Introduction: settlements at the edge

Taylor, Andrew

doi:10.4337/9781784711962.00008

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“…While the Symposium focused on western European comparisons, there were also some comparisons with what might be considered more "remote" areas in North America. In recent times, it has been more common to compare the Swedish north with other Arctic regions (including North American Arctic regions) and other "remote" areas in places like Australia (Carson et al 2011;Taylor 2016). These comparisons have re-emphasised some of the features of advance and retreat of settlement that have been highlighted in this introduction.…”

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The Continuing Advance and Retreat of Rural Settlement in the Northern Inland of Sweden

Carson,

Lundmark,

Carson

2020

J North Stud

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In 1960, a range of leading rural geographers started a debate about population development and the “advance and retreat” of human settlement in sparsely populated rural areas, including in the inland north of Sweden. In what came to be known as the “Siljan Symposium,” they identified a number of key themes in relation to migration and human mobility that were thought to determine settlement patterns in the inland north, including: internal migration and urbanisation of populations; the role of simultaneous in- and out-migration in re-shaping settlement patterns; redistribution of rural populations through return migration and international migration; and changing preferences for settlement in different northern “zones” based on the methods for exploiting natural resources for agriculture, forestry, mining and energy production. This paper re-visits the main themes from the 1960 Siljan Symposium and examines Swedish register data to identify how migration patterns and the resulting “advance and retreat” of human settlement have changed across the inland of Västerbotten and Norrbotten. The results suggest that, while general urban-rural and regional-local settlement patterns appear to have been relatively consistent, new forms of migration (including internal, return and international) with different preferences for rural settlement emerging in different localities as a result of both persistent (mining, forestry, energy) and changing (tourism, lifestyle) values of natural resources. We also observe substantial differences in migration and urbanisation rates between Norrbotten and Västerbotten. The paper then discusses how the persistence and discontinuity of experiences over the past decades may provide insights into the potential future patterns of northern settlement.

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Section: Framing the Researchmentioning

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The Continuing Advance and Retreat of Rural Settlement in the Northern Inland of Sweden

Carson,

Lundmark,

Carson

2020

J North Stud

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“…Bantu-speaking farming and herding communities first colonised the Highveld grasslands around AD 1600, and in a short time left behind thousands of stone-walled ruins (Huffman 2007;Sadr 2020). In the past 30 years, research has focused on linking these stone-walled ruins to ethnographically known cultural groups, and explaining their social, political and economic organisation, as well as their regional interactions (e.g., Maggs 1976a, b;Taylor 1979;Loubser 1985;Huffman 1986Huffman , 2007Mason 1986;Lane 1998;Pistorius 1992Pistorius , 1994Pistorius , 1996Pistorius , 1997Hall 1998;Boeyens 2000Boeyens , 2003Huffman et al 2007;Fredriksen 2007;Anderson 2009;Boeyens & Hall 2009). Here, we focus on two stone-walled compounds in the western foothills of the Suikerbosrand massif, which were designated as Sun Shadow and Boschoek by their excavators (Taylor 1984;Huffman 1986;Hodgson 2019Hodgson , 2021.…”

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Diving into the collections: Analysing two excavated Sotho-Tswana compounds in the Suikerbosrand, Gauteng Province

Hodgson

Sadr

2023

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In this article, we set out to publish the results of extensive excavations conducted in the late 1980s and early 1990s by staff and students of the Archaeology Department, University of the Witwatersrand, at two Late Iron Age stone-walled compounds in the western foothills of the Suikerbosrand massif, near Johannesburg. While these two compounds, Sun Shadow and Boschoek, have been extensively cited in the literature, their data have never been published. Here, we analyse the distribution of their collected artefacts, in conjunction with their field maps, to better understand the spatial organisation of these two Molokwane-style stone-walled compounds. We were also interested to assess the merits of revisiting under-analysed archaeological materials housed in the University of the Witwatersrand’s collections. The results revealed frustrating gaps and shortcomings in the collections, but also shed new light on the social organisation of these settlements. Overall, we feel that the exercise was worthwhile and we encourage similar such studies in the future, allowing researchers to explore the scientific potential of the masses of buried treasure within the university’s collections.

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“…These definitions also include specification of a minimum distance to a larger center, which may be a “hard” definition as with the Australian model (10 or 15 or 20 km depending on the size of the larger center) or a “soft” definition as in Canada (“commuting distance”). It is important to note that small rural does not include the “remote,” which is characterized by extreme distance from service centers and vastly different processes of governance [ 14 ].…”

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Innovation in Rural Health Services Requires Local Actors and Local Action

2022

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Objectives: We examine the role of “local actors” and “local action” (LALA) in health service innovation in high-resource small rural settings and aim to inform debates about the extent to which communities can be empowered to drive change in service design and delivery.Methods: Using an adapted roles and activities framework we analyzed 32 studies of innovation projects in public health, clinical interventions, and service models.Results: Rural communities can investigate, lead, own and sustain innovation projects. However, there is a paucity of research reflecting limited reporting capacity and/or understanding of LALA. Highlighting this lack of evidence strengthens the need for study designs that enable an analysis of LALA.Conclusion: Innovation and community participation in health services are pressing issues in small rural settings where population size and distance from health infrastructure make service delivery challenging. Current reviews of community participation in rural health give little insight into the process of innovation nor understanding of how local actors produce improvements in innovation. This review outlines how communities and institutions can harness the essential role of LALA in supporting health innovations.

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Introduction: settlements at the edge

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

The Continuing Advance and Retreat of Rural Settlement in the Northern Inland of Sweden

The Continuing Advance and Retreat of Rural Settlement in the Northern Inland of Sweden

Diving into the collections: Analysing two excavated Sotho-Tswana compounds in the Suikerbosrand, Gauteng Province

Innovation in Rural Health Services Requires Local Actors and Local Action

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