Global Villages and Rural Cosmopolitanism: Exploring Global Ruralities

Aguayo, Beatriz Eugenia Cid

doi:10.1080/14747730802500281

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“…Similar examples from elsewhere in Africa, Asia and Latin America are documented in the literature (e.g., Forstner ; Pudianti et al ; Hieu and Rasovska ), with communities functioning as nodes in a transnational market for ‘ethnic’ art, crafts and fashions, whilst ‘maintaining and re‐creating a supposed “traditional identity” strongly linked to local places’ (Aguayo , p. 546). Yet, even as traditional local identity is foregrounded, the localities concerned are transformed by the connection into translocal networks and the reorganisation of production systems, including tendencies towards mechanisation and industrialisation to meet demand and remain competitive (Kimura ; Gough and Rigg ).…”

Section: Artisan Crafts Culture Economies and Rural Communitiessupporting

confidence: 54%

“…Elsewhere, in Africa, Asia, Latin America and parts of Eastern Europe, artisan craft production has persisted as a mainstream part of rural economies, including in specialist 'craft villages', only more recently encountering pressures to restructure, modernise and engage new markets (Rogerson 1986;Eyferth 2003Eyferth , 2009Kimura 2011;Gough and Rigg 2012;Mahanty and Dang 2015;Chu 2016;Pudianti et al 2016). As in Europe, such dynamics may form part of neo-endogenous rural development strategies based on the commodification of local cultural resources as 'authentic' ethnic artefacts for export to niche markets (Aguayo 2008;Forstner 2013) or to attract tourism (Hieu and Rasovska 2017), but they can also involve processes of industrialisation and deterritorialisation as production is reoriented towards mass manufacture of low-cost commodities for export (Kimura 2011;Gough and Rigg 2012;Chu 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Recovering Tradition in Globalising Rural China: Handicraft Birdcages in Da’ou village

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This article explores a historic rural craft tradition as the focus of economic development through the valorisation of the local cultural heritage, or culture economy. The case‐study traces the revival of bamboo birdcage making in Da’ou village in Shandong Province, where the craft knowledge of making birdcages once prized by the Chinese imperial court has been passed on through generations and protected from outsiders. Since economic reforms in the 1980s, the birdcage craft has again become the major activity in Da’ou village, responding to new urban market demands, and bringing prosperity. Yet, through a conceptualisation of cultural heritage as a ‘prosaic third space’, the article reveals the dynamics and tensions involved in the incorporation of the birdcage tradition in local economic development strategies and the promotion of e‐commerce and tourism, and the processes of abstraction initiated. As such, it raises questions about the relationship between craft, knowledge and place that resonate beyond China. The research is based on semi‐structured interviews conducted in 2016 with respondents including local leaders, craftspeople, suppliers, and sellers.

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Section: Artisan Crafts Culture Economies and Rural Communitiessupporting

confidence: 54%

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Recovering Tradition in Globalising Rural China: Handicraft Birdcages in Da’ou village

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“…Global shifts in economic and cultural foundations of rural areas, such as the decline in agriculture, development of service economy, tourism, development of communication and transportation networks, all lead to significant changes in the traditional social way of life in rural areas [Rye, 2011]. Globalization blurs the line between the city and the countryside even more, making it mobile and ambiguous [Hogan, 2004], [Lynch, 2004], [Cid Aguayo, 2008]. Researchers note that the urban lifestyle becomes normative and rurality turns into 'mental categories, located in people's minds, rather than … outward reality' [Rye, 2011: 173].…”

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‘It is hard for me to live in the city’: local identities and place attachment among young rural Russians

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2019

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The contemporary youth studies are mostly metrocentric. As a result, rural youth often find themselves outside the focus of researchers' attention being marginalized in comparison with urban youth whose experience and lifestyle are perceived as a normative model. In these conditions, rural space is labeled as illegitimate and structurally depriving for youth. This approach is criticized by researchers who work in the tradition of the cultural geographies of childhood and youth and take into account complex, often contradictory but still unique and autonomous experiences of today's young people living in rural areas. The article is based on 59 biographical interviews and describes how Russian rural youth comprehend belonging to places in three rural localities. The authors single out three types of prerequisites defining the place attachment and local identities among young people: rational choice, biographical rootedness, and community rootedness. Acknowledgments. The study was implemented in the framework of the Basic Research Program at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE) in 2015-2016. We thank our colleagues from the Centre for Youth Studies at NRU HSE in St. Petersburg who participated in interviewing the respondents and whose excellent and professional work was indispensable for writing this article.

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“…Cid Aguayo (2008) argues that globalisation processes take place in all aspects of life, even in small settlements which she calls "global villages". As these globalisation processes also appear in rural areas, Woods (2007) calls these regions "globalized countryside" and names ten characteristics.…”

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confidence: 99%