Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside

Bosworth, Gary; Whalley, Jason; Fuzi, Anita; Merrell, Ian; Chapman, Polly; Russell, Emma

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2023.01.003

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“…Furthermore, this special issue contributes to the contemporary debate on hybrid solutions for work and everyday life, which could create new possibilities for rural areas and small towns to increase their attractiveness (e.g., Bosworth et al, 2023). Access to work is a crucial factor for moving to smaller towns and rural areas, even though research shows that non-economic factors like social life, the environment, and housing are more determinative than economic factors when evaluating migrants' satisfaction with migration outcomes (Lundholm & Malmberg, 2006).…”

Section: Urban/ruralmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.

Braunerhielm,

Grip,

Ljungberg

et al. 2024

Cult. Unbound

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This special issue of Culture Unbound directs attention beyond cities, to small towns and rural communities, and the practices taking place there. Referring to a previous special issue on ‘Rural Media Spaces’ from 2010, this special issue revisits the notion of ‘the rural’ versus ‘the urban’ through the concept of placemaking and geomedia. In a mediatized society, placemaking practices cannot be understood without simultaneously understanding different media practices and how they affect place. A geomedia perspective on placemaking beyond cities, therefore, brings new perspectives on media representations of small towns and rural communities, related to the materialization of space and how we engage with and perceive the world. Geomedia also includes a focus on layers of digitalization and new media in the relations between place and practice. The issue brings together researchers from a wide range of subjects, and the articles in this volume address empirical examples from different rural places and small towns in Sweden and internationally. Taken together, a manifold of issues relating to media and placemaking beyond cities are covered, for example, inclusion/exclusion, representation, resistance, community building, belonging, and identification.

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Section: Urban/ruralmentioning

confidence: 99%

Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.

Braunerhielm,

Grip,

Ljungberg

et al. 2024

Cult. Unbound

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“…Compared with agricultural villages, the rural areas reliant on industry and tourism have transitioned to the multi-function stage, which are most characterized by the attributes of rural consumption and entertainment [43]. Rural physical entities for consumption and entertainment can include rural houses, rural culture, rural traditional techniques and rural pastoral landscapes [44]. Most typically, homestays are frequently found in some villages with better natural endowments.…”

Section: The Function Of the Rccclm In Different Stages Of Rural Deve...mentioning

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Paths and Mechanisms of Rural Transformation Promoted by Rural Collectively Owned Commercial Construction Land Marketization in China

Shen,

Zhou,

Xie

et al. 2024

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Rural collectively owned commercial construction land marketization (RCCCLM), a land policy that is still being piloted despite being allowed by law, has been regarded as an indispensable policy tool that can meet the land demand for rural development. This study aims to analyze the typical modes and key paths of RCCCLM for rural transformation theoretically and practically. We developed an innovative theoretical framework of “Situation-Structure-Implementation-Outcome” to illustrate the relationship between RCCCLM and rural transformation. By tracing the process of the impact of RCCCLM on rural transformation in typical areas, this study fills the gap in existing research that has not yet explored the theoretical mechanisms between RCCCLM and rural transformation. The results show that a combination of such factors as geographical location and rural land use status brings about three major ways of RCCCLM, namely, local marketization, adjustive marketization and consolidation-based marketization, to promote rural transformation. The influencing mechanism of RCCCLM on rural transformation mainly concerns rights granting, rural land use structure reshaping, the transformation of farmers’ livelihood and improvement in rural governance capacity. Rural transformation follows a basic rule and phased characteristics of evolving from single function to multiple functions, and RCCCLM displays a differentiated driving effect on the evolution of rural functions in different stages of rural development. These findings will provide new insights into rural land use and rural transformation in China and other developing countries and help solve the bottlenecks in rural transformation.

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“…In this theoretical context, the reactions from the rural geography show a notable thematic variety around several axes: (1) mainly, the rural farmer and its live conditions and the new agricultural conditions and possibilities. A good example is the perspective of isolation and new technologies of digital curation and the digital identities in an everyday digital agriculture [15], (2) new rural business and labor opportunities for the locals and new comers' populations, (3) facilities and health opportunities for local communities, (4) new spaces for co-working [17] and smart senior towns [14] as an expression of new material spaces in rural smart villages. But, there is no adequate panorama of the co-production of new materialities and new virtualities in the spatial emergence of smart villages.…”

Section: Smart Blueprint and (Rural) Spatial Equitymentioning

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Smart and Novelty Villages as the Quality Place of Virtuality

Paniagua

2023

Sustainability

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From the perspective of the recent orientations of virtual geographies, the idea of smart and novelty villages in the context of renovated material rural worlds is conceptualized. The sum of new virtual and new materiality produces virtual and novelty spaces and places, which acquire a precise territorial dimension in the rural policy and politics of smart villages. Smart villages can not only be framed in global smart contexts, but they can also play a fundamental role in de-global territorial horizons as an instrument of resistance to global processes of rural restructuring. The smart political idea or orientation takes shape in each rural community with a different expression in the form of new local materials. The concept of quality virtuality is developed theoretically along three axes: the encounter between smart, novelty and new materials; the smart in the equitable rural community; and the right to disconnection in remote rural areas.

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Rural co-working: New network spaces and new opportunities for a smart countryside

Cited by 19 publications

References 73 publications

Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.

Introduction to Special Issue: Placemaking Beyond Cities.

Paths and Mechanisms of Rural Transformation Promoted by Rural Collectively Owned Commercial Construction Land Marketization in China

Smart and Novelty Villages as the Quality Place of Virtuality

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