Migration, Acculturation, and Environmental Values: The Case of Mexican Immigrants in Central Iowa

Carter, Eric; Silva, Bianca; Guzmán, Graciela

doi:10.1080/00045608.2012.696231

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“…While rural depopulation throughout the Great Plains in the U.S. and the Canadian Prairies has been a concern since the Great Depression of the 1930s (e.g., McGranahan, Cromartie, and Wojan ), more recent examples of small city growth related to food processing can be found (e.g., Broadway ; Carter, Silva, and Guzmán ). Such processing plants can be a potential benefit to the countryside as farms provide the products for the plants (Maclachlan ; Ramsey and Everitt ), although as the Manitoba case illustrates, such agricultural change can have drawbacks (Novek ; Ramsey, Soldevila, and Vilamou ).…”

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Community Changes and Growth in Small Cities: Resident Perceptions of Growth in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Ramsey¹,

Michalos²,

Eberts³

2016

Growth and Change

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While research on rural depopulation and urbanization to large cities has dominated the literature for decades, small city growth has been largely ignored. Yet, small cities are important to the regional systems in which they are located, including serving as centres to their rural surround. This paper is concerned about growth and change in small cities. Using Brandon, Manitoba as an example, citizen perceptions of a range of specific aspects of city growth are analyzed. The study is based on a household postal survey conducted in May and June 2010 in which 2,500 randomly selected households in Brandon, Manitoba received questionnaires. The results are based on the 518 useable, completed questionnaires that were returned. Differences in perceptions of the pace of change in a range of aspects of development were found based on income, age, educational attainment, employment status, and home ownership. No differences were found based on gender. The paper concludes with comments about how city governments need to be aware of citizen perceptions when pursuing and managing development. The paper also illustrated the importance of citizen perceptions in understanding the pace and direction of change in small cities.

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Community Changes and Growth in Small Cities: Resident Perceptions of Growth in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Ramsey¹,

Michalos²,

Eberts³

2016

Growth and Change

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“…These new dynamics include increased schooling, migration and remittance economies, non-agricultural waged activities, government funded conditional cash transfers [200,201], often coupled with dwindling agricultural subsidies [199], and the presence of conservation funding [202]. All in all, the decline of land-based livelihoods, increased schooling and migration are associated with demographic and cultural change [203] and TEK loss [135,204,205], all of which challenges and reshapes communal governance [206].…”

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Community Forest Management: Evolution and Limitations in Mexican Forest Law, Policy and Practice

Sierra-Huelsz

Fernández

Binnqüist

et al. 2020

Forests

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Community forest management (CFM) is often a field of encounter between knowledge systems, where a conventional forestry blueprint is frequently applied in contexts rich in traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). This is the case in Mexico, a bioculturally diverse country and a reference of community forestry. Based on a review of laws, policies, literature, and empirical examples, we explore technical, epistemological, political, and contextual dimensions associated with the inclusion and exclusion of TEK in CFM in Mexico. Our analysis is composed of three steps: (1) A diachronic analysis of how TEK and associated practices have been considered by federal forest laws and codes (1960–2018), (2) a diachronic analysis of the scope of conventional forestry and its evolution in time and space, and (3) situated examples illustrating the inclusion and exclusion of TEK in CFM. We argue that: (1) Legal recognition of TEK as a concept does not necessarily entail the legal recognition of all traditional management practices; (2) the inclusion of TEK in CFM is heterogeneous across communities, ecosystems, regions, products and historical trajectories; and (3) different traditional practices are not equally integrated in CFM: traditional practices that contradict the spatial segregation of activities (i.e., land sparing) favored by conventional forestry tend to be less easily accepted or ignored by government institutions.

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“…Alternative ways of living with materials have also been revealed through engagement with migrant populations living within the borders of affluent countries -and who often enact a range of (inadvertent) environmentalisms, characterized by frugal and careful resource use. 93 Taking greater stock of Majority World knowledges and practices, in all of the places where they take shape, can provide important insights for how to make things and live with materials differently. An implication is renewed focus on the knowledges and skills of people who make things with care, using materials otherwise rendered waste, in unlikely or overlooked circumstances.…”

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From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: making and playing with plastic-bag footballs

Klocker

Mbenna

Gibson

2017

cultural geographies

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The material recalcitrance of plastic bags -evident in their refusal to decompose and their capacity to evade neat disposal -is a widespread source of environmental concern and frustration. Yet throughout the Majority (developing) World, the incessant materiality of plastic affords boys and young men an opportunity to make footballs (soccer balls) out of waste. Made in situ, plasticbag footballs are uniquely suited to local contexts and landscapes -a resourceful technology assembled from otherwise troublesome materials. Plastic-bag footballs are also fluid: perpetually in-the-making and characterized by diverse states of working order. Insights garnered from discussions with young Tanzanian football-makers and players position plastic-bag footballs against neocolonial discourses of poverty and precarity. Meanwhile attentiveness to the socio-material relations of plastic-bag footballs makes plain that they are not inferior technologies. Plastic-bag footballs invite consideration of how humans live, materially, in the Anthropocene. Plastic bags typify the ecological crises of throwaway consumerism and malignant toxicity. Yet, we ask: could it be that plastic-bag footballs exemplify the material resourcefulness, skill, care for things -and even playfulness -needed to cope with these very crises?. AbstractThe material recalcitrance of plastic bags -evident in their refusal to decompose and their capacity to evade neat disposal -is a widespread source of environmental concern and frustration. Yet throughout the Majority (developing) World, the incessant materiality of plastic affords boys and young men an opportunity to make footballs (soccer balls) out of waste. Made in situ, plastic-bag footballs are uniquely suited to local contexts and landscapes -a resourceful technology assembled from otherwise troublesome materials. Plastic-bag footballs are also fluid: perpetually in-the-making and characterized by diverse states of working order. Insights garnered from discussions with young Tanzanian football-makers and players position plasticbag footballs against neocolonial discourses of poverty and precarity. Meanwhile attentiveness to the socio-material relations of plastic-bag footballs makes plain that they are not inferior technologies. Plastic-bag footballs invite consideration of how humans live, materially, in the Anthropocene. Plastic bags typify the ecological crises of throwaway consumerism and malignant toxicity. Yet, we ask: could it be that plastic-bag footballs exemplify the material resourcefulness, skill, care for things -and even playfulness -needed to cope with these very crises?

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Migration, Acculturation, and Environmental Values: The Case of Mexican Immigrants in Central Iowa

Cited by 52 publications

References 55 publications

Community Changes and Growth in Small Cities: Resident Perceptions of Growth in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Community Changes and Growth in Small Cities: Resident Perceptions of Growth in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Community Forest Management: Evolution and Limitations in Mexican Forest Law, Policy and Practice

From troublesome materials to fluid technologies: making and playing with plastic-bag footballs

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