Stuck between ‘the rock’ and a hard place: rural crisis and re-imagining rural Newfoundland feminine subjectivities

Norman, Moss E.; Power, Nicole Gerarda

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2013.855707

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“…No doubt, this view reflects the real struggles facing fisheries workers in their communities. It also reflects an intergenerational shift in thinking toward an urban perspective on what makes a good job, perhaps a response to the dominant discourse that young people must get an education and leave their home towns to be viewed as "successful" (see also Norman and Power 2014). At the same time, place-based affections and connections appear to mediate such views on the importance of fishing, because youth from fisheries communities perceive fishing as being more important than do youth who have never lived in such a community.…”

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"The fishery went away": The impacts of long-term fishery closures on young people's experience and perception of fisheries employment in Newfoundland coastal communities

Power¹,

Norman²,

Dupré³

2014

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ABSTRACT. There is a growing body of research documenting the impacts of fisheries collapses on communities and fisheries workers. Less attention has been paid to the sustainable use of fisheries resources so that future generations have access to these resources, or to the creation of mechanisms that might contribute to the intergenerational continuity of recruitment of fisheries workers and the regeneration of fisheries communities. In this paper we report on young people's experiences and perceptions of fisheries employment in Newfoundland and Labrador to deepen our understanding of the resiliency of small-scale fisheries. We found that these young people's experiences of fisheries employment are extremely limited and their perceptions of the quality of fisheries work is primarily negative while, at the same time, they recognize its importance to the vitality of their communities. We argue that stock collapses and subsequent downsizing and regulatory changes in the industry have disrupted intergenerational continuity in fisheries work and shaped how young people view their communities and options.

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"The fishery went away": The impacts of long-term fishery closures on young people's experience and perception of fisheries employment in Newfoundland coastal communities

Power¹,

Norman²,

Dupré³

2014

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“…Moreover, we would add to Farrugia's analysis that social resources are also acquired through mobilities between diverse rural spaces (e.g., more or less industrialized ruralities, such as the oil industries in northern Alberta and rural Newfoundland fishing communities). The second dimension is also relatively well established in the literature, where places are symbolically coded or discursively constructed as, for example, lively, full of opportunity and progressive, in the case of urban spaces, while rural spaces are often constructed as empty, boring and old fashioned-albeit safe and peaceful (see Farrugia, 2015;Kenway et al, 2006;Norman et al, 2015). The symbolic dimensions have been identified as critical factors in how youth come to understand and experience their rural communities, thus shaping their mobility biographies (Ni Laoire, 2000).…”

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“…For the third dimension, Farrugia (2015) turns to non-representational theories to examine the embodied, sensuous connection between self, place and mobility. Here, research examines how place incites feelings of, for example, comfort and belonging or discomfort and disorientation, and how these affective, more-than-rational factors influence mobility decisions (see Farrugia, Smyth & Harrison, 2015;Norman et al, 2015;Power et al, 2014b). Indeed, when taken together, these three dimensions enable a supple and complex analysis of the mobility biographies of rural youth.…”

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“…T he gendered nature of rural youth migration is well established both in Canada (Corbett, 2007a, b, c;Norman and Power, 2015;Ommer, 2007) and in other places (Kenway et al, 2006;Lowe, 2015;Ni Laoire, 2001, with rural young men being more likely to stay on in their communities, while young women are more likely to leave for education and to pursue different kinds of employment opportunities (Corbett 2007b, Cloke and Little, 1997, Lowe, 2015, Rye, 2006Thissen et al, 2010). In this paper, we tell a somewhat different story of young people's mobilities -one that focuses on how place-specific gender relations enable the employment-related geographical mobilities (ERGMs) of rural young men in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.…”

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Re-Inscribing Gender Relations through Employment-Related Geographical Mobility: The Case of Newfoundland Youth in Resource Extraction

Power

Norman

2019

Can. J. Soc.

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Despite the popular representation of the masculine hero migrant (Ni Laoire, 2001), rural youth scholars have found that young men are more likely to stay on in their communities, while young women tend to be more mobile, leaving for education and better employment opportunities elsewhere (Corbett, 2007b;Lowe, 2015). Taking a spatialized approach (Farrugia, Smyth & Harrison, 2014), we contribute to and extend the rural youth studies scholarship on gender, mobilities and place by considering the case of young Newfoundlanders' geographical mobilities in relation to male-dominated resource extraction industries. We draw on findings from two SSHRC-funded research projects, the Rural Youth and Recovery project, a subcomponent of the Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA) and the Youth, Apprenticeship and Mobility project, a subcomponent of the On the Move Partnershi We argue that the spatial coding of gender relations in rural Newfoundland makes certain kinds of mobilities more intelligible and possible for young men, while constraining women's. In other words, gender relations of rural places are "stretched out" (Farrugia et al., 2014) across space through the mobility practices of young men and women in relation to work in skilled trades and resource extraction industries. These "stretched out" gender relations are reproduced by the organisation of a sector that relies on a mobile workforce free from care and domestic work and familiar with manual work.

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“…While there have been studies that have examined the educational, professional, and mobility aspirations of rural and urban young people living in Atlantic Canada and Ontario using qualitative and quantitative methods (Benjamin, Domine, & Landine, 2001;Cairns, 2013Cairns, , 2014Corbett, 2007Corbett, , 2009Norman & Power, 2015), each of these studies focused on only one research locale. The present study focuses on the aspiration narratives of young people from two distinctive communities in Western Canada.…”

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Unpacking Young People’s Narratives About Their Aspirations: A Bourdieusian Perspective

Haines‐Saah

Hilario

et al. 2016

IJCYFS

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Abstract:Drawing from Bourdieu's theories on habitus, capital, and field, this article explores the complex relationship between social context and youth's aspirations and perceptions of the future. Based on findings from interviews we conducted with young people in two distinct communities in British Columbia, Canada, we undertook a comparative analysis of the ways in which class and place influence young people's "imagined futures". Our findings suggest that family plays an instrumental role in shaping youth's aspirations in both locations. Perceptions regarding opportunity and mobility varied greatly between the communities, and appeared to be influenced by racialized and gendered inequalities. A few youth had aspirations that resided outside of the narrative parameters mapped out by their peers. We explore the implications of these perspectives for community-level strategies aiming to improve young people's future trajectories, which could have positive impacts on their current and future health and wellbeing. While Bourdieu's theories do not explicitly consider adolescent-specific capital, we found them to be helpful in making sense of youth's narratives about their futures. Keywords 424Young people's aspirations for educational and career goals have been shown to be influenced by structural inequalities (Allen & Hollingworth, 2013;Archer & Yamashita, 2003). It is well documented that class structures associated with poverty and social disadvantage can constrain aspirations and place youth at risk for poor health and social outcomes, and can diminish educational and occupational successes relative to more advantaged peers (Ceballo, 2004;Maurizi, Ceballo, Epstein-Ngo, & Cortina, 2013;Stewart, Stewart, & Simons, 2007;Walpole, 2003;Wilson, 2010;Yoshikawa, Aber, & Beardslee, 2012). While such structural limitations are not linked to class or income status alone (Gonzales, 2011;Mello & Swanson, 2007;Noguera, 2003), researchers have drawn on a variety of approaches to theorize the influence of context -structural, social, cultural, or a combination thereof -on youth's life trajectories.Following Bourdieu and Passeron's (1977) work examining the education system in France, analyses of cultural capital have figured prominently within social education research (Dumais, 2002;Grenfell & James, 1998). Bourdieu's theorization of cultural capital has been a staple for understanding the cultural influences on the "achievement gap" present in educational outcomes (Lareau & Weininger, 2003). Educational theorists have long used Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social capital to explain how families with class privilege confer advantages beyond economic benefits upon their children, facilitating success in school. Additionally, this theory has been used to illuminate how both the evaluation standards and social values of institutional fields of education may disadvantage students from working-class backgrounds (Lamont, Schmalzbauer, Waller, & Weber, 1996;Lareau, 1989).In terms of work and employment, Charlesworth's A Pheno...

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Stuck between ‘the rock’ and a hard place: rural crisis and re-imagining rural Newfoundland feminine subjectivities

Cited by 27 publications

References 41 publications

"The fishery went away": The impacts of long-term fishery closures on young people's experience and perception of fisheries employment in Newfoundland coastal communities

"The fishery went away": The impacts of long-term fishery closures on young people's experience and perception of fisheries employment in Newfoundland coastal communities

Re-Inscribing Gender Relations through Employment-Related Geographical Mobility: The Case of Newfoundland Youth in Resource Extraction

Unpacking Young People’s Narratives About Their Aspirations: A Bourdieusian Perspective

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