Enchanting resilience: Relations of care and people–place connections in agriculture

Herman, Agatha

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.10.003

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“…Place belonging is informed by interactions between social and familial connection and attachments to one's physical environment (Raymond et al 2010;Bell et al 2004) and can increase place-related wellbeing (Rollero and de Piccoli 2010). CFP farmers described place belonging in terms of their past and anticipated future experiences and relationship with their farm and the local area, leading to a sense of responsibility for land stewardship (Drescher 2014;Herman 2015). CFP capitalises on this by reinforcing farmers' sense of place through representations of local farming and natural history in which flowers seen locally by their grandparents might be seen by their own descendants because of their CFP work.…”

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confidence: 99%

‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri‐Environmental Schemes

2017

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This article investigates aspects of farmers' wellbeing in the context of their participation in an agro-environmental scheme (AES), the North Yorkshire Cornfield Flowers Project (CFP) in the North East of England. Recent developments in wellbeing studies have informed data collection and analysis. Ethnographic data was gathered via observation, field notes and semi-structured interviews with farmers and non-farmer volunteers. The article discusses how farmers' social activity, identity, status and place belonging are enhanced through participation in CFP, and how this might promote their continued AES work. Recognising the potential for AES participation to enhance farmer's wellbeing may demonstrate added value of AES and strengthen the argument for AES funding once the UK leaves the European Union. There is currently little existing evidence in the literature to support this since with only a few exceptions, wellbeing has been characteristically neglected in rural studies research.

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‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri‐Environmental Schemes

2017

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“…Rather the farmer acts in an external world, but is also acted upon, is in constant relations of modification and reciprocity with her environment. For example Herman () proposes to see farms as complex moral economies, where the social entangles human and nonhuman actants in dynamic and contextual webs of power and responsibility. As a consequence, action is not understood as a one‐way street running from the actor to the acted upon, from mind to matter, but as relational phenomena, i.e., all action is interaction (Anderson and Harrison , p. 7; Dépelteau , p. 18).…”

Section: Reconceptualising the Farmer And The Farmmentioning

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Farming from a Process‐Relational Perspective: Making Openings for Change Visible

Darnhofer

2020

Sociologia Ruralis

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The theoretical debates in sociology have highlighted the strengths, but also the limitations of perspectives building on, anthropocentrism, essentialism, or structural determinism. One school of thought that strives to overcome such limitations is relational sociology. The aim of this article is to explore how a process-relational perspective can offer a new conceptual framework for farm-level studies in rural sociology. It is an invitation to view the world as a tissue of interactions, of dynamic and often unpredictable processes. By injecting a dose of new materialism and thereby extending agency to nonhumans, the liveliness of nature and technology is also taken into account. Yet, reconceptualising farming in relational terms is not just a theoretical but also a political project: it spurs different imaginations, making other worlds thinkable. This would enable to show everpresent openings for more socially just and environmentally friendly farming practices. Keywordsfarmer decision-making, post-humanism, new materialism, relational sociology Darnhofer

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“…Indeed, most farm incubators teach sustainable techniques as well as conservation-minded decision-making strategies for their new farmer participants (Melone, 2006). Beyond the direct ecological impact of these adopted practices, programs that connect people to place have the power to develop an ecological conscience in the next generation of farmers and consumers (Herman, 2015). Immersion in agroecological practices at the beginning of farmers' careers could result in the normalization of these practices as a standard over time, increasing the ecological integrity of place-based food systems.…”

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Connecting New Farmers to Place, Agroecology, and Community through a Bilingual Organic Farm Incubator

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Ostrom

McMoran

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J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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Renewed public interest in the localized dimensions of food and farming systems offers opportunities for citizens to become more engaged in decision making about how their food is produced, distributed, and consumed, and, for all these actions, by whom. This paper explores an initiative designed to reinvigorate the production components of a place-based, regional food system through connecting diverse aspiring entrepreneurial farmers, nonprofit organizations, land grant university faculty, and food consumers around shared values. The characteristics that distinguish valuesbased food systems can be sets of values associated with environmentally sustainable production practices, the qualities of the food, the distribution of the food, and/or relationships with particular farmers and places (Ostrom, DeMaster, Noe, & Schermer, 2017). Based on interviews and participant observation, our participatory research with the Viva Farms bilingual farm incubator program a * 112Volume 9, Supplement 1 / Fall 2019 explores the role of place, social, and environmental values, and social learning in launching an incoming generation of women, immigrant, and lowincome farmers. These themes have not been previously explored in the literature in relation to the success of new entry farmer initiatives. As of 2016, six years into the program, our findings show that 77 percent of past program participants were still farming in the same region, using agroecological farming practices and employing place-based marketing strategies.

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Enchanting resilience: Relations of care and people–place connections in agriculture

Cited by 55 publications

References 85 publications

‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri‐Environmental Schemes

‘Farming on the Edge’: Wellbeing and Participation in Agri‐Environmental Schemes

Farming from a Process‐Relational Perspective: Making Openings for Change Visible

Connecting New Farmers to Place, Agroecology, and Community through a Bilingual Organic Farm Incubator

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