Struggles around public healthcare restructuring and rural futures

Enlund, Desirée

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2021.1951680

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“…While much has been written about how rural communities have responded to, and themselves communicated meaning around, situations involving the impending threats of closures, cutbacks and diminishing and ageing populations (e.g. Forsberg 2010;Cras 2017;, 2023Enlund 2020), less attention has been directed towards how the situation plays out in news media, where content is beyond the control of local villagers and disseminated across larger audiences (but see Skinner et al 2013Skinner et al , 2016. Previous studies suggest that representations in the media are of great significance for how rural identities and futures are perceived.…”

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“…It has been argued that resilience thinking tends to obscure structural inequalities (Harrison 2013;Bracke 2016), and the concept has been criticised for encouraging vulnerable rural communities to take personal responsibility, thereby (in a sense) accepting cutbacks and the withdrawal of welfare services (cf. Joseph 2013;Caldwell 2015;Enlund 2020). We have suggested that the media constructions of resilience as an ideal imply a 'cruel optimism' in the way in which they celebrate resilience while papering over the spatial precarity and responsibilisation connected to it.…”

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“…But resilience thinking has been criticised for downplaying the way in which austerity politics has increasingly transferred responsibility for welfare services to local rural initiatives (cf. Enlund 2020). And, while volunteer initiatives are often described as increasingly important in regional policy (Rönnblom 2014;Husu & Kumpulainen 2019), very little interest has been directed towards how such initiatives are also reflected in, and shaped by, more far-reaching public representations of this type of local response to change (Skinner et al 2016).…”

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“County residents take the fight”

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Ljuslinder

2024

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Celebrations of local volunteering as a way to cope with cutbacks are frequent. Not least are such celebrations apparent within the media, where descriptions of local initiatives are sometimes seen as the solutions to downward spiralling trends in Swedish rural areas. The paper explores the media production of meaning around rural resilience as they covered initiatives where rural populations mobilised to ‘save’ threatened local service for their supposed public interest. Using the concepts of ‘patchy resilience’ and ‘cruel optimism’, the paper points at how the representations attach rural areas and identities to a stereotypical rural imagery while also representing a resilience ideal that risks glorifying neoliberal responsibilisation.

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Ljuslinder

2024

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Translating Space: The Rise and Fall of Central Place Theory and Planning-Geography in Sweden

Wikman

Mohall

2022

Socio-Spatial Theory in Nordic Geography

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This chapter explores the emergence and eventual decline of a distinctive kind of planning-oriented human geography in post-war Sweden and the closely related adaptation of Walter Christaller’s central place theory by geographers such as Torsten Hägerstrand and Sven Godlund. The rapidly expanding Swedish welfare state gave rise to a demand for skills and expertise of a kind many geographers were eager to provide, and Christaller’s abstract framework allowed them to position themselves as producers of socially useful knowledge. Eventually, however, several voices raised concerns about how the focus on planning and the dominance of reductive theories such as central place theory constrained the academic development of the discipline. The end of the expansive phase of the welfare state also decreased the demand for the expertise geographers had provided. In essence, the popularity of central place theory was tethered to a particular historical moment, and it only allowed for rather narrow analyses of socio-spatial relations. Nonetheless, the theory played a key role in the transformation of Swedish human geography into a modern social science, insofar as the comparatively novel understanding of space it provided contributed to the development of more complex and philosophical theories and approaches to geography.

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The Promise of Belonging: Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North

Goicolea

Gotfredsen

Jönsson

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Int. Migration & Integration

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This article analyses how youth subject positions of the ‘racialized other’ are produced, and how these positions interconnect with the concept of belonging to the rural community. We do this by analysing 15 group discussions with 63 young people living in rural areas in northern Sweden taking a discursive psychology approach, and focusing on how discourses produce certain subject positions of ‘the racialized other’. Drawing on the concepts of the politics of belonging and the ‘stranger’, we argue that discourses on belonging to the (rural) community create boundaries that exclude ‘other’ youth, as well as resistance and contestation. The subject positions that such discourses produce represent racialized youth in stereotypical ways and imply a promise of belonging for certain ‘others’ based on their fulfilment of particular norms. However, such a depoliticized promise of belonging that places the responsibility for becoming integrated on the ‘others’ was also challenged. Firstly, in relation to criticisms of the welfare system, and secondly, in relation to racism as an unwelcome threat in rural communities.

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Struggles around public healthcare restructuring and rural futures

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

“County residents take the fight”

“County residents take the fight”

Translating Space: The Rise and Fall of Central Place Theory and Planning-Geography in Sweden

The Promise of Belonging: Racialized Youth Subject Positions in the Swedish Rural North

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