Showing papers in "Journal of Rural Studies in 2023"

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the question of how socially innovative governance is fostered or impeded within marginalised rural regions, where they compared the marginalized rural regions of Mühlviertel in Austria, Baixo Alentejo in Portugal, and Phthiotis in Greece.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored how rurality might affect the social innovation process in a rural context and found that specific characteristics of rural places can act as stimuli of social innovation.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explore how rural social enterprises engage in a plurality of socioeconomic relations with different dimensions of their "place" when contributing to the development of their localities, which indicates their "placial embeddedness".

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore the figure of the key player in rural social innovation research and expose the patterns of rural SI processes with empirical cases of two small communities in Germany that jointly created rural infrastructure systems, thus seeking emancipation from remote political and economic control and marginalization.

TL;DR: In this paper , the emergence and development of social innovation in rural territories in the opposing socioeconomic settings of Portugal and India is analyzed, and the authors provide empirical evidence from contexts and analytical frameworks that have been neglected by most innovation scholars.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue that strategies and innovations grounded on the specific groups' and communities' own knowledge and rhythm within complex rural contexts need to be recognized as social innovation.

TL;DR: In this article , the impact of off-farm and part-time employment on the occurrence and area of farmers' land transfer-in was investigated and the mediating effect was shown.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigate the emergence of trajectories that organize networks and articulate production, supply and purchase of superior biological quality food in the Florianopólis Metropolitan Area and beyond, Southern Brazil which they identify as an agrifood citizenship network.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored perceptions of agrivoltaics by different stakeholder types in three countries (Germany, Belgium, and Denmark) and different system designs (vertical, horizontal, and as replacement of cover installations).

TL;DR: In this paper , the role of social work in rural social innovation processes is discussed, with the focus on two case examples from Uganda and Rwanda, where a community-based concept of household clusters to promote rural development called akabondo is presented.

TL;DR: The Bishan Project as discussed by the authors is an art-oriented community revitalization initiative in rural Anhui Province, China, which is run by the renowned art curator Ou Ning and his colleagues.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors argue for a double move in rural studies' engagement with race and rural diversity, which involves, firstly, a critical move towards interrogating whiteness as a force of power and inequality in rural places; and secondly a move away from whiteness in order to centre Indigenous, Black and Brown rural lifeworlds in their own terms.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine the case of Japan's Setouchi Triennale, an international art festival which aims at revitalising twelve small islands by promoting socially engaged art and festival tourism.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the effect of poverty alleviation through relocation on poor households from the perspectives of income and multidimensional poverty, based on panel data of 1009 poor households in eight provinces in China.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the role of China's top-down model captured by cities' administrative level in the hukou transfer intention of rural migrants with settlement intention.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated if unconditional Cash Transfers can be effective in protecting children against unexpected negative life events and found that the Lesotho Child Grant Programme (CGP) reduced the incidence and intensity of multidimensional deprivation for children living in labour-constrained female-headed households (FHH) that experienced negative economic or demographic shocks.

TL;DR: Based on an analysis of a pilot case for China's rural commercial construction land (RCCCL) reform policy at the edge of Chengdu City, the authors demonstrate how state-led rural land reform paves the way for stealthy land dispossession and rural gentrification.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that efforts should be directed toward addressing the sector's challenges, and the formalisation process ought to be viewed as an ongoing process, and they outline developmental initiatives that industry players can apply to support the sector challenges as part of a formalisation strategy.

TL;DR: In this paper , an explanatory framework for farmland transfer plans was constructed using a nested structure consisting of factors at three levels, macrocontext, meso-region, and microindividual, and an empirical study based on a field survey of two villages with specialized fruit and vegetable cultivation in China.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examine gendered dimensions of mining, from state officials' claims that mining is "men's work", to on-site gendered divisions of labor, and show how gendered extractive practices combine with the material environment (pits, dust, tunnels, etc.) to expose men and women to different health issues.

TL;DR: In this article , a qualitative research study adopted a social constructionist epistemology to explore the main risk and protective factors for the mental health of farmers in Western Australia and found that communication and connection with others and taking time away from farming were important protective factors.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyse the situation of these regions in the South Moravian Region in more detail to specify individual threats and possible approaches to rural development, and determine whether these regions are significantly differentiated internally, allowing the neediest areas to be focused on for growth.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors use assemblage concepts to highlight the role of non-human actants in agricultural knowledge and innovation processes, highlighting the co-constructed nature of farm knowledge and associated transition processes.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide empirical evidence on the 20 years of the development of a remote rural area (Charcoal Land) that sparked the revival of traditional charcoal burning in Slovenia, using a combination of document reviews, key informant interviews, semi-structured interviews, and participatory observations.

TL;DR: This article analyzed how rural outmigration affects gendered knowledge and decision-making, labour organization and availability, investments in agricultural production systems, and future aspirations for household members who remain on the farm.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors apply an intersectional values-based and contextual analysis to describe how past and present processes of agrarian change interact across different farmer identities to influence adaptive pathways.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors highlight that longer leases are associated with large farms and those with a high percentage of land rented in, but revised policies are required to encourage more landowners to rent out their land.