Role Models and Farm Development Options: A Comparison of Seven Swiss Farm Families

Rossier, Ruth

doi:10.3138/jcfs.36.3.399

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“…Due to senses of duty, these men might stay behind and keep their family farms going while others—sisters and younger brothers—leave, in search of higher education and non farming opportunities. Even the language of “staying behind” implies for some of these men a sense of failure and exclusion, while those getting away talk of having “escaped” (Rossier :409).…”

Section: Lived Experiences Of Injustice Among Rural Coloradoansmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rural Problem: Justice in the Countryside

Carolan

2019

Rural Sociology

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This paper makes the case that justice scholarship cannot adequately account for the rural grievances that helped launch Trump to the presidency. This relative blind spot in the literature offers an opportunity for rural sociologists and rural studies scholars more generally to elevate their relevance in the academy and beyond. From late‐2012 to late‐2017, I traversed the state of Colorado interviewing and participating alongside non metro residents from its 24 “rural” and 23 “frontier” counties—the latter designation refers to those counties with a population density of six or fewer persons per square mile (the state has 64 counties in total). The argument is informed by 129 face‐to‐face interviews with residents from across these 47 counties. An additional 144 participant observation‐related conversations help further inform the argument. After explaining why rural grievances driving much of today's populism remains a problem for justice scholarship, I document injustices experienced among those interviewed, categorizing them along the three axes of distribution, recognition, and representation. I then offer tentative suggestions for building recognition and empathy between metro and non metro Coloradans. The paper concludes discussing its limitations and the next steps for future scholarship.

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Section: Lived Experiences Of Injustice Among Rural Coloradoansmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Rural Problem: Justice in the Countryside

Carolan

2019

Rural Sociology

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“…Aufgrund der unsicheren Zukunftsperspektiven landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe und des zunehmenden Anspruchs auf freie Berufswahl ist es heute nicht mehr selbstverständlich, dass Bauernkinder den Hof ihrer Eltern übernehmen (Goldberg 2003;Rossier 2005). Dies hat zu einer Veränderung der Machtbalance zugunsten der jüngeren Generation geführt.…”

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Intergenerationenbeziehungen im bäuerlichen Milieu zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

2021

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ZusammenfassungTrotz des Strukturwandels in der Landwirtschaft hat sich die bäuerliche Lebensform der Mehrgenerationenfamilie in Österreich weitgehend erhalten. Allerdings stellt sich die Frage, wie sich diese Lebensform zu den tiefgreifenden Individualisierungstendenzen, die moderne Gesellschaften durchziehen, verhält. Anhand von 30 Interviews und einer österreichweiten Umfrage unter 269 Betriebsleiterinnen und -leitern untersucht der vorliegende Artikel, wie die Generationenbeziehungen von Alt und Jung wahrgenommen werden. Dazu greift der Beitrag auf soziologische Konzepte der Generationensolidarität, des Generationenkonflikts und der Ambivalenzen in den Generationenbeziehungen sowie auf die historische Familienforschung zurück. Die Analyse, die auch die Geschlechterverhältnisse mit einbezieht, zeigt eine Kontinuität der Familiensolidarität, zugleich aber einen erheblichen Wandel der Solidaritäts- und Konfliktmuster. Als charakteristisch für das bäuerliche Milieu zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts erweisen sich der Wandel von der verpflichtenden zur freiwilligen Generationensolidarität, von traditionellen Abhängigkeitsverhältnissen zu einer autonomeren Lebensführung sowie mehr Privatsphäre und vom patriarchalen Gehorsam zur egalitären Familienkommunikation.

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“…Even the language of “staying behind” implies for some of these men a sense of failure and exclusion. (Elsewhere, staying behind is described in even starker terms: as not having “escaped” [Rossier :409].) While cautious not to draw any distinct lines of causation between high rates of suicide in young men and rural agricultural change, Laoire notes that agriculture is the foundation upon which male farmers have traditionally based their identities.…”

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Justice across Real and Imagined Food Worlds: Rural Corn Growers, Urban Agriculture Activists, and the Political Ontologies They Live By

Carolan

2018

Rural Sociology

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The article examines two seemingly disparate case studies, one involving conventional corn producers and agriculture professionals located in North Dakota, the other focusing on participants in a diverse urban agriculture cooperative in an anonymized U.S. city. Drawing on qualitative interviews and data‐presenting devices known as “word clouds,” the article explores how, and to a lesser extent why, understandings of the terms “social justice” and “autonomy” varied between these spaces. While these imagined political ontologies differed greatly, the article describes each case as grounded in a shared neoliberal (“real”) world that negatively impacts both populations, a realization that could provide a source of recognition and reconciliation between groups. The article concludes by asking why those interviewed in the rural space failed to understand their marginalization to be an artifact of the neoliberal highly individualistic worldview that their articulated imaginaries appear to support, while also exploring how the divergent political ontologies between the groups can be brought into better conversation with each other.

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Role Models and Farm Development Options: A Comparison of Seven Swiss Farm Families

Cited by 25 publications

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The Rural Problem: Justice in the Countryside

The Rural Problem: Justice in the Countryside

Intergenerationenbeziehungen im bäuerlichen Milieu zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts

Justice across Real and Imagined Food Worlds: Rural Corn Growers, Urban Agriculture Activists, and the Political Ontologies They Live By

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