Is the rural idyll bad for your health? Stigma and exclusion in the English countryside

Watkins, Francine; Jacoby, Ann

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2007.02.002

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“…Some social and economic conditions may be more specific to the context of rural areas (Barnett et al, 2001;Curtis, 2004;Haynes & Gale, 2000), such as lower employment opportunities, lack of affordable housing, and declining availability of public transport, stigma and social exclusion (Parr, Philo, & Burns, 2004;Watkins & Jacoby, 2007), and the lack of accessibility of services and facilities (Niggebrugge, Haynes, Jones, Lovett, & Harvey, 2005;Page et al, 2007). Some of these indicators may not be routinely collected or be captured by readily available composite indices of deprivation, such as the 'Townsend' (Townsend, Phillimore, & Beattie, 1988), the 'Carstairs' (Carstairs & Morris, 1991) and the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 (Noble et al, 2004) which may be more relevant for measuring the socioeconomic context of urban environments.…”

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Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England

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Curtis

Gauvin

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Social Science & Medicine

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Studies of inequalities in health between rural and urban settings have produced mixed and sometimes conflicting results, depending on the national setting of the study, the level of geographic detail used to define rural areas and the health indicators studied. By focusing on morbidity data from a national sample of individuals, this study aims to examine the extent of inequalities in health between urban and rural areas, as well as inequalities in health across rural areas of England. Multilevel analyses for poor self-rated health, overweight and obesity, and common mental disorders are reported for a sample of 30,776 individuals aged 18 years and older (obtained from the Health Survey for England years 2000-2003 combined) and distributed across 3645 small areas classed in four categories: two groups of urban areas (Greater London area or 'other cities') and two types of rural settings (semi-rural areas or villages). Results show that rural dwellers were significantly less likely than residents of urban areas to report their health as being fair or poor and to report common mental disorders, independent of their socio-demographic characteristics. However, as for urban settlements, there were significant variations in health across semi-rural areas and across villages, indicating the presence of health inequalities within rural settings in England. These inequalities were not fully explained by the individual composition of the areas or by the available measures of area socioeconomic conditions, indicating that in rural

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Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England

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Gauvin

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“…More recently, sociologists have become increasingly interested in the interaction between environment and health, as attested by the establishment of a British Sociological Association study group, a one-day conference in 2016, and the papers in this issue. Research has explored the negative health effects of both the urban built environment 4 and the countryside 5 , as well as research on risk behaviour associated with the environment 6 , environmentalism 7 and the health effects of climate change. 8 In this paper our aim is to bring to the attention of a public health audience some recent theoretical developments within sociology that offer a more sophisticated understanding of the relationship between environment, humans and their health, with consequences for sociology, and for public health policy and practice.…”

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Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

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Alldred

2016

Public Health

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Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) eprints@whiterose.ac.uk https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Reuse This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. This licence only allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as you credit the authors, but you can't change the article in any way or use it commercially. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing eprints@whiterose.ac.uk including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach Abstract ObjectivesThis paper reviews the sociology of environment and health, and makes the case for a postanthropocentric approach based on new materialist theory. This perspective fully incorporates humans and their health into 'the environment', and in place of human-centred concerns considers the forces that constrain or enhance environmental capacities. Study designThis is not an empirical study. The paper uses a hypothetical vignette concerning child health and air pollution to explore the new materialist model advocated in the paper. MethodsNot applicable: not an empirical paper ResultsNot applicable: not an empirical paper ConclusionA new materialist and post-anthropocentric sociology of environment and health radically reconfigures both sociological theory and its application to research and associated policies on health and the environment. Theoretically, human health is re-thought as one among a number of capacities emerging from humans interactions with the social and natural world.Practically, the focus of intervention and policy shifts towards fostering social and natural interactions that enhance environmental (and in the process, human) potentiality. This approach to research and policy development has relevance for public health practice and policy.

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“…As the term ‗stigma' is regarded to be -an attribute that is deeply discrediting‖ and an -undesired differentness from what we had anticipated‖ (Goffman, 1963, p. 5), we can infer that the interaction between a stigmatised identity and a normal one (Whitehead et al, 2001;Watkins & Jacoby, 2007) would be contentious. This normal versus stigmatised contention thus intensified the sensitivity and the ethics of my research into CSG.…”

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“…The notion of ‗stigma' originated with Goffman (1963) who describes it as -an attribute that is deeply discrediting‖ (p. 12). Following Goffman, many researchers have explored ‗stigma' both theoretically and empirically to understand why a particular identity is devalued and stigmatised in a society (Crocker & Major, 1989;Watkins & Jacoby, 2007;Whitehead et al, 2001), discriminated against (Link & Phelan, 2001), and invokes power dynamics in the process of stigmatisation (Link & Phelan, 2001;Yang et al, 2007). The literature surrounding…”

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“…He believes that these personal attributes of an identity cause him or her to be described as -less desirable‖ and -not quite human‖ (1963, p. 3-5). In this way, individuals are categorised, labelled, and discounted, to the extent that they are perceived as a reason for the decay of the socio-cultural norms in a particular setting (e.g., Major & O'Brien, 2005;Stafford & Scott, 1986;Watkins & Jacoby, 2007;Whitehead et al, 2001). Secondly, it is also important to question who a stigmatised identity threatens and why--those who do not depart negatively from particular expectations at issue‖; or, in other words, someone who is normal, as defined by Goffman (1963, p. 5).…”

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Coal seam gas development and community conflict: a comparative study of community responses to coal seam gas development in Chinchilla and Tara, Queensland

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The Australian coal seam gas (CSG) industry has grown rapidly from around 1,000 CSG wells in 2009 to more than 6,500 wells in 2014. Exploration and development has occurred in the predominantly agricultural areas of Queensland's Western Downs. The crossover of these two competing industries, agriculture and CSG, has placed the rural west under a great deal of socioeconomic and environmental pressure and led to significant controversy. The rural subdivisions of Tara perceived in the media and simplistically labelled as a conflict driven by the environmental impacts of CSG is far more complex. The root causes of this conflict run deeper. Rather than using an environmental lens, this research rather takes a social identity perspective, which has yielded counterintuitive findings. The study reveals that the conflict dramatically emerged because the CSG industry became enmeshed in the stigmatised identity of ‗Blockies', as the residents of ‗Blocks' within the Tara subdivisions are called. I also elucidate the fact that the stigmatised Blockies' failure to sustain this conflict ultimately led to its transformation. The anti-CSG ‗Blockies' took issue with CSG as a mean to manage, dissolve, and negotiate the stigma attached with the label ‗Blockie' that socially excluded, discriminated, and marked them as devalued since the subdivisions were established in 1980s. Behind the nexus between the Tara subdivision-based anti-CSG groups and the Lock the Gate movement, no shared encoded meanings or objectives exist. The Blockies' convergence with the movement was merely commensal in nature, which thus provided the rejected self with a positive reference point and a moral argument for being evaluated through the movement's identity.iii

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Is the rural idyll bad for your health? Stigma and exclusion in the English countryside

Cited by 55 publications

References 46 publications

Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England

Unravelling the extent of inequalities in health across urban and rural areas: Evidence from a national sample in England

Sociology, environment and health: a materialist approach

Coal seam gas development and community conflict: a comparative study of community responses to coal seam gas development in Chinchilla and Tara, Queensland

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