities through CPEC; however, they perceive that the CPEC would not directly influence their quality of life and self-enhancement, but through the development of these rural areas. Rural development partially mediates the relationship between CPEC development and perceived opportunities while it fully mediates the relationships between CPEC development and quality of life as well as between CPEC development and self-enhancement. Policymakers need to emphasize on development of rural areas that would improve living standards of poor communities. The government needs to meet the expectations of poor communities and rural women to ensure their sustainable development.

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Section: Plos Onementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Social networks have the potential to be leveraged by rural communities in pursuit of sustainable development efforts. Similarly, rural communities in Pakistan perceive several benefits when they build ties and relationships with the government and industries [27,38].…”

Section: Social Capital Theorymentioning

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China-Pakistan economic corridor and its impact on rural development and human life sustainability. Observations from rural women

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“…Local village organizations gain know-how, instructions, and financial support from regional and state levels, and urban level administrators expect local initiative for structural changes in places. Neoendogenous theories see such rural and urban dichotomy rather as a continuum (Meador, 2019) because they try to combine bottom-up planning with top-down planning, to include local place based internal and external networks (Navarro et al, 2016).…”

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Stable Mobilities and Mobile Stabilities in Rural Estonian Communities

Nugin

Kasemets

2021

European Countryside

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By analyzing the relations of communities and places in sparsely located rural areas, this article argues that rural community is not a stable unity tied to a place, but a phenomenon closely tied to its members’ connections to the interdependent concept of urban/rural, especially in terms of their mobility practices. In this study, the new mobilities paradigm was applied to reveal how everyday relational and routine aspects connected to material, structural, socio-cultural and economic conditioning dynamically intertwine to form a rural community. The analysis is based on three regional case studies in Estonian sparsely populated areas, which are diverse in terms of geographical location, demographic composition, type of settlement, history, and welfare conditions. By using qualitative in-depth interviews with people (N=60) who were involved with the locations, the article analyses everyday mobilities in these communities, especially in terms of interrelatedness to structural, social and material factors. The study has brought out interrelated themes that are connected to the use of rural representations in terms of individual and social self-reflection, the importance of social and material infrastructures, and the dynamics of these borders in communities and shaping community relations.

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“…Fourthly, development policies and practices that can be scaled up through explicit and implicit social networks in the community, and between communities, need to be analyzed. Social capital and networks, and scaling them up to levels beyond the immediate community can result in sustainable development as well as impact knowledge flow and innovation [22,23].…”

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Towards a Scalable Architecture for Smart Villages: The Discovery Phase

Murty

Shankar

2020

Sustainability

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Alleviating poverty, reducing inequality, and achieving economic prosperity and well-beingis a global challenge. The spread and quantum of this daunting challenge calls for a scalable solution.The aim of the ‘Scalable Architecture for Smart Villages’ project is to contribute to an eective solutionwhich addresses scale as well as customization. In order to achieve both in our new framework forsmart villages, we take an endogenous approach. This approach emphasizes learning which will createa catalytic eect for scale. Learning is an essential component in the process, both for the researchersas well as members of the community. With these principles in mind, our approach proceeds in fourphases, namely discovery, planning, resourcing and executing. In this paper we outline the discoveryphase, which will lay the foundation for developing our framework of scalable smart villages.The Discovery Phase is a research process where the community learns about itself and the researcherslearn about the underlying factors that can help uplift and develop a smart village. Using conventionalqualitative and quantitative research methodology, the researchers and the community will generatebaseline data which will help calibrate villages for future development into smart villages.

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Reaching rural: Identifying implicit social networks in community development programmes

Cited by 14 publications

References 35 publications

China-Pakistan economic corridor and its impact on rural development and human life sustainability. Observations from rural women

China-Pakistan economic corridor and its impact on rural development and human life sustainability. Observations from rural women

Stable Mobilities and Mobile Stabilities in Rural Estonian Communities

Towards a Scalable Architecture for Smart Villages: The Discovery Phase

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