Showing papers in "Journal of Rural Studies in 2010"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the application of the concepts of communities of practice and networks of practice in the agricultural context and conclude that these theories provide a useful lens through which to view farmers and their practice, highlighting important points for policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative study of selected rural tourism entrepreneurs indicates positive experiences, both economically and in other aspects of their lives, and the Romanian Government should act more incisively to support families establishing guesthouses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the interaction of these policy goals in two regions where a rural development form of multifunctionality is favored. And they used farmers' entrepreneurial skills as an organizing framework, and relate farm development to both farm and farmer-specific factors as well as to their institutional, cultural, social and economic contexts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore emerging policymaking and research into rural creative industries, drawing on a case study from the county of Shropshire in the UK, and highlight the distinctive issues facing the UK rural creative sector, which current policy is ill-equipped to address.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative viewpoint on why people choose to engage in artisanal mining for extended periods in sub-Saharan Africa is presented, drawing upon experiences from Akwatia, Ghana's epicentre of diamond production since the mid-1920s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the migration intentions of pupils in secondary education in two peripheral rural areas: The Westhoek in Flanders, Belgium and the Veenkolonien in the Netherlands.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined evidence of gentrification among in-migration flows and explored both the social transformation of rural areas and the social displacement of rural residents using survey and interview data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an empirical application of the method to four case studies from the south of Italy, focusing on the introduction of a suitable method for the measurement of social capital in the context of rural development policies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that women as entrepreneurs probably adhere to different behavioural patterns from men and have different expectations in the sense that they attach more importance to maintaining equilibrium between the requirements of profession and the demands of family life than they do to achieving economically rational goals through business success.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored why farmers participate in farm-to-school programs and found that farmers sold their products to schools for two primary reasons: to diversify their marketing strategies and to contribute to social benefits through direct action.

TL;DR: In this article, mining companies have positioned themselves as central actors in governing nearby affected communities by espousing notions of "voluntary partnerships for sustainability" between business, government and community.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the effect of rural gentrification in non-metropolitan counties across the United States and develop a methodology for identifying areas with similarly strong evidence of gentrification.

TL;DR: In this paper, the second home landscape is analyzed as a farmscape, wildscape and activityscape, and it is found that life at second homes imitates visions of traditional rural life and the environment is used for traditional consumptive and leisure activities.

TL;DR: The authors used a case study of tourism in the Lake District and Exmoor in the UK to explore the relationship between local food and sustainable rural tourism, using qualitative interviews with tourists, food producers and cafe, pub and restaurant owners.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored different representations by and of the various actors involved vis-a-vis the emergence and polymorphous effects of the gentrification of two regional county municipalities (RCMs) in the province of Quebec: Brome-Missisquoi and Arthabaska.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the social processes that result in this mismatch between state regulations (e.g. transition rules) and the actual experiences of migrant workers building on dual labour market theory and argue that there are two sets of factors underlying the poorer working conditions observed on the farms.

TL;DR: This article examined gender differences in awareness, preparedness and attitudes towards bushfire among landholders in rural landscapes affected by amenity-led in-migration in southeast Australia, and argued that covert and less visible as well as overt gender roles and traditions are important factors in understanding landholders' engagement with bushfire management.

TL;DR: This article explored the social relations between food actors and how "local" and "organic" are expressed by detailing how actors describe qualities of their intra-network relationships, how they understand "local", and how they are connected within the food system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the characteristics of area-based partnerships in rural Poland and found that they are frequently subject to elite domination by local authorities and hence fail to fully engage a range of community and private sector actors.

TL;DR: In this article, the celebrated film The Hunters (Swedish title: Jagarna) within the context of the discourse of Internal Orientalism is explored, by juxtaposing a contemporary Swedish film with historical accounts and contemporary news media, demonstrating how the film reworks and re-produces representations of the rural North (Norrland), constructing stereotypes enmeshed with familiar and global genre-specific stereotypes of a traditional and intransigent population positioned in rural areas and a modern and progressive population in urban areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore Q-methodology that approaches subjectivity in a particular way, instead of beginning with the individual, as it is done in case study approaches, or with socio-demographic categories, as surveys usually do.

TL;DR: This paper explored an often overlooked dimension of multifunctionality by examining different recreational services provided by landowners in Missouri and analyzed the relationship between recreational multifunctional and the practice of agroforestry.

TL;DR: The case of the Association of Forest Communities of Peten (ACOFOP) in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve is discussed, using a framework drawn from research on multipurpose agrarian federations.

TL;DR: The authors explored the emergence of a "new squirearchy" in the English countryside and highlighted the significance of performance and symbolic boundary-marking in the construction and reproduction of social identity.

TL;DR: In this article, an empirical study is presented of agri-environmental governance in Australia where actors debate planning and policy initiatives to reduce diffuse water quality impacts from farms on the adjacent Great Barrier Reef.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the changing structures and institutions of rural local government, and analyse how these can be related to the changing state strategies of those groups which are politically powerful in rural areas, and illustrate how new objects of governance, new state strategies and new hegemonic projects are emerging as a consequence of such restructuring processes.

TL;DR: The authors examined community attitudes and distinctive practices that shape local responses to integrated rural tourism (IRT) development in the lagging rural region of the English/Welsh border area, and found that, while most were in favour of a greater integration of tourism with actors' aspirations, local resources and activities, there was an element of longing for a deux ex machina to put in place real change in the region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the geography of parental choice in a rural locale and show how a group of parents negotiate their way through the process of primary school choice, using ethnographic data collected through interviews and observations with parents and staff from three rural primary schools in England.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the validity of this view in the case of East Cleveland: a rural area with a tradition of mining and industry, occupying the coastal fringe of the Tees Valley city-region.