Young People’s Visions for Life in the Countryside in Latin America

Vega-Leinert, Anne Cristina de la; Kieslinger, Julia; Jiménez-Moreno, Marcela; Steinhäuser, Cornelia

doi:10.1080/00167428.2021.1925897

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“…However, studies focusing on this tension are often less clear about how young people belong in rural communities. Other studies addressing rural youth belonging have emphasised young people's imagined futures and their tension with staying in a local rural area (Ronnlund, 2019), the negotiation of belonging between traditional residents and new migrants to the community in public spaces such as schools (Butler, 2019), youth constructions of rural places as ‘uncool’ (Pedersen & Gram, 2017), youth narratives of rurality that are shaped by discourses of urbanism (Sorensen & Pless, 2017), and desires to merge aspects of living in both rural and urban places (De La Vega‐Leinert et al, 2021). In response to this literature we seek to understand rural young people's experiences of belonging in a way that is defined less by major life‐course events (such as relocating to pursue postsecondary education) and comparisons between rural and urban areas, and focuses more on everyday lived experience.…”

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Routinized performances of belonging: Everyday practices and relationships in rural and regional areas during the pandemic

Cook

Cuervo

2022

Population Space and Place

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The concentration of COVID-19 cases and restrictions in metropolitan areas in 2020 resulted in a re-emergence of the concept of the 'rural idyll' in Australia, with rural and regional areas coming to be associated with a safe and uninterrupted way of life. Implicit in this notion is the assumption that those living in rural and regional areas found their routines and experiences of belonging uninterrupted. We critique this narrative by drawing on qualitative longitudinal data collected from 2006 to 2020, which allows us to examine our participants' experiences of belonging in rural and regional areas both before and during the pandemic. We find that although our participants' experiences of belonging were largely undisturbed by the pandemic, this was not because their lives were not affected more broadly, but because their sense of belonging was established through everyday routines and practices that were maintained during the pandemic.

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