‘More-than-human’ resilience(s)? Enhancing community in Finnish forest farms

Herman, Agatha

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2015.12.005

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“…Yet, although farming is fundamentally situated at the interface between society and nature, between humans and technology, the materiality of the farm is rarely taken into account. To understand farming fully, it might then be important to find ways to combine social construction with an understanding of the agency of the material world (see e.g., Ferguson et al ; Herman ; Phillips ; Legun and Henry ). This would allow to link farming to a wide variety of forces, including physical interactions, biological processes, social encounters, reflective thoughts, revisited memories, emotional desires, and bodily feelings (see Alaimo and Hekman ; Anderson and Harrison ; Fox and Alldred ).…”

Section: The Conventional Conceptualisations: Farmer and Farm In The mentioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: The Conventional Conceptualisations: Farmer and Farm In The mentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Darnhofer

2020

Sociologia Ruralis

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“…Hence, little attention has been given to the role of what I will refer to in line with broadly as the environment of the market; that is, the totality of relations in which the boundaries of markets are materialized and reproduced. In line with recent developments in cultural geography that highlight the 'morethan-human' aspects of space by questioning the static territorial conceptions underlying modern resource management (Bear 2012, Probyn 2014, Cardwell and Thornton 2015, Boucquey et al 2016, Herman 2016, I therefore shift the attention to the 'fluid spaces' (Bear and Eden 2008) of the sea that tend to ignore human classifications and territorial boundaries in order to further decentralize economic action and capture the contingent situational dynamics underlying economic coping with the environment in modern market economies.…”

Section: Coping With the Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The wrong fish: maneuvering the boundaries of market-based resource management

Dobeson

2018

Journal of Cultural Economy

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How can economic actors stay afloat in a highly volatile market environment? By drawing on ethnographic material from the Icelandic fishing industry, this article demonstrates how fishers maneuver the boundaries of market-based resource management that tend to ignore the ever-changing environment of the sea. The empirical material shows how fishers skillfully manipulate their socio-technical environment in order to adjust the market for so-called Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) with the movement of fish stocks. Accordingly, three coping practices are deployed: (i) tinkering with accounts, (ii) socio-technical conversion, and (iii) redefining boundaries. While these practices allow fishers to stay afloat, they are likewise undermined by the ever-changing environment of the sea, consequently fueling a money-induced cycle of socio-technical problem-solving and breakdowns.ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In discussions at the workshop, the role of an experiential element in enhancing connections emerged, with a physical act demanding a more active enrolment as well as helping to develop a dynamic sense of solidarity and community (Herman 2015, Herman 2016; Kneafesey et al, this issue). The literature is full of examples of community gardens, community farms, allotment associations, and cooking groups but, again, we argue that these need to be understood within the context of people's everyday, lived realities in order to enhance participation.…”

Section: In What Ways Can We Promote and Enhance Connections Within Fmentioning

confidence: 99%